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Working with museum collections, Hattie is dedicated to untapping authentic and overlooked stories from objects and improving their accessibility to wider audiences.​ Trained as a Design Historian she indulges diverse research interests spanning from the material culture of folk practices, magic and textiles.
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About
Hattie was raised in the numinous and ancient countryside of Wiltshire, appreciating it's mystery and history. In 2018 she attended the foundation course in Art and Design at Kingston School of Art. Specialising in Fashion Design. She developed a profound and insatiable interest in visual research and received a distinction grade.
In 2021 she graduated with a first class honours bachelor's degree in Costume for Performance from London College of Fashion with specialist skills in design, pattern drafting, cutting and technical making skills. She developed innovative design outcomes made up of augmented reality and bespoke craftsmanship, discussing historical persecution of women as witches bridging the past to the future with a hybrid of new and old textures.
She gained a distinction for her thesis "Mystery, Myth and Modernity: Ritual Deposition and Displacement at Sancreed Holy Well, in the Masters of Art course in History of Design at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. With a plethora of administrative experience working in Events, Hattie is now embarking upon a career in museums. She is fascinated by the archive as a source of history and with how individual lives intersect with the apparatus of the state, and how these identities and histories are constructed. Her career aim is to reshape historical narratives to wide audiences using objects to uncover public histories as well as shine new perspectives on traditional and conventional historical accounts.
