Meet The Maker

Where did you study and was this experience a pivotal part of your creative journey?
I trained as a weaver at the Winchester School of Art and graduated with a BA (Hons) Fashion/Textiles in 1999. Although I chose weave as my area of specialist study I had not developed a real rapport with the medium and this in fact came later when I felt the pull back to being a maker when I turned 30. What I did gain at University was a way of looking at things that I do not think would have developed had I not has this experience. Read More...

Where did you study and was this experience a pivotal part of your creative journey?
I studied for a B.A. Hons degree in Embroidered and Woven Textiles at Glasgow School of Art and then completed a Master of Philosophy in Public Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. My experience of Glasgow was a of a deep division between Fine Art and Design disciplines; I felt my work crossed this boundary and my experience of wanting to work with other artists with a less defined and ultimately restricting approach, led me into the multi- disciplinary post graduate course. So, yes, the limiting boundaries of my education at GSA were pivotal to my practice in terms of being determined not to be pigeon holed by definitions, but rather to be judged on the quality of my work as an artist. Read More...

Anne Rogers

Where did you study and was this experience a pivotal part of your creative journey?
I first encountered felt making at a one-day workshop with Margaret Docherty at Ruskin Mill. I was captivated by the magic of the process; that a beautiful bag strong enough to carry bricks could be made in just one day from the finest wispy, flyaway wool fibres with just soap and water! And a lot of hard work, of course!
I was inspired to learn more, and took a City and Guilds in Felt making at Gloscat and joined the International Felt makers Association where I met, and worked with, numerous renowned felt makers from across the globe bringing new inspirations and techniques which have fed my creative journey. Read More...

Matthew Harris

When did you first become interested in textiles?

I’m not sure that I could say exactly when I became interested in Textiles. What I can remember is being very excited by the process of dyeing and the potential of colour in cloth on my Foundation course at Hereford. Read More...