Contact & Press
You can contact me here:
unaburke@gmail.com
Sales:
sales@unaburke.com
Info
info@unaburke.com
Website Design:
http://www.benjaminbrown.co.uk
Profiles
http://www.myspace.com/unaburke
http://www.notjustalabel.com/unaburke
http://www.edaab.com/una_burke
http://www.arts.ac.uk/showtime/unaburke
Press
The Guardian
Above Magazine
Trend Hunter
Paintitnoir
ITS #EIGHT Coverage
Awards
Finalist in the IDI Graduate Awards (Institute of Designers in Ireland)
October 2009
Finalist in the Accessories category of ‘ITS #EIGHT’
July 2009
Winner of the Crafts Council of Ireland ‘Future Maker Student Award’
July 2009
Portfolio presented at the British Fashion Council Portfolio Awards, winning 2nd place for LCF
April 2009
Winner of London College of Fashion ‘Off-Catwalk Award’ for Best Design
January 2009
Finalist in the Persil Fashion Awards
March 2003
Winner of the Eilis Kilgallen Award for most promising artist under the age of 25
Aug 2003
Publications
Collection to be featured in a book ‘NEW ON THE CATWALK’, to be launched by ‘daab publishing’
2010
Work to feature in the book ‘Ridiculous Fashion Rules’, written and edited by Anneloes van Gaalen
Oct 2009
Collection featured in ‘Vogue Italia, The Talents Issue’
Sept 2009
Collection featured in the Education supplement of ‘The Guardian’ newspaper
July 14th 2009
Collection featured in Summer 2009 issue of ‘Above Magazine’
June 2009
‘Pigeons and Peacocks’, University of the Arts Magazine
June 2009
Exhibitions
RE.TREAT collection to be the main fashion focus of a photoshoot and short film based in an abandoned diamond mining village in Namibia
October 2009.
This work and my collection will then be exhibited in Zurich, Vienna and then London in late 2009 and early 2010.
The film will be entered in ‘A Shaded View on Fashion Film’ presented by Diane Pernet in Paris in June/July 2010
‘Best of Young Irish Design Exhibition’, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
October 31st 2009 - January 31st 2010
‘Cologne Catwalk’ fashion show as part of ‘ART.FAIR 21’
October 2009
‘Vogue Talents’ dedicated area at Milan Fashion Week
September 2009
Munich Fabric Start and Moda In
September 2009
‘Future Makers Awards Exhibition’ at the National Crafts Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
July 2009
‘V&A Exhibition of Fashion Artefact’ at the ‘Lulu Guinness 20th Anniversary Party’
June 2009
London College of Fashion pop-up gallery Exhibition at Carnaby
February - March 2009
‘MA_STERS’ Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, Trafalgar Square
February 2009
MALL GALLERIES - VIRTUAL TOUR:
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Created a Fashion/Sculptural display for ‘Schoëller’ Austrian Yarn Co. at Pitti Filatti
February 2003


Credits
- Vegetable Tanned Leather, sponsored by Grade Leather, contact: Graham Bird
- Photography: Rebecca Parkes
- Hair & Makeup: Faye Hayward
- Model: Drielle from Premier Models
