Staff
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Sandra Wilson BA hons MA PG - Cert - Area Coordinator for Sewing, Knit and Digital Embroidery.I work part time, 4 days/ week, Monday am (from home) Tuesday till 7pm, Wednesday am, Thursday & Friday.
An instructor at UWE for 20 years now, I am an experienced garment technician. With a degree in Fashion/Textiles, a Masters in Fashion Culture and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Innovative Pattern Cutting (Central St Martins) my depth of knowledge and skills are creative and expansive. I worked freelance in Theatre, Film and Television for 7 years with roles that included; Pattern cutting and making costumes for Bristol Old Vic theatre. Wardrobe supervisor for Ben Elton's 'Popcorn' the National Theatre tour and costume and makeup designer for the BBC mini series ' Lost in France'. Heading the team of experienced technical instructors i maintain and oversee all the activity and machinery in the 4th floor workshop areas. I am a specialist in Wilcom Digital embroidery and am proud to have been part of the technical teams "MENDtalks online darning workshop" during lockdown. |
Ruth Squires (Peg) BA Hons - Senior Technical Instructor
4 days/week - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 9 - 4.30. Peg is a highly skilled garment technician and machinist and runs her own mending and alterations business. 'Peg's Alterations'. Extremely practical Peg is highly skilled at working out how to make all your most complicated designs so that they look their best inside and out.
4 days/week - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 9 - 4.30. Peg is a highly skilled garment technician and machinist and runs her own mending and alterations business. 'Peg's Alterations'. Extremely practical Peg is highly skilled at working out how to make all your most complicated designs so that they look their best inside and out.
Alison Stephenson. (Bod) BA Hons - Senior Technical Instructor
2 days/week - Monday & Friday. 9.30 - 5.30pm
Bod is a part time Technical Instructor with a huge range of diverse skills. She has been making shoes and leather accessories for over twenty years (trained at Cordwainers' College in London) and also makes costumes and props for science centres including At Bristol, Birmingham ThinkTank and Glasgow Science Centre. She has freelanced on many commissions, but most recently has been working in textile-based Product Design (Trunki, Thread Design, RealiseDesign). A meticulous seamstress, her specialist areas are fine fabrics (silks and chiffons), leather, latex/plastic and anything really detailed and fiddly.
2 days/week - Monday & Friday. 9.30 - 5.30pm
Bod is a part time Technical Instructor with a huge range of diverse skills. She has been making shoes and leather accessories for over twenty years (trained at Cordwainers' College in London) and also makes costumes and props for science centres including At Bristol, Birmingham ThinkTank and Glasgow Science Centre. She has freelanced on many commissions, but most recently has been working in textile-based Product Design (Trunki, Thread Design, RealiseDesign). A meticulous seamstress, her specialist areas are fine fabrics (silks and chiffons), leather, latex/plastic and anything really detailed and fiddly.