Clare Calveley BA, MA, PGCE

Lecturer
Textiles in Practice

Clare Calveley is a Digital and Virtual Textile Artist and Lecturer at Manchester School of Art on the BA (Hons) Textiles in Practice programme. Her qualifications in Textiles and Graphic Design explore a multi-disciplinary approach to commissions and client projects.

Clare is a Fellow of the Teaching Academy. As an educator, she can draw on a very broad range of digital and material skills, with a wide contextual understanding both within the creative industries (especially in Textiles, Fashion and Graphics) and the wider art world. Clare's commitment to teaching and learning is impeccable, alongside her innovative input on the course in the printed textiles area.

Clare's research explores the use of colour, pattern and cloth as a flexible medium, the intersection between physical and virtual space, the communication of tangibility and the haptic in their virtual space, and how traditional analogue textile skills and processes inform innovative and sustainable methods of production.

Clare is an ECR member of the UCRKE Design and Craft: Making and Materiality Research Group at MMU which seeks to explore materials and creative solutions within design. The research is specifically towards textile design, which is based on the history of textile production and design research. The faculty seeks to support research that interrogates creative agency of material practices based on expertise and skill in subject areas. It looks at design as an applied practice that can be used to work collaboratively with external partners for specific solutions.

Member of the The Largest British Fashion & Textile Network
www.ukft.org

Member of the Arts Emergency Mentoring Body
www.arts-emergency.org

Member of the Future Fashion Factory
www.futurefashionfactory.org