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Avella, Vianney
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Vianney Avella was a Textile Design student at GSA from 1974, and designed and modelled garments for the 1976, 1977, 1978 fashion shows.She was also the compere at the GSA Fashion which took place at the Contemporary Arts Centre in Sauchiehall Street. She was awarded the Newbery medal in 1978 and went on to do a postgraduate in Theatre Design at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London. She worked as a costume designer for the BBC in the 1980s and 90s and later as a theatre costume designer in The Netherlands. As of January 2018, she is an independent creative consultant and lives the Netherlands. Her father was Alfredo Avella, who taught stained glass and murals at the Murals and Stained Glass department, Design and Crafts Course at GSA in the 1960s and 70s.Vianney is joint curator of the Alfredo Avella stained glass and paintings collection.
Sources: Information provided by Vianney Avella herself; GSA Annual Report 1977-78 GOV/1/10; LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com; International Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042880/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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