ELLA BOWLY
STUDENT BIO
Ella Bowly is a Brisbane-based emerging fashion designer who grew up in Northern NSW and specialises in illustration, patchwork and graphic print. Ella’s designs draw inspiration from maximalist eclectic styles and the seventies punk movement. She combines painting and unique handmade patchwork that merge fashion textiles with unconventional upcycled materials. Ella creates garments with vivid colour palettes and punk-inspired silhouettes, hardware and texture that playfully explore the cyclical nature of life and themes of birth, transformation and decay.
CONCEPT STATEMENT
‘The Produce Cycle’ revolves around the notion of life as an ever-existing being. It enlightens a sense of hope as we remember how one person’s decay leads to another life’s beginning. Fruit is a recurring symbol, representing vitality, youth, and abundance and when in a state of decay it characterises the inevitable mortality of our presence in the world. Drawing upon the punk attitudes and silhouettes of the seventies, ‘The Produce Cycle’ patches together texture, colour, artisanal craftmanship and digital printing processes into contemporary fashion silhouettes that celebrate the vibrant, fragile and regenerative nature of the cycle of life
