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Audrey Wilhelmia is a BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts with a specialisation in textiles. Her practice focuses on material exploration, with particular attention to how fabric, surface and construction work together to form textile-based design outcomes.

Audrey has developed strong skills in embroidery, textile development, fabric experimentation, garment construction and sampling. Her approach is grounded in handmaking, with a focus on understanding material behaviour through direct practice. She is also interested in how different materials respond to construction and manipulation. She is confident working with a range of textiles.

Alongside her technical practice, Audrey is interested in cultural exploration, particularly Indonesian culture and traditional craft. She draws inspiration from cultural narratives, local materials and traditional making techniques, and is interested in how these elements can be reinterpreted into contemporary textile and fashion contexts.

Her working process is structured and detail-conscious, with an emphasis on experimentation and gradual refinement. She is comfortable developing work from research through to final textile outcomes, maintaining consistency across the different stages of the making process.

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Forgotten Tide

Exploring surface and texture through hand beading and stingray appliqué.

This collection is inspired by the novel Laut Bercerita by Leila S. Chudori, which tells the story of Indonesian student activists in the 1990s who were abducted and forcibly disappeared during a period of political unrest, with their bodies later thrown into the sea in an attempt to erase their existence. Using the concept of marine decomposition as allegory, the project embodies transformation through material and making.

Forgotten Tide employs hand-making techniques of embroidery, textile development and fabric experimentation in investigation of how materials are constructed, manipulated and reworked. Drawing on Indonesian culture and craft, cultural narratives are reinterpreted within a contemporary textile and fashion context, expressing themes of loss, memory and continuation through the physical qualities of the garments.