Enter Donna Wilson’s World!
11/24/07
Enter Donna Wilson’s world of brightly coloured and somewhat eccentric knitted dolls and textiles if you dare. Be prepared, because you may be eaten by a Cannibdoll, dwarfed by a gigantic doily or bored by a bigheaded boffin. It’s a place where your conceptions of shape and size are toyed with, where you could stretch out on a sea of pompoms, have a picnic with a poodle or get grumpy with a ginger man. Wilson’s work is playful, tactile and bright, inspired by the everyday oddities and deformities of life. She likes to think of each of her creations as a character in her very own wonderland where scale and perception are turned on their head. Donna creates other products including brightly coloured felt rugs, doily placemats and coasters and patterned cushions and blankets.
Donna, aged 29, of Bridge of Marnoch, near Aberchirder, has specialised in knitting since graduating from Aberdeen’s Gray’s School of Art eight years ago. Now already a multiple design competition prize winner, Donna enjoys many leading European design magazines featuring her work. Press publications, media releases (Kate Hare is available here) and many exhibitions around the world certainly contributed to the overwhelming success of her collection. An outstanding creative talent, Donna is now finding herself in a cul-de-sac: On one hand her friendly creatures are extremely popular, on the other Donna ist tied down with the time consuming manual work of knitting, stitching and sewing to meet the huge demand. She now seeks for help to create her collection in order to be able to free some time to perform her true creativity. Donna agrees it would be cheaper to have the dolls produced abroad, but insists they are made in Scotland (Europe) as they would loose their genesis like many a great brands did when their management executives decided to drown them in the Far-Eastern floods of anonymous, heartless mass fabricated goods in order to increase their profits.
We met Donna Wilson almost two years ago when she was exhibiting at the Designer’s Blog during Frankfurt’s Fair Ambiente. Facing her colourful, inspired doll and creature jungle we were really taken with the strangely cute knitted creatures. We immedietely felt the desire to intruduce them to our clientele. Having done so for more than 1.5 years we were always sad to see one after the other go to their new homes.
If you wish to take one home as well, we might let one go. Please enter Donnas world here.
See you, Jo
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