shannon.swinburn@gmail.com
@shanswinburn
Shannon Swinburn (b.1993, Portsmouth, UK) is a Textile Artist based in London.
Dedicated to exploring the intrinsic connections between gender, textiles, and modern-day computing. Her work aims to highlight the often-overlooked contributions of women in emergent technology, utilizing speculation, counterfactual histories, and material storytelling to bring these narratives to the forefront.
Awards and Residencies include:
The Sarabande Foundation Studio Residency (2024-2025),The Blackhorse Workshop Residency
(2024) The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation Prize (2024),The Textile Society Student Bursary Award (2024) The Haberdashers’ Scholarship RCA (2023)
Education:
MA Textiles, Royal College of Art
BA Graphic Design, Central Saint Martins
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’
Avalable at House of Bandits by Sarabande
Currently exhibiting at Selfridges