Lisa Thom in Collaboration with Justin Trendall
Lisa Thom is an American designer working in Bangkok. She is a native of the US State of Georgia and has spent the past 20 years in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, New York, Paris and Augsburg, Germany. Lisa holds a doctorate in French literature from Columbia University, where she wrote her thesis on the function of framing in Proust’s descriptions of painting, photography and space.
Lisa Thom learned to sew from a friend in her dorm in Augsburg, during the year she studied 18th century German philosophy of aesthetics on a Fulbright Grant for comparative literature. Since that time, she has learned to make Peranakan kebayas in Singapore and has studied pattern making in Bangkok with Mme Duangdao Thamtrakul, a veteran of the haute couture ateliers at Balmain and other French fashion houses, who has trained many designers.
Lisa is also an avid knitter and embroiderer, and enjoys recreating historical techniques of embroidery, sometimes reverse engineering techniques used in the embroidered clothing and linens collected by her grandmother during her travels in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany and Austria, as well as creating her own styles of stitching.
Lisa Thom will be collaborating with Justin Trendall for the Emerald Couture Spring launching.
Justin Trendall is a contemporary artist who works primarily within the medium of screen printing, using it as a way of transforming his drawings and digital text works into prints, textile collages and large scale installations. His practice also makes extensive use of digital photography, ultra violet light and Lego.
Visually, his work looks to a range of sources for inspiration. Hard edge abstraction, architectural history, calligraphy, information graphics, textile designs and industrial buildings are amongst the most important.
Conceptually his work explores the themes of cultural transformation and return through the construction of imaginary monuments that collapse the present into the past. Central to his research interests is the utopian imagination and its place in the modern world. The cultural histories featured in his work (modern art, music subcultures, visionary architecture and politics) all speak to the idea of a world transformed.
Justin’s research interests include: the relationship between culture and space in the modern world (with a focus on urbanism); utopian tendencies in architecture and urban planning; and the aesthetics of text, information design and abstraction.
Website: sarahcottiergallery.com
Justin Trendall will be collaborating with Lisa Thom for the Emerald Couture Spring launching.
