Jo Budd Explained

Jo Budd
Birth Name:Josephine Budd
Birth Place:Norwich
Nationality:British
Field:Quilting
Training:Newcastle University

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.

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

Notes and References

  1. http://www.quilt.co.uk/quilting-articles.asp?idNo=27 Jo Budd at Festival of Quilts, 2006
  2. Web site: Jo Budd. Samling Foundation. 1 June 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20080828195031/http://www.samlingfoundation.co.uk/guest_artists/JoBudd.html. 28 August 2008.
  3. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/videos/j/video-wintermale-and-summerfemale-by-jo-budd/ Winter/Male and Summer/Female
  4. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:eyGs21JwHHwJ:www.sevenoaksschoolartspace.com/y11-resources/GCSEexampaper_ArtDesign_June2010.pdf+%22jo+budd%22+gcse&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjqKvoi-X-Y8lqhVh4-vS21srkSK4OyQuzqfhHihGdw2TOGQJq0e6MRwVOfHqvzMZBTxhLLGDgarEs6Z4Li6ODOMRArSvnPJBS50f9eP1bSEXlHGthr2bdxTSHOYfVM4tZ5pP1f&sig=AHIEtbRsUigPIczLT1VI-CbAh0dqIqW45g Art & Design Exam paper