Our Central Saint Martins BA final year award scholarships have been selected!
We are excited to announce that our scholarships have been awarded to Joe Fearon, Linus Stuben and Isobel Dickens. The scholarship will cover their final year collections, a key step in their creative journey.
Joe Fearon
Shaped by their upbringing in a rural village on the city’s outskirts, Joe’s work reclaims British folklore through a queer lens — where heritage is deconstructed, twisted and adorned.
Their graduate collection, Nowt So Queer as Folk, explores a procession of figures drawn from rural rituals and British Folk Horror — straw dolls, standing stones, fools and sacrificial brides. Exploring the tensions between queerness and rural northern identity, the collection evokes a darkly joyful folk tale draped in raffia, wool, lace and latex. Textile and print become acts of storytelling. Materials are torn, stitched, tangled, crocheted and collaged together to evoke raw, feral beauty. Joe’s work playfully marries the theatrical with the grotesque. Embracing sculptural silhouettes, built from card and wire, pinned and draped gesturally onto the body. Their approach to design carries a sense of humour and a celebration of imperfection—everything is slightly warped and skewed with intent.
Linus Stueben
Linus Stueben is a fashion designer whose work centres on the personification of garments, driven by a desire to create emotional connections between clothing and its wearer—fostering empathy, joy, and a sense of care. This is achieved through a blend of humour and an obsessive attention to detail, giving each piece a character of its own.
Isobel Dickens
Isobel Dickens is a Womenswear designer. Their work explores themes of fragmented memory and the spectral presence of buildings, statues and objects. Their work often references their upbringing in Thanet and its evolving landscape. Isobel often works with found objects and unconventional materials in order to create exaggerated silhouettes and proportions.
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