About me

Jo Faulkner is a final year student studying Textile Design at the Glasgow School of Art specialising in Print. Her work is colourful, fun, and illustrative. The most important stage of her work is the drawing process and finding ways to translate these hand drawn qualities to fabric.

Skills

Confident on both Photoshop and illustrator, Pattern cutting and strong sewing skills, Digital and screen printing, Other printing processes such as Pigment, Procion, Flock, Foil, Devore, Discharge, and Dysperse. Acid, disperse, direct, Procion and natural dyeing techniques.

Sector Experience

June 2011-September 2011- Erdem- production intern, September- December 2010: Voyage Decoration-Live Industry Project -Commendation, July 2010-Sept 2010-Tu.Tu.Blu -Production assistant, April 2010-June 2010 Bridge of Weir Leather-live industry design project- First Prize, July 2008- ‘Eve’ Magazine -fashion intern., October 2007: Baxter Fawcett Fashion and Print Design Studio-Production assistant , Other: ‘Artists and Designers in education’ Project, January 2010-April 2010, and December 2011 , Helped higher grade (A Level Equivalent) students with their portfolios and their textile projects.

Awards

- Gillian Purvis Final Year award, - Bridge of weir live leather competition- 1st prize, - Voyage interiors live project- commendation, - Work displayed at ‘100% Design’, - Work featured on design website- Print & Pattern, - HND foundation grade- Distinction, - 3 ‘A’ A-Levels-Art, Textiles and English,, 1 ‘B’ AS Level-Economics, 10 ‘A’ Grade GCSE