Victoria Mitchell is Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. She has published papers on various aspects of art, design and textile culture, pursuing an interdisciplinary theoretical approach which focuses on material, making, metaphor and meaning, and is co-editor of The Material Culture of Basketry (Bloomsbury, 2020), for which she wrote on pattern in the context of braiding and dancing.
Dr Sarah Horton is an artist-researcher whose practice includes sculpture, drawing and painting often resulting in site-specific artwork. Her doctorate ‘Decoration: Disrupting the workplace and challenging the work of art’ indicates an ongoing interest in the way pattern, decoration and ornament is used in fine art and in a wider sense to indicate value and identity.
Dr Sarah Horton is an artist and senior lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) where she is also Champion for the Pattern and Chaos research group. She has a BA Hons Visual Arts from Lancaster University, an MA Fine Art from NUA and a practice-based Ph.D. from NUA/UAL. Her art practice includes sculpture, drawing and painting and is largely site-related. Her Ph.D., entitled ‘Decoration: Disrupting the workplace and challenging the work of art’ indicates an ongoing interest in the way pattern, decoration and ornament is used in fine art. She was Learning Co-ordinator for the Norwich leg of the British Art Show 8 and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Victoria Mitchell writes on making, embodiment, metaphor and meaning, often in the context of textile culture. She is a research fellow at Norwich University of the Arts.