Joanna produces a wide range of textiles from architectural commissions to domestic linens.  The theme of memory and home runs through her work with new visual ‘landscapes’ created from altering images of the everyday or commonplace.

She is a graduate of Surrey Institute of Art and Design and a Master of Design from Glasgow School of Art where she is a research lecturer in the Department of Printed Textiles. In 2003 she wrote Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles.

Her commissions have included designing printed velvets and silks for costumes for a production of Hamlet at the National Theatre in London, alter hangings for a chapel at Cambridge City Crematorium, and wall-hangings for Ayr Hospital, New Mater Hospital Belfast and Dalziell House in Motherwell.

She made twelve linen banners for the Music Room at Charles Rennie Mackintoshs House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow re-creating Margaret MacDonald's original designs.

She has exhibited extensively including the 50/50 exhibition at the Opera House in Tel Aviv, Textiles to Hang and to Wear at An Tuireann on the Isle of Skye, Tableclothes at Galeries Handwerk in Munich and Textiles in Context at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

In September 2006 she was commissioned by Northern Print Studio, an open-access facility in Ouseburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to produce a design in formica for the top of their reception desk.  

Her first collection of linens for the home, 'Jellies and Cutlery', is in production and will be available in America through 2Jane.

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