About me

Sian Naomi Dorman is a London based Sustainable Costume Designer & Set Installation Artist. Working at a time when sustainability and eco-consciousness is more important than ever. Sian innovatively combines materials such as: disposed fabrics (natural & synthetic), collected plastics & other waste items, vegetables, fruits, and other 'gifts' from nature, which she then melts, bonds, wraps, manipulates, constructs, deconstructs, and moulds, to become three-dimensional 'wearable art' and set installation sculptures. The display of her work, often within performative contexts, challenges traditional gallery or runway methods of presenting art works; instead, her abstract shapes, forms and imagery become individual actors with movement, presence, and a sensory nature to engage with. With a flux between monochrome and vibrant colour schemes, her diverse body of work is compelling, mysterious and fun.
Sian's techniques & drive are strengthened by her time at the University of Arts, London: Chelsea College of Art & Design where she earned a 1st Class Honours BA Textiles degree, and her growing concern to improve the impact of the fashion & textiles industry on the environment. Sian has exhibited her works in a number of London galleries including: the OXO Tower Bargehouse, Stour Space, Morley Gallery & The Ugly Duck. She has been featured in an article in Textiles View Magazine, and her clients include: Les Enfants Terribles, Kraken Rum, Kimatica Studio, Film Writer & Director Naeem Mahmoud, Butoh Dancer Mai Nguyen Tri, Singers Belle Scar, Shunaji and Livia Rita.