Christine Checinska

Christine Shaw-Checinska is a British womenswear designer and art historian. She is the Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her work considers the relationship between cloth, culture and race.

Christine Checinska
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of London (PhD)
University of the West of England, Bristol (BA, MA)
ThesisColonizin in reverse! The creolised aesthetic of the empire windrush generation. (2010)
WebsiteChristine Checinska

Early life and education

Checinska studied textile design at the University of the West of England in Bristol and graduate with a bachelor's degree in textile design in 1996.[1] She earned a master's degree at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 2002.[2] Checinska moved to Goldsmiths, University of London for her doctoral studies, where she studied the aesthetic of the Windrush generation.[3] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of East London where she established the Clothes, Cloth and Culture group.[4][5] Checinska worked with Iniva (the Institute for International Visual Arts) on several projects, including Cloth & Differences and Social Fabric which explored textiles and social processes.[6][2]

Research and career

Checinska was appointed as a Lecturer in Fashion at Goldsmiths, University of London, and held a joint position at the University of Johannesburg, Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre.[7][8] She has worked as a freelance fashion designer, leading collections for Margaret Howell.[9] Her work considers the relationship between cloth, culture and race; exploring themes such as colonialism and international trade.[10]

In 2016 her show The Arrivants debuted at the University of Johannesburg FADA (Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture) Gallery.[7] The Arrivants considered the intersection of race, culture and fashion, with a particular focus on the role of dress in the negotiation of social borders.[11][12] Later that year, she delivered a TED Talk that explored fashion as everyday activism.[13] During her talk she coined the phrase Craftivist to

In 2020 it was announced that Checinska would become the Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

References
  1. Massey, Anne; Seago, Alex (2017-11-30). Pop Art and Design. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-2620-2.
  2. "Christine". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  3. Hemmings, Jessica (2015-01-15). Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4725-2499-7.
  4. "Checinska Christine". iniva. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  5. Jefferies, Janis; Clark, Hazel; Conroy, Diana Wood (2015-12-17). The Handbook of Textile Culture. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-85785-775-0.
  6. "Christine Checinska". Engage. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  7. "The Arrivants". VIAD. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  8. Q42, Fabrique &. "Women Design : Day 2". Design Museum. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  9. "Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group". iniva. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  10. "Dr. Christine Checinska". Creatives Database. 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  11. Joja, Athi Mongezeleli (2016-09-05). "Two remarkable exhibitions in Joburg". AFRICANAH.ORG. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  12. Checinska, Christine (2018-04-03). "Aesthetics of Blackness? Cloth, Culture, and the African Diasporas". Textile. 16 (2): 118–125. doi:10.1080/14759756.2017.1408938. ISSN 1475-9756. S2CID 192306614.
  13. "Dr Christine Shaw-Checinska". TEDxEastEnd. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
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