British Vogue
Bangkok-born, London-based textile designer Lisa King always knew her Indonesian mother was an avid collector, from kimonos to Japanese crockery and furniture. But after spending six years sorting through her prized possessions following her death, she discovered there was one more surprise.
Emily Chan, Senior Sustainability and Features Editor, British Vogue
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The East London Flower Collective
The collection is dedicated to the early risers; the florists and the gardeners. It's an ode to those who rise with the sun to buy their flowers at markets across the world: from Pak Khlong Talad in Bangkok, to Adderley Street in Cape Town, I have always been inspired by the skill, strength and character of those who create beauty and meaning in their work, often at the expense of hard physical labour. The prints feature mixed media paintings and line drawings from market flowers around the world: orchids from Pak Khlong Talad in Thailand, to the roses of Columbia Road market in London. Futhermore, it is a tribute to the gardeners; their hands that work the soil and the many beautiful gardens around the world such as Kew Gardens, Xochimilco and Le Jardin Majorelle.
Lisa King
Nowness: Seeding Solace
Antonis Hadjimichael exposes the London-based print designer’s process, building abstract floral arrangements as a means of catharsis
For Bangkok-born print artist Lisa King, flowers lie at the heart of her process. Compiled in abstract compositions that later become her prints, her flowers are dissected stem to stigma, or with heads severed, as pools of ink diffuse in the water surrounding them. Arising in her practice as a cathartic response that pays tribute to her late mother, the floral arrangements upon which King’s design work is centered have become a symbol of solace – the act of laying and repeating patterns guiding her in processing her grief.
“Through repeating familiar rituals and deconstructing the act of arranging flowers I’ve found renewal, positivity, and healing at the hardest of times. No one has captured the essence of my process or inspiration quite the way Antonis has.”