Teaching experience:
Cumbria College of Art and Design, 1990-96.
Glasgow School of Art 1996-to date. Initially working with first year students in the School of Design. More specifically since 2007 in the Department of Fashion & Textiles with responsibility for Y1 Textiles.
Professional Practice:
Jo designs and weaves tapestries, making work for exhibitions and to commission. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since graduating, with work in numerous public and private collections.
Research interest lies in the meeting points between traditional drawing techniques; digital manipulation as a design tool, and the employment of traditional textiles hand-skills as a method of manufacture, specifically the Gobelin tapestry weaving technique.
Interests lie within the arena of embodied knowledge and the interplay between drawing, making, colour and material curiosity.
Past subject matter of qualities and patterns of light and colour are currently being explored in combination with qualities of fluidity – inkiness and brush marks.
Selected galleries:
V&A Museum, London.
Saatchi Gallery, London
Somerset House, London
Barbican, London
Ruthin Gallery, Wales
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Brown Grotta Arts, USA
Selected public collections:
V&A Museum
House of Lords
National Museums of Scotland
Scottish Executive
RVI Hospital, Newcastle
Selected books:
Textiles: The Art of Mankind (Thames & Hudson)
British Textiles: 1700 – t the present (V&A Publications)
Tapestry: A Woven Narrative (Black Dog publications)
BA(Hons) Design - Textiles
Y1 tutor
