Lies Fauconnier - Artisan & designer
Lies Fauconnier is an artisan - designer exploring the possibilities of making of textiles or with textiles.
Her work explores different ways of making, from industrial and manual to digital production. It's an exploration of techniques and production processes but also about exploring her culture and heritage as a Belgian weaver/ textile artisan/ designer.
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A job as a knitwear programmer holds the designer in touch with industrial production processes. Her artistic exploration of weaving, tapestry, embroidery, felting and quilting involves hands-on research to catalyse new ideas. The designer strongly believes in a positive interaction between all these experiences to create new work.
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This results in a ranged body of work that involves artisanal products, conceptual or collectable design objects and probes that suggest new ways of working based on existing processes.
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Education
2017 - now
Handweaving - CVO Gent
2019 - 2021
Textile technology - HoGent
2014 - 2019
Productdesign - Luca School of Arts Genk
Awards & grants
2019
Mia.Award (winner)
2020
Textirama Foundation Award (winner Concept Award)
2019-2021
leerling - meester traject: wandtapijten
2022
BKRK-award SMAAK (selection)
Exhibitions
2017
Illusion (Tongeren)
2019
Exit/19 - Thor park (Genk)
2019
We Are The Next Generation (Kortrijk)
2019
Designing Designers - C-Mine (Genk)
2021
Post Industrial Crafts - Brussels Design September (Brussels)
2021
Opening 'Campus van het vakmanschap' - Bokrijk Museum (Bokrijk)
2022
BKRK-Award SMAAK expo - Bokrijk Museum (Bokrijk)
2022
Super Tactility Soft Technology - Texture Museum (Kortrijk)
Experience
2018
Verilin (industrial weave design intership)
2018
Vakvrouw van morgen (demonstrations in Bokrijk Museum)
2019
Marylène Madou (fashion product development internship)
2021
Cousy (knitwear collection management internship)
2021-now
Cousy (Stoll M1+ Knitwear Programmer)