Jo Pierce

Jo Pierce is a member of the ‘Craft Futures Research Cluster’ 2006. She is also the founder of the Collaborative Textile Group ‘Circle’. In September 2006 she was commissioned to do fabric designs for Davina Hawthorne’s Collection ‘Auntie Winnie’s Party’ launched at London Fashion Week, September 2006. Her recent exhibitions include: ‘Can I cut it’ solo installation, Clerkenwell Green Association, for the London Design Festival, Sept 2005; Innovate, Predicate, Fabricate, RSA, The Strand, Feb 2005; and Pulse 2005, Launch Pad, Earls Court, May 2005. Jo Pierce's collections include: Central Saint Martins Archive, work acquired 2004'; and Victoria and Albert Museum Drawings and Print Collection, acquired 2006. Her work has been published in Wallpaper by Lachlan Blackley, Published by Laurence King, September 2006, and in Paper Dolls, Elle Decoration, September 2005.

Jo Pierce’s work is developed to explore the nature of Future Craft and to ‘craft the digital’ in print and pattern production. Through the development of handmade, bespoke fabrics and wallpapers for the interior, the work explores a combination of techniques, which include screen-printing, digital printing, collage, stitch and laser cutting. Individual pieces locate between craft and technology, art and design - to play with and subvert tradition into new formations. Pierce’s developing research direction explores the ability for pattern to facilitate the viewer to interact with their product and to investigate the nature of the product/owner relationship.