Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor

Textile Artist

Joanna — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:51:27 +0000

Textile Artist is a beautifully-designed and valuable new on-line resource for students, graduates and textile aficionados, recently launched at The Knitting and Stitching Show. Joanna is featured in a series of interviews with members of the 62 Group of Textile Artists, currently celebrating their 50th year.
www.textileartist.org

In Discussion with the 62 Group of Textile Artists

Joanna — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:22:32 +0000

Joanna will be chairing Surviving in the Workplace as part of a Symposium organised by the 62 Group of Textile Artists at The Knitting and Stitching Show, Harrogate.

In their 50th anniversary year, members of the 62 Group of Textile Artists, invited artists and curatorial professionals will reflect on their individual and collective practices. The symposium will offer the unusual opportunity to meet and share discussions with a large number of the Group’s artists, as well as giving Group members the chance to meet and interact with their viewers. Six pertinent topics will be discussed in small informal focus groups to encourage interaction.

The Knitting and Stitching Show, Harrogate International Centre
(Hall F – Basement); Saturday 24th November 2012, 1.30-4.30pm.
The event is free, but booking is required.
For more details on the six focus groups: 62 Group

A Thread Runs Through It

Joanna — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:39:24 +0000

‘A Thread Runs Through It’ is a new commission for Airdrie Community Health Centre, east of Glasgow, Scotland. The three large-scale works are sited in the reception and entrance areas, and aim to encapsulate key aspects of Airdrie’s past in bold, abstract compositions that make reference to astronomy, blotting paper, baking and confectionery, linen weaving and ironwork foundries. Screen-printed and stencilled on linen, the imagery is applied in layers, gradually building up and stripping away colour.

62@50, Holden Gallery, Manchester

Joanna — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:44:35 +0000

Joanna has had work selected for ’62@50′, the 50th anniversary exhibition of the 62 Group of Textile Artists at the Holden Gallery in Manchester. Exploring the idea of plotted routes, both internal and external, past and present, Resonance attempts to define patterns that may repeat over generations as well as the personal landscape as it constantly shifts. Painted and screen-printed on linen, the piece comprises 16 separate parts laid out in a grid.

62@50 runs from 16th July – 17th August, 10am – 4pm Monday – Friday.
The private view is on Friday 20th July from 6pm – 8pm

Holden Gallery, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BR

Courses for Summer 2012

Joanna — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:58:51 +0000

Bookings are now being taken for the following dates:

Five-day:
Monday 27th – Friday 31st August – there is one place available

Please see Courses for further details

Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles – 2nd edition out now!

Joanna — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:28:30 +0000

The 2nd edition of the popular Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles has recently been published by A & C Black. Fully revised and updated, and essential reading for both students and practitioners, this comprehensive guide covers all the key processes used in creating dyed and screen-printed fabrics using a range of synthetic dyes. Technical information is presented with clarity and step-by-step instructions are accompanied by new and inspiring images of works by practitioners from around the world.

How to order:
Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles is widely available from booksellers and retails at £19.99. It may be ordered direct from A & C Black, who have an offer price of £15.99 until 31st December 2012; download A & C Black-order form

Alternatively, if you would like a signed copy, it may be ordered direct from the author for £15.99 including postage and packing; please download Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles-order form

Preview ‘Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles’

‘Journeys’, Ormskirk Gallery, Lancashire

Joanna — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:03:03 +0000

‘Journeys’ features the work of fifteen artists across a range of media, all exploring the role of the journey in its broadest sense.

In her current ongoing series, ‘Perpetual Mapping’, Joanna explores the idea of ‘plotted routes’ that link place and time. Examining ideas of boundaries, junctions and intersections, where one thing may start, end, or overlap another, these pieces aim to document the internal mapping of thoughts, as well as external paths taken.

Joanna will be showing two textile wall pieces and a work on paper, which aims to plot the creative process as it unfolds.

‘Journeys’ opens 24th March and runs until 5th May 2012.
More details

Airdrie Community Health Centre Commission

Joanna — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:10:28 +0000

‘A Thread Runs Through It’ is a series of three large-scale works commissioned for a new health centre in Airdrie, Scotland and is part of a wider scheme involving illustrators, graphic designers and sculptors. The abstract compositions on linen draw on Airdrie’s past, reflecting aspects of paper-making, iron-casting, linen weaving and astronomy. Talks and workshops with local community groups will take place as part of the project. The textiles will be situated in the entrance and reception areas of the health centre, due to open to the public in June 2012.

Courses and workshops

Joanna — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:45:57 +0000

As I am currently working on a public commission, the first 5-day course of 2012 will be in the Spring; dates to be confirmed. If you would like to participate in the coming months, please get in touch.
More details here

The Joy of Food, Lund Gallery

Joanna — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:59:45 +0000

Joanna is taking part in ‘The Joy of Food’, a new exhibition opening at the Lund Gallery, Easingwold, North Yorkshire. Featuring work by over thirty artists in a variety of media, she will be showing her large-scale wallhangings on wool and linen, as well as examples from her three ranges of hand-printed table linen, which have a culinary theme.
The preview takes place on Sunday 25th September from 2-4pm; download invitation here:
The Joy of Food preview invite
For further details and opening times, please visit www.lundgallery.co.uk