Our People
Becky Dodman Wainwright
Lecturer
<p>Becky is a textile and knitwear designer based in Cornwall. Her work combines new technologies with traditional craft to produce thought-provoking knitwear and textile collections. Becky works across fashion and bespoke craft disciplines engaging with each part of the make process to produce psychedelic energetic artworks.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Becky teaches on our BA (Hons) Textile Design course. She has achieved a MA with Distinction in Textile Design. Previously she lectured on the BA (Hons) Fashion Design course for five years. <br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Textile Collections: </strong></p><ul><li>Tasseography for Textile Design 2020 - 2021 (Fine Art Textiles - ongoing)</li><li>Renaissance Moves 2019 Arts Council and Creative Technology Network South West Funded(Embroidery)</li> <li>For the Love 2018-19 (Knitwear)</li> <li>Cats and Flowers 2018 (Art Works for Prints and Cross Stitch)</li> <li>Family 2017-18 (Knitwear)</li> <li>Fuzzy Boobs and Merkins 2017 (Tufted Textiles for Garments)</li> <li>Metamorphosis 2015-2016 Arts Council Funded (Knitwear)</li> <li>Wendell 2013 (Knitwear)</li> <li>Hundertwasser 2012 (Knitwear)</li> <li>Psychedelic Seraphine 2011 (Knitwear)</li></ul><p><strong>Press: </strong><a href="https://www.edelkoort.com/shopping/sample-product/nytm-generation-2020/"><br />New York Talking Textiles</a>, <a href="https://www.selvedge.org/blogs/selvedge/devon-guild-of-craftsmen">Selvedge</a>, Cover Magazine Issue 64, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/7bdapq/rave-knitwear-929">VICE Magazine</a>, Tribe Magazine, Simply Knitting, Knit Now, Herald.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><strong>Writing, Honors, Awards and Residencies </strong><br /></strong></p>
<p>Cultivator Cornwall. Sept 2021 - Ongoing<br />Sub-Text - Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal Article. Sept 2021 <em>Using tasseography to co-design bespoke textile outputs. Arts University Plymouth. UK</em><br />Arts University Plymouth Fab Lab Residency exploring Craft with Digital Technologies. Made@EU Feb 2015<br />Finalist for Knitted Textiles Award 2011, Alexandra Palace, London<br />
International Halls, Harrogate, the Knitting and Stitching Shows, UKHKA<br />
Shortlisted for the Hammerson Fashion Innovation Award at Graduate Fashion Week 2011, Earls Court London<br />
Finalist for Knitwear Designer of the Year Clothes Show Live, 2010, Birmingham NEC<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Grants<br /></strong><br />Tasseography for Textile Design 2020 - 2021: Arts Council Funded.<br />Renaissance Moves 2019: Arts Council Funded and Creative Technology Network South West Funded.<br />
Metamorphosis 2015-2016: Arts Council Funded.<br />
Made@EU Fab Lab Plymouth Residency Feb 2015: Arts University Plymouth and Made@EU Funded.</p>
<p>Becky’s research explores themes of transition, participatory design, and relational aesthetics in art, in addition, Becky explores rhetorical design theory and visual wellbeing with textile art outputs. </p>
<p>Inspired by Henri Mattise, Patrick Heron and textile artist Elenor Stonaker, Becky explores the interplay between relational theory, colour, and performance. </p>
<p>Mediums: Tapestry Weaving, Tufting, Domestic Knitting Machine, Hand-Knit, Crochet, Mixed Media, Textiles, Pattern Cutting, Draping on the Stand, Knit Pattern Development, generative participatory design processes.</p>
<p><strong>Exhibitions<br /></strong><a href="https://indd.adobe.com/view/b038a58a-1a8e-4d96-b98f-861448ed9333"><br />Tasseography Textiles</a>. Ocean Studios, Plymouth. Sept - Oct 2021 <br />Making It. Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, July - Sept 2021<br />Lavish: Stuart House, Liskeard, Cornwall, UK Nov 2017<br />BarrellUp : Studio 102, Vauxhall Street, Plymouth, UK Aug 2016<br />Loop: Studio 102, Vauxhall Street, Plymouth, UK May 2016<br />Metamorphosis (Arts Council Funded, Dom Moore and Arts University Plymouth supported): Lift Gallery, Tavistock Place, Plymouth, UK Jan-Feb 2016<br /></p>