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Textile Designs by Nina Levett
Nina Levett is currently working on some textiles for curtains. She will present her new fabric collection by the end of 2012. These are the first designs of the new collection. In the next days a video will document the work process involved in creating these patterns.
The themes of this collection are anxiety and fear, but also protection from these feelings. The patterns are more abstract than the last collection. The works are held in black and white enabling to print in several colours, multi-layering the diverse themes.
The pattern above is about things adults are scared of. Violence, prostitution, drugs, terror, aging, anxiety,…. These all are negative aspects of our own lives or someone else’s. This pattern was created as a counterweight to the bright side which is represented by flowers, bulimic models, thin girls, love and laughter (as seen in the first and last pattern).
Believe Liar Installation
Austrian designer Nina Levett creates narrative ornaments for wallpapers and textiles.
In this installation Nina Levett shows a wallpaper that tells the story of a young prostitute who has married a client but finds herself losing her identity. The title is “Believe Liar”. During the day her husband wanders about the city in search of prostitutes instead of going to work whilst she lies at home in bed trying to sleep. Words like “lie, sleep, trust” add the narrative element to the artwork.
The woman is hiding behind the cushion. This is one of the options she has to escape the violence of her relationship.
This is the design for the wallpaper. The background wall is made of 10m x2,5m handprinted fabric.
New ornamental design
Cushions
Handprinted cushions for the “Neurotica” exhibition in the Rudolf Budja Galerie in Salzburg. The buttons were made by the artist Nina Levett out of made porcelain and gold glaze.