Lindsay Taylor

After studying printed textiles at the Royal College of Art Taylor worked as a freelance designer and agent before returning to the RCA to study ceramics. Following several years of part-time lecturing she became Head of Printed and Knitted Textiles at The Glasgow School of Art and then oversaw the merger of the two textile courses at GSA, becoming Head of Textiles in 1998. In 2000 she established and became director of the Centre for Advanced Textiles at GSA, a research centre looking into new applications and markets for digital textile printing, funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, with the aim to involve education, research and commerce in a virtuous circle. Research projects developed at the centre included the digital printing of cashmere, applications for digital printing in relation to textile archives, Mackintosh textiles in an international context and the work and educational philosophy of Robert Stewart. Exhibitions in relation to this work have been curated and mounted by Taylor in Glasgow, London, Budapest and Tokyo. External examining has been undertaken at a number of colleges including Loughborough College of Art and Design, Middlesex University, Winchester School of Art, Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins MA, and Goldsmith’s College University of London. Taylor is currently Chair of the Trustees for the London Printworks.

An investigation into the design, production and consumption of Scottish Turkey red textiles, in collaboration with textile historians Liz Arthur and Mary Schoeser, looking in particular at how designs were developed for the home market and the migration of the technology to America with the Quakers. Designs from a little known archive in the Royal Scottish Museum are to be digitally recreated and will be displayed as part of a travelling exhibition, with publication, starting at the Collins Gallery Glasgow in October 2007, supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council.