At the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025, Avery Chien has achieved a rare distinction—winning awards in two consecutive seasons across two different disciplines, a feat that reflects both range and depth in her creative practice.
In the 2025 Autumn Season, she was awarded the Platinum Prize in Fashion Design for "The Mark She Left", a work praised by the jury for its structure, emotional precision, and mature handling of identity through garment form. Just one season later, in the 2025 Winter Season, she returned with "Sin City", receiving the Gold Prize in Illustration for a stark, line-driven piece inspired by brutalist architecture and human introspection—once again earning unanimous recognition from the jury.
Together, these two award-winning works demonstrate a practice that moves fluently between fashion and illustration, material and mark, structure and story. Chien’s consecutive wins across disciplines highlight not only her technical versatility, but also a consistently strong artistic vision—one that resonated clearly with the jury and positions her as an emerging voice of exceptional promise on the international stage.
Interview
Q: Having received awards in both Fashion Design and Illustration, how do you see the relationship between these two disciplines in your creative practice?
Avery:
Fashion is my identity. Illustration lets me translate emotion and space. Growing up in Taiwan and seeing the world, architecture became my lens. Both disciplines inform each other, one shapes form, the other shapes story.
Q: Compared to your previous award-winning fashion project, what new challenges or freedoms did you experience while working on “Sin City” as an illustration piece?
Avery:
Capturing the melancholy of brutalism in ink was liberating and unforgiving. No fabric, no textures. Just lines and shadows. Every mark mattered to me.
Q: What themes, emotions, or sources of inspiration motivated you in creating both of these works, and how did they shape your artistic decisions?
Avery:
Brutalist architecture speaks to me. Stark, raw, beautiful in its sadness. ‘Sin’ questions who we are beyond labels. These ideas guide my choices, structured in fashion, minimal in illustration, human at the core.
Editor’s Note
Avery Chien’s trajectory across the Future Art & Design Award UK seasons illustrates a rare clarity of voice across mediums. Whether working with fabric or ink, her practice remains anchored in architecture, restraint, and emotional honesty.
From the tactile structure of The Mark She Left to the stripped-down introspection of Sin City, Chien demonstrates how fashion and illustration are not separate languages, but parallel ways of asking the same question: how form can carry memory, and how minimal gestures can hold human depth.
You can read Avery Chien’s interview on her Platinum Prize–winning fashion project “The Mark She Left” here: https://www.wodacc.com/post/where-emotion-meets-fabric-behind-avery-jean-s-award-winning-work-the-mark-she-left
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