Artist Info
Philippa Brock
Philippa has 22 years’ experience as a designer, researcher, educator and artist, graduating from Goldsmiths’ College and The Royal College of Art, London. She is also a Lead Researcher in The Textile Futures Research Centre www.tfrc.org.uk . She was awarded The Worshipful Company of Weavers Silver Medal in 2014.
Her practice lies in both hand and digital textiles, materials and structure investigation and investigates making methods within these fields. Known particularly for her 3D engineered digital industrially woven jacquard, her work also includes, researching and developing sustainable textiles, new yarn development prototyping, e-woven textiles, designing seasonal textile trend packages, including for the Taiwan Textile Federation and developing swatches for the international textile industries, both fashion and interiors. She has developed a range of ‘on loom’ finishing process exploring innovative design, yarn and structure combinations.
Clients have included VF Corporation, Taiwan Textile Federation, The Medical Research Council, various fashion and interior companies and in 2014 was awarded the Silver Medal from The Worshipful Company of Weavers for her outstanding contribution to education, industry and research.
Her work from her ‘Self Assembly’ series for the science/art project: ‘Nobel Textiles’ is in the Crafts Council permanent collection, and also her work is in private collections.
Most recently she has exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Montréal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Canada: in group exhibitions at The Fashion Gallery, Hong Kong, The Design Museum, UK, The Shenzhen Modern Art Museum, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China and the Design Museum London.
Her work is featured in many publications and journals and her research/design practice pushes the boundaries of what is possible within the field of textiles by exploring and documenting process as well as the end artefacts.
Philippa is also editor of The Weave Shed, a free community resource site for weavers, with a blog www.theweaveshed.org
