Amy Lawrance
Looking at Amy Lawrance's work now, it's hard to imagine the bubblegum brights that rolled off her sewing machine in acid green and Barbie pink during lockdown. Today her pieces are rendered deliberately in the eggshell white of raw silk in sparse, elegantly modular geometry. Barbie though, had a part to play. Fascinated by an old suitcase filled with 1960s dolls’ clothes, and a neighbour's old clothing patterns for children, she began experimenting in lockdown, practising the firsthand construction of cottage industry dressmaking.
“My appreciation for the often overlooked and undervalued
