About

Vivien is a multidisciplinary designer and artist with a strong visual aesthetic that came to London from Germany to follow her dream to fill this world with colourful and bold art.

She specialises in printed textiles with a distinctive focus on bold colours and shapes and the process of layering and combining a breadth of different mediums and techniques on top of one another as well as imitating textures and surfaces.

Vivien’s biggest source of inspiration is her environment; exploring the world through walking. Her practice is about immersing herself into the environment, to experience and interact with the space. She is interested in creating structures and grids, or ‘order’, in her work whilst also capturing the disorganised and imperfect realities of people in their environments. The materials, the sounds, the people: all unpredictable and disruptive in their own ways. Being an illustrator and a painter at heart, Vivien contributes her appreciation for painting, drawing and illustrating with an over all hands on approach in each of her projects.

In 2020 Vivien also became the founder and co-curator of Creating in Crisis. The Instagram online gallery was brought to life to showcase the works of artists and designers of the Royal College of Arts, London, during the global pandemic Covid-19. Since it has been established she has also participated in two of the group exhibitions shown on this digital platform.

Education:

• Royal College of Art, London, 2019-2021

  MA Textile Design, specialziled in Print

• Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 2015-2019

  BA Hons Textile Design, specialziled in Print

• Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 2014-2015

  Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, specialized in Textile Design