Service Shirt (Earley 2018) Disrupting Patterns exhibition, Mistra Future Fashion, London (23-25 November 2018); Futurescan 4, FTC Conference, University of Bolton (23-24 January 2019); Stockholm Fashion District (10-11 June 2019)

Silence Shirt (Long Sleeve) (Earley 2017) Intersections Conference (exhibition), Loughborough University, London (13-15 September 2017)

Silence Shirt (Short Sleeve) (Earley 2017) Shirting Project, 09 London Series, Slovenian Biennale 2017, Mestna Galerija Ljubljana (17 Aug - 17 Sept 2017)

Shavasana Shirt (Earley and Harvey, 2016) FOuR Millbank, 4th Annual Staff Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London

Shanghai Shirt II (Earley & Spurgin, 2015) Textile Toolbox, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York (2015) and Making Circles, Circular Transitions Conference, London (2016)

Shanghai Shirt (Earley & Dodd, 2014) in Green, at The Whitworth Museum and Gallery, Manchester (2015 - 2016)

Redressing Activism Shirt (2014), in Textile Toolbox (London / Glasgow / Copenhagen / Stockholm / New York)

Fractal Shirt (Earley, 2013) Textile Toolbox, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York (2015)

Jabot Shirt, Trash Fashion…Designing Out Waste in the Fashion Industry, London: Science Museum (2010-11)

Template Shirts, reTHINK!: Eco Textiles, Audax Textile Museum in Tilburg (2010-11)

Ever & Again Shirt, Eco Fashion: Going Green, Museum at the Fashion Institute of technology, (MFIT) New York (2010); Ever and Again: Experimental Recycled Textiles, Triangle Gallery, London (2007)

Ten Years of Top 100, Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution, Craftspace, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2009-11)

Twice Upcycled Shirts, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, 3-logy Triennial 2008, Price Tower Arts Centre, Oklahoma, USA (Earley & Goldsworthy, 2008-9); and TechnoThreads, The Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin (2008); TFRG in 2nd Life, animated work in virtual online exhibition (2008)

Heritage Lace Shirts, Evolution/Revolution: The Arts and Crafts in Contemporary Fashion and Textiles, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (2008)

Well Fashioned Shirts. Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK, Crafts Council touring exhibition (2006-07)

Collections. From Waste to Wear, London Fashion Week, Science Museum’s Dana Centre, (2007); Ethical Fashion Show, Paris (2004); Great Expectations: New British Design Stories, British Council, New York (2003)

Boudoir Shirts. Hometime, British Council Exhibition, worldwide tour (catalogue / touring) (2002)

 Museum Acquisitions

Ever & Again Shirt: Museum at the Fashion Institute of technology, New York (MFIT) (2010)

Heritage Lace Shirts: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA (2008)

Peer Reviewed Papers/Articles:

The TEN: A Tool for Narrative Prototypes, (Earley & Politowicz, 2014), Share: Handbook for Artistic Research Education, (p.94-96, see links)

Black Hack Chat, (Earley & Ballie, 2014), The Design Journal. Conference workshop précis

We Shape Our Tools, Then They Shape Us (Politowicz & Earley, 2013), Cumulus, Praxis & Poetics, Northumbria

Upcycling Textiles (Earley, 2011), Towards Sustainability in the Fashion and Textiles Industry Conference, KEA Copenhagen

The New Designers: Working Towards our Eco Fashion Future, (Earley, 2008), Dressing Rooms: Current Perspectives on Fashion and Textiles conference proceedings, Oslo University College, Norway

Transcription:

Upcycling Textiles, published in The Textile Reader by Jessica Hemmings (2012, Berg). Edited transcription from Earley’s 2008 AHRC event at Chelsea. ISBN: 9781847886347

TED’s TEN: Barriers & Limitations, Copenhagen Business School (Earley, 2012)

TED’s TEN: Design Intelligence; Fashion, Parson’s New School, New York (Earley & Politowicz, 2012)

TED’s TEN (Earley, 2011). Avancell Conference, Chalmers, Gothenburg

TED’s TEN (Earley, 2011). Fashion Colloquia event, London Fashion Week. Peer reviewed abstract

Making Time: Top 100 Project Up Close and Personal, keynote. Slow Textiles Conference, Stroud International Textiles Festival (Earley, 2010)

Upcycling Textiles (Earley, 2009), AHRC Japanese Sashiko Textiles symposium, York Museum and Art Gallery, York

Upcycling Fashion & Textiles: Technology, Ethics, Systems and Appropriateness, (Earley, 2008), Materials and Design Exchange (MADE) ‘Textile and Clothing Sustainability’ Symposium, Institute of Mining and Materials & Royal Academy of Engineering, London

Current and Future Perspectives On Practice, (Earley, 2008), Teaching and Learning Forum, Plymouth College of Art and Design

Textiles and the Environment: The Role and Responsibilities of the Textile Designers of the Future, (Earley, 2008), Stroudwater International Textiles Festival, 21st Century Textiles Symposium

The New Designers, (Earley, 2007), Brighton Hove Museum

Enterprise and Innovation, (Earley, 2007), FTC, Nottingham

Sometimes You Just Have To Do It Yourself, (Earley, 2007), Annual Design Conference, Tasmeen Doha, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar

I have given many talks and workshops to industry clients. Please see my main website for more details about these - and contact me there if you are interested in booking me for one. Some transcriptions and slides are available via the TED website.

These short films reveal more about the thinking and making behind the shirts. The TED animations - (written by me and the team, and animated by TED alumnus Ana Diaz of SokFok Studio) - give the overviews for Design for Cyclability and Design to Reduce Water and Energy Impacts. These are two of the key considerations for working with polyester shirts; the Black Hack Chat film is a demonstration of how to use a domestic iron to create a ‘fast refashioned’ shirt at home; the ReDress Miele challenge shows the process using a domestic iron with designers in Hong Kong; the Upcycling Textiles talking head film enables me to explain a little of the thinking; and Kay Politowicz's Professorial Platform lecture (introduced by me), called Design Lifetimes puts my shirts into the broader context of the lifecycle, alongside the work of my colleagues at TED and TFRC. The Taking Time short is a quick view of the shirts in the gallery space...

Book Citations:

Basics Textile Design: Sourcing Ideas: Researching Textures, Colors, Structures, Surfaces and Pattern, Steed & Stevenson, AVA Publishing (2012); Sustainable Luxury Fashion, by Sass Brown, Lawrence King (2010); Digital Textile Design, Melanie Bowles & Ceri Isaac, Laurence King (2009); Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge, Bradley Quinn, Laurence King (2009)

Online Citations:

Nigel’s Weaving Blog (2010); David Report (2008)

Periodicals:

View Point (2010); Fiber Arts (2009); New Scientist (2007)