Course: BA (Hons) Textiles Design
Graduated: 2024
Brodie Allen is a Dorset-based sustainable printmaker who centres her designs on the beauty, history and nature of the county. Originally from Surrey, she moved to Dorset to study BA (Hons) Textiles Design at AUB. While here, she fell in love with printmaking and a year after graduating began her own printmaking business, Little Oak Prints.
Sustainability is the forefront of the business; Brodie only prints on recycled card and prides herself on being completely plastic free. At AUB, she researched into the amount of waste the textile industry has produced and wanted to create textiles to help combat this. Brodie prints onto thrifted clothing to give them a second life – any clothing unable to be salvaged gets recycled into fabric patches and badges to help reduce textile waste in the UK.
"My one piece of advice would be to just start, and worry about the rest as it comes long. Most people’s products change in their first year of selling as they find out what is popular or something new that they enjoy doing, but no one can buy your work if you don’t put it up for sale."
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