Isle of Mull’s Kirsty Lamont, graduate of Oban High has just wowed the criti cs with her bold knitwear collecti on at the degree show at the Glasgow School of Art held on June 17. Her dramati c graduate collecti on was inspired by both her island upbringing on Mull and the urban landscape of Glasgow. Entanglements was designed to illustrate the contrasts between, and inter-meshing of west coast island life and city living.
Using cutti ng-edge techniques she invented herself, Kirsty has used digital laser-cutti ng and resin-embellishing to create new takes on old traditi onal knitwear patt erns that she researched at the Mull Historical centre and beyond. Kirsty said: ‘Mull and Iona are an intrinsic part of me, wherever I go, and I wanted to celebrate that in new and technically challenging ways.’