This residency will explore the creative potential of machine embroidery in textile arts and crafts. Throughout the residency Jo will be designing and creating the elements we will be using in the workshops, with a focus on using sustainable and recycled materials wherever possible.

Drop in and explore the creative potential of machine embroidery in textile arts and crafts with Artist in Residency Jo Spurrier. Jo is a multi-craftual creator with wide-ranging interests and skills. A fantasy novelist in her day job, she has been passionate about textile arts since childhood and has dabbled in knitting, weaving, sewing, spinning, dyeing as well as hand embroidery and beading. As a person living with chronic illness, her experience as a disabled creator has led her to explore machine embroidery as an adaptive technology to allow her to keep creating despite physical limitations.