Textiles, Indigenous Fashion
Residency Dates: February 2024
Studio H Canada is thrilled to welcome Reggie Harrold, an emerging, Indigenous fashion designer and artist from British Columbia, Canada. Reggie will be continuing work on a fashion collection started while at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta.
I am from the Fort Nelson First Nation in B.C and currently based in Vancouver. My work in fashion design and textiles explores the intersection of traditional Indigenous cultural practices and contemporary fashion. Through this residency, I aim to finish a collection that combines my Indigenous heritage through craftsmanship, modern design, and utilizing sustainable and ethically sourced materials. My goal is to engage with both traditional techniques, such as beading and knitting, and contemporary fashion design, creating pieces that are not only aesthetically compelling but also reflect my indigenous culture.
Through this residency I would like to complete a fashion collection I have been working on starting in 2020 at the John Casablancas International Institute Fashion Design program and continued at my residency in the Banff Center of Arts earlier this year. I will achieve these goals by dedicating time to intensive design work, experimentation with materials, and integrating cultural research both my own and from the local area.
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About the Artist
Reggie Harrold is a contemporary Indigenous artist from the Fort Nelson First Nation located in Northern British Columbia. She is currently based in Vancouver B.C. She has received her Bachelors of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan, a Diploma in fashion design from the John Casablancas Institute in Vancouver as well as a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2023.
Reggie’s artistic practice focuses mainly on the exploration of materiality through textiles as well as photography, fashion design, craft and traditional Indigenous materials such as sinew. She considers the personal, historical and material dimensions of textiles with consideration of her own indigenous heritage which underlines all of her work.
You can learn more about Reggie on her website: https://www.reggieharrold.com/ and follow them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reggieharrold/
The next artist joining Studio H Canada International Residency is Grace Hopkins from Massachusetts, USA in February 2025. Stay Tuned for more information about this artist.
Artists of all media and disciplines are welcome to apply to Studio H Canada International Art Residency – please check out the link here to apply.
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