MA Textile Design

<p dir="ltr">With a passion for art, and interiors, Becky Dodman Wainwright is a multi-disciplinary textile designer and artist with a colourful and bold style. Having worked for over a decade in the textile industry and as a lecturer at Arts University Plymouth, the Devon born designer is creating from a diverse heritage of Chinese and Colombian influence. Her work explores traditional crafts to produce textile collections. She lives and works in the South West of England. </p> <p dir="ltr">Her recent project, Tasseography Textiles, aims to poke fun at the mundanity of tea in our everyday rituals, and how we use tea as a sensory activity to bring our selves together to talk, share experiences and plan for the future. Like her British great grandmother (in rural South Devon) she uses tea leaf readings to subvert the act of tea drinking, exploring spirit, shape and colour with the people around her. Becky has created, a generative participatory design approach that works with people (designers and non-designers alike) to explore their own internal landscapes, and ‘otherness’ as amorphic future Us. This participatory process creates design plans for textile art works. </p> <p dir="ltr">Dodman’s adventurous approach to her methods, incorporate a personable and collaborative style at her core. Taking traditional methods of tapestry, tufting and knit, Dodman transforms these methods which result in her instantly recognisable, fun and vibrant contemporary artworks. Sharing joyfulness is central to her work.</p> <p dir="ltr">Becky is creative with an advanced understanding of technical knit developments (for the domestic knitting machine), tapestry weaving, crochet for 3D forms, and tufting (gun) for rug outputs. </p> <p dir="ltr">Becky works part time at Arts University Plymouth lecturing in the BA Hons Textiles Department. Previously she lectured on the BA Hons Fashion Degree. Her work profile can be seen here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckydodman/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/be...</a>;</p> <p dir="ltr">Link Highlights here: <a href="https://linktr.ee/Beckydodmanwainwright">https://linktr.ee/Beckydodmanw...</a>;</p> <p dir="ltr">Becky’s current project Tasseography Textiles (2021) has been featured in New York’s Talking Textile Magazine, and she was shortlisted and exhibited at the prestigious Making It Exhibition (2021) in the Jubilee Gallery, Devon Guild of Craftsmen at Bovey Tracey, Devon. In addition, her recent, arts council England funded Solo Show will present this project and celebrate the 40 participants of the project at Ocean Studios, Plymouth Sept - Oct 2021 (UK).<br /></p>

<p dir="ltr">Natalia is a sustainable textile researcher who graduated from Arts University Plymouth with an MA in Textile Design in 2022. Originally from Brazil, Natalia credits her cultural heritage as playing a big part in influencing her work and research during her MA journey. </p> <p dir="ltr">During her MA, Natalia participated in the Fabricademy Textile Academy Bootcamp 2022 in Onl’Fait, the Fablab in Geneva, Switzerland, deepening her knowledge of biofabrication, biocouture and circular fashion. The final outcome of Natalia’s MA research was a carnival garment influenced by traditional Brazilian ‘maracatu’ performances, embroidered and embellished with iridescent handmade agar biotextile flowers.<br /></p> <p dir="ltr">Now Natalia forms half of Art University Plymouth's Innovation Fellowship for StudioLab, developing experimental research into the intersection between computation, biology, smart materials, wearables and digital environments.</p>