Shannon SwinburnTextile Practicioner
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shannon.swinburn@gmail.com

@shanswinburn



Shannon Swinburn is an independant Textiles Practitioner currently studying MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art having previously studied BA Graphic Communication at Central Saint Martins. Her studies at the RCA are supported by the Haberdashers’ Scholarship,The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation Prize, and The Textile Society Student Bursary Award.

Shannon’s work investigates the intrinsic links between gender, textiles, and modern-day computing. She aims to platform the untold stories of women in emergent technology through a series of interactive looms, sound, and textiles pieces. 


Space-age Needlework
2024
Cotton & Metal
  • Inspired by a press release that listed the names of some of the women working to weave the CRM modules during the Apollo missions and referred to them as ‘Space-Age Needleworkers’ This module was woven using the same binary technique as the original modules and reads: 

  • ‘Space-age Needleworkers weave rope memories. Vernell Norman, Caroline Butler, Helen Lennon, Edna Walcott, and Mary Julian.’