CV

Joanna Dyas: Textiles in Practice C.V.

  

Personal Details

Name: Joanna Dyas

Place of Study: Manchester Metropolitan University

Blog Address:  http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6033401544436107748#overview

Qualifications

GCSEs: 
(Buxton Community School) 13 GCSEs grades A* to C including A* in art

Alevels:  
(Lady Manners School)          Textiles – A*

                                                Art, Geography – A

                                                General Studies – C

Foundation Diploma: Distinction from Manchester Metropolitan University

Other work:  Work Experience at Earl Sterndale Primary School: June 2007
                   Work Experience at Buxton Community School Dance Department: June 2009
                   Work Experience with ex-Embroidery student Loretta Harmer
                     Collaboration with MA contemporary dance student Kerry Allsop in Coventry.

Image of collaboration work with Kerry Allsop.

 Artist Statement

Art for me, especially textiles and embroidery, lets me understand the world around me and allows me to express how the things I experience affect me. So far, both hand and machine embroidery have helped me to interpret the inspiration of nature. Geography has always been a passion, so through my work, I love to include this running theme of the natural world. The beauty and intricacy of nature, and it’s ability to overcome mans intervention, even in some cases take over the man made world is a concept I love to bring to people’s attention. Mainly I have fought to use hand, and slow technology techniques allowing me to feel fully part of each process of the work, but more recently digital, especially photography has allowed me to push and experiment with ideas I never could have thought up before.

My work is a commentary on the world, interesting things I find or beauty in unexpected places, made into textiles which people can relate to in any way they wish. As I don’t have a specific area of textiles I am working towards, my embroidery can work into many different outcomes or even be left as an art piece. As we look to the future, resources are becoming scarcer and we are all going to have to be more socially conscious of where we buy clothes and materials, and I take that as a fun challenge; to take something unloved or overlooked and make it beautiful, therefore leaving the world a more beautiful place.

Work made at university based around the theme of rust.

I want my work to have a social conscience, for every person who experiences it to be able to understand and appreciate it. I find textiles such a fun and exciting way to express myself, and art in general is an amazing way to bring people together. It is my goal to use my creativity and skills set in embroidery to be of some help to people. I would love to make a real difference in people’s lives through my passion, and therefore through a way that not a lot of other people can.