conjoin:me is an Art-Fashion research collaboration between Sian-Kate Mooney and Hedley Roberts

Sian-Kate Mooney and Hedley Roberts have conjoined their creative practice to develop a series of art-fashion pieces that explore the relationship between the image, the textile and the conjoined form.
Examining the concepts and themes of cross-linking, engraftment, mirroring, twinning, and the double, they have produced a series of fabric sculptures using pattern-cutting, painting and large-scale digital textile printing.

Working in separate studios, the two artist/designers have developed separate streams of work around the identified themes, each researching, developing and creating within their own methodologies of practice with the aim of 'conjoining' the two separate streams into one unit of work.

Sian-Kate Mooney skm@conjoin.me.uk

Sian-Kate Mooney trained as a Fashion Designer, and is the founder and designer of Grab&Mac fashion label. Sian has shown her collections at London Fashion Week, Trannoi in Paris and ‘British Hotwave’ in Tokyo in 1998 and 1999. Her client base in Tokyo was extensive including Isetan, Barney’s and Agosto.
Her current creative practice extends beyond the body, exploring the boundaries of the silhouette in the creation of sculptural forms that are no longer restrained by the conventions of traditional notions of fashion.

Sian is Programme Leader for MA Fashion at the University of East London.

Hedley Roberts hr@conjoin.me.uk

Hedley Roberts is an artist, and a graduate of both Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. Hedley has presented his work at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Nagoya in 2002 and at various national and international Art Galleries over the past 15 years. More recently his paintings utilise found and appropriated images from movies, magazines, art history and contemporary fashion culture to create personal, intimate psychodynamic narratives.

Hedley is Acting Subject Director for Digital Arts and Visual Communication at the University of East London.