Radvilė Kisieliūtė graduated from A. Martinaitis Art School and trained in Vilnius Arts Academy Open School of Art, Design and Architecture in Lithuania. Later she obtained a BA Fashion Design at University of Bedfordshire and has worked in fashion industry for bespoke and high fashion companies. Alongside her MA in University of Arts London where she gained master’s degree in Costume Design for Performance, she also designed and made costumes for live performances and worked on freelance base projects.
Her strongest interests are in symbolism, paganism, folkloric heritages intertwined with psychological and philosophical underlayings. Her work focuses on textiles and textures manipulation, development, breaking down methods and recycling, which over years became the distinctive style of her creations and supportive expression of her concepts. Radvile enjoys exploring, analysing chosen themes in greater depth and discovering continuation and dialogue between personal interests, research, experimentation and design development throughout creation of meaningful work. Radvilė always tries to find connections by collating chosen theme context with parallel themes to come up with grounded statement and experimental interpretation.
Due to her extensive work experience and education in a lot of different creative fields Radvilė is open for various creative work without limiting her choices and creative thinking.
CV
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF ARTS LONDON | LCF | 2017 09 – 2018 12
MA Costume Design for Performance | Achieved First Class Degree
UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE | School of Art and Design | 2013 09 - 2016 06
BA Fashion Design | Achieved First Class Degree
KAUNAS SAULES GYMNASIUM | Secondary Education | 2010 – 2013
Graduated with Honours Diploma
A. MARTINAITIS ART SCHOOL | Art Diploma | 2007 – 2011
Graduated With 10/10
EXPERIENCE
EGLE THE QUEEN OF SERPENTS 2019 June Directed, realised scenography and costumes for short performance staged at National Kaunas Drama Theatre.
MATERIAL INTERACTION’S RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2019 April – 2019 May Assisting Donatella Barbieri for Prague Quadrennial 2019 workshops preparation – making performative objects.
I LOVED YOU WITHOUT YOU EVEN KNOWING | 2019 April Scenographer | Short performance. Director: Eglė Švedkauskaitė Performance was part of Young Theatre Days Festival 2019
COMPANION SHOP | 2019 April Costume Designer | Short film. Director: Ivy Jelisavac
IF I WOULD JUMP THROUGH THE WINDOW, THEN ONLY SLOW FOXTROT | 2019 April | Scenographer | Short performance. Director: Yasen Vasilev Performance was part of Young Theatre Days Festival 2019
LA PETITE MORT | 2019 March Costume Designer | Short film. Director: Jack Salvadori
JOVIS BON HOVIS | 2019 March Commission of costume for lead character | TV show for children
EGLE THE QUEEN OF SERPENTS | 2018 September – 2018 December Costume Designer and Maker, Concept Realisation | Performed at Sadler’s Wells Theatre | MA Final Project
THE ANTHROPOCENE BODY – PLUMIAL SPACE | 2018 August – 2018 September Fashion Artefacts / Prototypes Producer – Constructor | Part of the London Design Festival 2018
EAST WALL | 2018 Feb – 2018 September Assistant Costume Designer | Directed by: Hofesh Shechter ★★★★★ The Guardian
AUDIMAS | 2017 August – 2017 September Print Design Intern | Collection Research and Development Department
FASHIONIZER | 2016 Oct – 2017 June Production and Fashion Support Assistant | Assisting Product Manager/ Fabrics and Materials Buyer and Design Department
LULU LIU | 2015 September Design Studio Intern | Backstage Head Dresser at London Fashion Week SS2016
MARY KATRANTZOU | 2015 Jan – 2015 Feb Studio Intern | Backstage Dresser at London Fashion Week AW2015