A&D ANNUAL 2021

Maegan Mills

Maegan Mills is a creative who is passionate about the maker's practice and the grounding sense the approach brings. She appreciates a slow-paced process as a departure from its complete reversal of the overproduced, fast-paced production of the textiles industry. Expanding on her practice in graphics and textile design, her recent work 'Public Threads' is a design-led initiative to transform the wasteful nature of the fashion industry and reclaim waste. Her project focuses on the concept of how we can divert the amount of waste ending up in landfills and actively shift consumers' wasteful mindset towards one that values sustainable and conscious principles. At its core, 'Public Threads' is a community workshop program, which reclaims and recycles textiles waste into felted blankets. By making and using sustainable yarn from ecological wool, 'Public Threads' combines post-consumer textiles waste with the slow maker's practice of wet felting, with a core motivation to integrate education and innovation into the community. The 'Public Threads' project is an antidote to our demanding and overproduced lives, which doesn't cost our planet.