IntoArt
The Repeat Print Project with IntoArt was developed as a sustained exploration of textile art, individuality, and collaborative making. Over twelve weeks, the programme supported artists with various disabilities to develop individual visual languages, translating personal visions and intuitive mark-making into bold textile designs later realised as printed fabric and garments.
My role as co-coordinator was to help guide a process-led exchange rather than impose direction—creating conditions for experimentation, material risk, and expansion of scale. Each session moved between structure and openness: drawing, deconstruction, recombination, and layered reworking were used to extend image-making into more spatial and textile-based thinking.
What emerged consistently was a distinctive clarity of vision from each artist, shaped through instinct, repetition, and personal rhythm.
The studio process became increasingly technical as works moved toward production. Selected drawings were digitised, refined, and prepared for repeat printing through careful scanning, alignment, and colour separation. Multiple fabric and ink trials were conducted to calibrate saturation, edge retention, and surface behaviour before final printing onto two-metre textile lengths. These were then developed into finished garments, where structure and image were resolved through tailoring.
Exhibitions at LAB E20 and Copeland Gallery presented the final works within a professional context, positioning them within a wider dialogue of contemporary textile practice and print-led design.
Within my own practice, this project deepened an ongoing enquiry into process-led textile art exploring uncertainty—where meaning emerges through iteration, collaboration, and material responsiveness rather than fixed authorship. It reinforced the importance of attentiveness across every stage of making, from gesture to surface to final form.
More broadly, the project reflects a philosophy grounded in inclusion, where difference is not treated as a problem, but as a fundamental part of how creative processes evolve and take shape.
