Stephanie Wooster MSDC

Stitched & Constructed Textiles

About Stephanie
Stephanie is a textile Designer Maker working with a mix of materials and processes.
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Stephanie explores the tactile properties of things. Based in a textile approach she has included, knit, crochet, sublimation and screen print, eco dying, hand and digital embroidery, beading, laser cutting, sand-blasting, gunpowder drawings and moving image. Working with a range of traditional processes that employ the hand is important, using these low and high-tech processes to concentrate on the haptic dimension of the man-made world around us. The comforting and binding nature of the hand-made fixes her work to a person, time and place. Occasionally pictorial mostly portraying a feeling, emotion and texture.

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Selected Exhibitions and Shows

2019 Crossing Boundaries, Centrespace, Bristol

2019 iD-artists, ACE arts, Somerton

2019 reformation, Bishops Palace, Wells

2019 iD-artists new work @ Heritage Courtyard Gallery, Wells

2018 transformations, Bristol Guild

2017 Underpinning, 44AD, Bath

2017 Stephanie Wooster, West Country Quilt and Textile Show, Bristol

2017 iD-artists, Old Town Quarry, Weston super Mare

2016 New Worke, Newark Park National Trust, Gloucestershire

2015 Hatch Archive Project, RWA, Bristol.

2015 inside out, Nature in Art.

2015 ...and thereby hangs a tale, Centrespace, Bristol

2014 things with wings Heartspace Studios, Bristol

2014 In Passing Ashton Court Mansion, Bristol

2013 Horizons Sidcot Arts Centre, North Somerset

2011 Origin: The Contemporary Craft Fair Old Spitalfields Market, London.

2011 Mending at the Museum Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

Conference and Seminar papers

2019 Make and Think Futurescan4 The Association of Fashion and Textile Courses Bolton University

2013 experiential design: a personal experience, VCRG symposium, Bristol

2013 Why do we still knit? Making futures conference. Plymouth

Memberships

iD artists (interdisciplinary exhibiting group, chair)

Brunel Broderers (exhibiting contemporary textile group)

Make and Think research group

Hatch research group

The Visual Culture Research Group

Education

2011 MA Design by Project (Distinction) ‘The haptics of textiles’.

University of the West of England, Bristol

1989 BA (Hons) Textile Design specialising in knit

Winchester School of Art

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