Jo's artistic practice focuses on storytelling, history and shared experience.
From an early age, she was fascinated by books. Reading was a great comfort, where she ventured
into a world of escapism. As an adult, she has not lost this fascination with the written word.
She has extensively experimented with traditional tapestry weaving techniques using second-hand
books and monofilament as as alternative medium to the customary wools and threads.
The possibilities of the materials themselves inspire her. Through a process of de- and re-
construction, she creates new structures from aged materials which still contain their original
history.
Jo graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) and MFA in Tapestry.
She exhibited with Craft Scotland at Collect in London (2024), was short-listed for The Cordis
Trust Prize for Woven Tapestry (2021 and 2015), received two Hope Scott Trust Awards (2019 and
2013), granted a Creative Scotland Professional Development Award (2013), and won the Milly and
Benno Schotz Award for best work submitted by a young sculptor at the Royal Glasgow Institute
(2012). She has work held in Apex International Hotels in London, Amateras Foundation in
Bulgaria, University of Aberdeen in Scotland and The Gallery of Szombathelyi in Hungary, as well
as in private collections in UK, France, USA and South Africa.