Year 10 Textiles Artist Workshop

Year 10 Textile students worked alongside Artist Emily Jo Gibbs, for an inspiring and mindful textiles workshop. Emily came into school and kindly shared her experiences as a practising textile artist. She talked about her influences, going to university and the twists and turns her career has taken since designing and making decorative evening bags for clients worldwide.

Emily teaches and currently creates hand-stitched portraits and still lifes with a  graphic quality. She has just completed a yearlong artist’s residency at Trinity Buoy Wharf. Emily has received significant critical acclaim and examples of her work are in The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Crafts Council Collection and The Museum of Fine Art, Houston. She is a member of Contemporary Applied Arts, The 62 Group of Textile Artists, and the Artworkers Guild.

Emily has developed a beautiful and delicate technique using layers of silk organza and hand applique. The workshop centred around this technique; Emily shared this technique, her knowledge and her love of textiles with our students.

This is what the students had to say ...

It was amazing to meet an artist who has a successful career in textile art. I learnt an exciting new technique that I can apply to my coursework – Betty

It was a lovely experience, and I learnt a new applique technique - Hailey

It was a very interesting and enjoyable experience; I will be using this technique in my own work in the future – Iris

The workshop was fun, and I hope we can do another workshop with Emily as she was friendly, and hand stitching is relaxing - Hajrah and Hanifa

The workshop not only aimed to increase students’ appliquéing skills, but more importantly to inspire our future textiles artists, thank you Emily, it certainly did!

Ms. Healy
Textiles Teacher