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Amy Houghton welcomed as Textile Artist-in-Residence in School of Art & Design

20th November 2009

Amy Houghton, a professional artist based in the southwest region of the UK, has taken up the role of Textile Artist-in-Residence for the School of Art & Design at Bath Spa University. Her work currently uses animation, video and porcelain to explore the hidden and revealed histories and stories related to old textiles and photographs placed in the context of our lives in the present.

Amy has trained in Textiles and Surface Pattern Design and Multi Media Textiles and completed her Masters degree in textiles at Goldsmiths University.  She has shown her work widely in regional, national and international exhibitions since 2000 and regularly undertakes commissions and residencies.

As a project leader of commissions, residencies, exhibitions, arts management and education, Amy offers considerable experience and enthusiasm in innovative arts education practice. Curation and arts management are important elements in Amy’s career and she is currently working as the Coordinator for the Textile Forum South West.

Amy’s practice involves exploring how we use and read antique textiles and photographs as stimuli for nostalgic longing, as indicators of our authenticity and as a tool to search for origin and as a connection to reality.  Her work involves pseudo forensic and archaeological processes to examine and reanimate, through stop frame and video animation, the textiles and photographs she has collected in an attempt to get them to unravel and reveal their stories and bring them to life.

Amy Houghton Image

Amy Houghton Image

For reference

This initiative has been funded by the Knowledge Escalator project, which is part financed by the European Union's ERDF Competitiveness and Employment Programme 2007-13 securing £1,833,000 of ERDF investment through the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA).

ERDF

ERDF

SWRDA

SWRDA