Scholars & Artists – Page 3 – Sarabande Foundation

Emanuel Dawit

Central Saint Martins BA Fashion Design Emanuel Dawit is the Sarabande BA Fashion Design Scholar for 2025/26. His work explores the formation of adolescent identities in cities, articulating the realities of navigating manifold pressures. He is interested in the emergence of...

Jingyi Li

Jingyi Li is a artist whose work interlaces feminist narratives, material culture, and soft forms. Lace-making is central to her practice, transforming traditional forms into sculptural and domestic objects to examine female desire, submission, and BDSM dynamics. Using auto-ethnographic approaches,...

Sinéad O Dwyer

Sinéad O’Dwyer is a London-based womenswear brand, founded in 2021, aesthetically characterised by a tension between a soft sensuality and an imposing toughness. The narratives of the brand are emotionally driven and personal, these stories are given further depth through projects...

Philip Pope

Philip Pope is a jeweller specialising in enamelling, drawn to the unique qualities of fired glass as a medium for reflecting the forms and colours of the natural world. His practice is informed by the stillness and wild beauty of...

Helena Palmeira

Helena Palmeira is a Brazilian artist and designer whose practice explores materiality as a carrier of memory. Helena creates sculptural jewellery pieces that integrate historically and culturally significant materials, such as Amazonian seeds, native woods, and precious stones, to preserve...