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This autumn, process takes over the Lethaby Gallery, turning the focus towards the experiments, wrong turns, research, conversations and unexpected discoveries that shape creative practice.

Showcasing work by recent graduates spanning art, design and performance, Process explores not only final outcomes, but the often-spontaneous and unexpected ways of getting there.

📍 @lethabygallery, Central Saint Martins
📅 16 September - 25 October 2026
🎟 Free, just drop in

Wednesday-Friday: 11am-6pm
Saturday-Sunday: 12-5pm

Congratulations to the JTM graduates exhibiting:
Xi Li, @materialfutures
Audrey Levy, @mabiodesign
Scarlett Beales-Guy, @materialfutures
Francesca Reynolds, @csm_ba_textile_design
Lila McRae, @csm_ba_textile_design
Ernest Wong, @mabiodesign

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Last night the @csm_ba_textile_design show opened. It features an incredible array of textile work from woven paper vessels, wooden totems, the finest organza weaves, knitted puppets, natural dyeing and so much more.

Spent the last week curating and hanging the amazing work from the 2026 graduates, alongside @dereklawlorofficial and @deborah_peasgood

Shows up till Sunday 21st. Don’t miss it.

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Francesca Reynolds

A Series of Totemic Objects

Francesca is a multidisciplinary designer using found and local materials as central to concept, form, and scale.

Exploring the potential of wood using surface patterning, natural dye, and woodwork processes centres ‘A Series of Totemic Objects’. Her process-rich practise then combines these methods with form extracted from her primary research source, the Berkshire woodland. The project is called ‘A Series of Totemic Objects’, product of which is eight totems, a table, and an artist book, creating a body of work situated as conceptual product, with applications to furniture and set design.

@cescareynolds

#csmtextiles #csm26 #graduatecollection #csmprint

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Thanks everyone who attended and participated in our open studios on Wednesday!
It’s been a super intense and mad term for everyone… congrats all for producing such amazing work and coming together in the end to showcase it!
And special thanks to the student reps who helped to organise and set up the exhibition space.. big up you lot❤️

Over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring a range of student print projects on this page, so watch this space.

Welcome to Class of 2026 Textile Print 💋💋💋💋

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Work in progress

Big thank you to @cescareynolds for helping me print with enormous screens this week and create some satisfying checks!

Preparing for my solo gallery at the Knitting and Stitching Show in October and November.

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m i c r o hobby summer!!!

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can’t take the home out of oklahoma!

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Walk🚶talk🗣️ stand🧍see🙈

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Know Your Creatives #10 🟡🔵🟡🔵

FRANCESCA REYNOLDS
‘I like to be efficient, above all.
My practise is always efficient. I don’t believe in wasted time. If I am working, I am really working. However, if I am having lunch. I am quite frankly having lunch. Because I am a woman, I can also multitask (sometimes). The efficiency I embody takes shape in a few ways.
Firstly, the material choice.
If I can find it on the floor, in a scrap bin, in a pile of rubbish or on the street, then that suits me. There are more than enough materials around, and so many leftovers. Resourcefulness doesn’t hinder the way I create, instead it inspires me. No white paper around? The project suddenly becomes purple. This is playful and refreshing. Sometimes even unexpected.
Secondly, the creative process.
Boiling down is important in my work. A constant spring clean is in progress, attempting to understand the relevant and irrelevant creations and streamline all these iterations into considered outcomes. I create a lot and reflect on it critically. Although it may not seem so, this is playful. I puzzle, rearrange, and enquire. Mechanical pattern making and abstracting linear data are process stages I often utilise. Efficiency does not extend to perfection. I often fail and I often make mistakes. That makes my work better.
Above all, I love creating. I am a maker.’

@cescareynolds
@csm_ba_textile_design @jtm_csm @csm_news

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Editing: @_samritiii

#knowyourcreatives #textiles #weaving #dyeing #knitting #printmaking #printing #beading

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• Year 2 Materials for Change Project •

As a designer you have a great opportunity to be at the forefront of making change. The way in which you design, can influence the way in which we live, consume, use and dispose of materials and products. There are many challenges within today’s society for design to address, be it environmental, social or well-being related. In this project students were asked to research and identify a challenge which could be addressed through textiles.

What is wrong with textiles today? How can textiles improve the world and not destroy it? Designers are now getting together in multi-disciplinary practices, combining high tech ‘smart’ methods with slow craft to find new ways of designing, seeking to solve problems and responding to challenges.

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1. Sophie Grindlay
2. Ellen Earls
3. Siqi Lu
4. Francesca Reynolds
5. Ezra Armstrong
6. Sofia Ilczenko
7. Khushi Marwaha
8. Sumaya Ali
9. Issabella Mills

#materialsforchange #textiledesign #weave #print #knit #craftsmanship #regenertivedesign #sustainability

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