Ivone Jung do Amaral
Ivone Jung do Amaral is a Portuguese-Korean textile designer dedicated to exploring innovative mediums and materials in her projects. At the core of her practice is a profound commitment to sustainability, specifically through the upcycling of clothing and discarded materials. For her Final Major Project, she is questioning herself as a creative practitioner and how she can protest the issue of pollution in her work by creating a textile from waste materials.
Next year, whilst studying a bachelor’s in Textile Design at Central Saint Martins, Ivone intends to deepen her research into regenerative biomaterials. Additionally, she aims to build technical confidence and precision in structural techniques such as knitting and weaving to further elevate her sustainable design methodology.
How Can I As A Creative Practitioner Protest The Issue Of Pollution In My Work? – Here are some samples from Amaral's current project, where they looked at manipulating the plastic and how they could create shapes from it by stitching and pleating.
How Can I As A Creative Practitioner Protest The Issue Of Pollution In My Work? – These are some more samples from the same project, however here Amaral looked more at weaving plastic and using iron-on bonding to stick the plastic onto fabric. As well as this, they also explored metal manipulation and weaving deconstructed cans together.
How Can I As A Creative Practitioner Protest The Issue Of Pollution In My Work? – This is the Cookbook shoot created in the photography studio.