Jo Budd

Jo Budd (fl. 1980 -) is an English artist specialising in creating art from textiles. Trained as a Fine Artist her work could be described as Quilt Art, but frequently contains both collage and/or printing.

Jo Budd
Jo Budd in her studio in 2010
Born
Josephine Budd

Norwich
NationalityBritish
EducationNewcastle University
Known forQuilting

Biography

Josephine Budd was born in 1961 in Norwich. She completed her Fine Art education in Newcastle University and began a career in teaching as well as practising her art. She is known for her art work using quilts, collage and printing.[1]

Budd has tackled a number of commissions for notable companies[2] and her work is in a number of collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum,[3] Budd's use of landscape in her work led Edexcel to recommend her as an artist for British Art and Design GCSE students to study in 2010.[4]

Budd lives near the Norfolk and Suffolk border with her partner, Brian Excell. She has one son.

Work
  • Winter/Male – Hanging – 320 x 179 cm
  • Summer/Female – Sewn collage – 170 x 314 cm[3]
gollark: i will place many kittens
gollark: thank you o supreme helloboi
gollark: maybe.
gollark: also there areFARMfor TREEmods
gollark: IRON crates.

References
  1. Jo Budd at Festival of Quilts, 2006 Archived 30 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Celia Eddy, September 2006
  2. "Jo Budd". Samling Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
  3. Winter/Male and Summer/Female, Jo Budd, Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved June 2010
  4. Art & Design Exam paper, Edexcel, 2010. Retrieved June 2010
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