6. Previous Recipients

Student Bursary Award Winner 2006

The Student Bursary was awarded to Patrick Ruaraidh Hunter.

Rory (as he prefers to be called) has just completed the first year of his two year MA History of Dress course at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Research for his dissertation is on "Displays of masculinity in clothing as depicted in fashion photography and fashion advertising".

See Rory's report on the Winchester symposium.

Patterns Of Fashion Award Winner 2006

We were very pleased to have received nine applications from seven different colleges for The Patterns of Fashion Award. This now requires a reconstruction of a garment from a pattern in one of the Janet Arnold Patterns of Fashion books. Three finalists, whose work was of a very high standard, were selected by the education sub-committee. The delegates at the symposium were asked to vote for the winner. Sophie Howard obtained the most votes for her beautiful 1901 reception dress. Sophie has just completed her third and final year of the BA Hons programme in Costume Interpretation at Wimbledon School of Art. The other two finalists were second year students on the Theatre Design-Costume BA Hons programme at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Student Bursary Award Winner 2005

This award was given to Hana Sampson who had just completed her 2nd year BA (Hons) Ceramics course at Bath Spa University and is embarking on her dissertation in which she will address the relationship between ceramics, fashion, the body and jewellery. This is also the core of her studio practise.

"My latest piece of work had the feel of a simplified 1920s flapper dress. However, on closer inspection one realises that the dress is in fact covered in several hundreds of disembodied fingers, portraying a much more vulnerable and sinister feel to the onlooker and raising some unanswerable questions such as whose fingers were these? And what are they touching? They are in fact my own slip-cast fingers made from semi-porcelain which were then reduction glazed using pale whites and greys to emphasize the ghostly nature of the subject."

See Hana's report for the Ruby Symposium.

Student Bursary Award Winners 2004

It was decided that two bursaries should be awarded in 2004. These went to Lara Rayburn and Rosy Aindow. They both were able to attend the symposium held in Leicester - ‘Sighs and Whispers: the underpinnings of the fashionable’

Rosy Aindow is researching her PhD thesis at Nottingham University. It is concerned with ‘the signifying power of clothing in the late 19th and early 20th century fiction, specifically that of underclothing’. Lara Rayburn was an MA student at the Courtauld Institute, whose thesis title is ‘Tightening Technology: The advancements of corset construction in the latter half of the C19th.’