Maja Johansson: Woven Textile Design
I first discovered Maja Johansson's work on the Royal College of Art website. Maja graduated from the RCA in 2012 after specialising in woven textile design. I have found her work to be very inspiring, both the innovative nature of how she creates her pieces, as well as the pieces themselves. Something that I really like is her quote," A sophisticated result through an experimental approach" which guides her in order to produce her samples. Corresponding to my own work, it is easy to acknowledge her appreciation of the use of strong colours which I feel is something I can relate to as I love to work with bold and brave colour choices. The element I found most interesting is that she combines unlikely materials and yarns, and creates new surfaces which are completely original. In my future collections, I would like to consider taking a similar approach and become more experimental with my yarn choices and approach to weaving in general. In the past, it has been my experimental samples which have always worked best.
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| Maja Johansson | Samples from her final collection at the Royal College of Art 2012 |
Seeing her work made me realise that I need to push myself in a similar direction in order to progress, and consider making my own yarns to weave with again, and being more experimental.
The context of Maja's work is for high end womenswear, which I think is evident through the photographs of her collection below, because of this, her work is useful for me to look at as it is aimed at a context similar to my own practice.
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| Maja Johansson | Samples from her final collection at the Royal College of Art 2012 |
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