Cosmic Costumes with Zephyr Liddell
Join designer Zephyr Liddell to explore interstellar textiles, costume making and augmented reality during the Hebridean Dark Skies Festival. We’ll print on fabric using a range of speciality inks and create wearable artworks inspired by the worlds of science fiction and phosphorescent creatures. Using live cameras and 3D models, we’ll then walk a virtual runway for our futuristic fashions.
10am – 5pm, Saturday 11th March
Grinneabhat, Bragar
Ages 14 - 25
Free, booking required
About Zephyr
Zephyr Liddell is a designer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Zephyr works with textiles, fashion and live performance using both traditional and digital techniques. Her work involves finding innovative ways to dress and fabricate with materials, making space for movement and decorating space, using a craft-based and design-led practice.
Zephyr’s multidisciplinary approach sees her textile pieces investigate a symbiotic relationship between materials and somatic practices. Traditional and contemporary craft techniques are used, exploring interactions between social history, graphics, landscapes and the body. Researching and practising ways to create sustainably, through photographic research, unique drawing processes and collage, she creates large-scale textile works, period costumes and installations for exhibition and performance.
Having worked at People Tree, Eley Kishimoto and Glasgow Print Studio, Zephyr graduated BA Printed Textile Design in 2011, after which she co-produced within the critically acclaimed arts collective 85A producing large scale site-specific immersive theatre. Zephyr gained her Masters of Design in Fashion & Textiles from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018. Her costume work can be seen in productions including The National Trust Scotland Urlar, Amethyst and Every Map Has A Scale at Scottish Dance Theatre and Grin by Mele Broomes. Zephyr is currently working for the Creative Learning Dept at the Citizens Theatre and as a Costume Supervisor for a new piece of musical theatre.
