SCAF Emerging Artists 2022 Exhibition Catalogue

JANE CLAIRE WILSON
Thirsk-based textile artist
Jane's background is in Early Years Education as a Teacher and
Advisor. Throughout this career she actively promoted creativity
in the classroom and ran after school art clubs and activities.
She has always attended community based evening classes and
workshops in order to learn new skills and often shared her own
skills with youth groups
In 2015 Jane attended an Access to Art and Design Course at
York College where she was introduced to a wide range of
media as well the processes of research and experimentation
in order to create a final piece of art. She realised that my life
long interest in creating textile based work was a contemporary
art form she could explore further. The positive experience also
provided her with the confidence to change careers. She began
to teach more art groups, for example devising and facilitating
a year long programme of art workshops for children with
disabilities.
By 2018 Jane realised that she was keen to develop her artistic
practice further and enrolled for an MA in Creative Practice at
Leeds Arts University where she researched how creating a
sense of place in a creative practice engages audiences and
makers in social, political and global discussions.
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