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Victoria Mitchell

Research Supervisor

My research and writing focus on intersections between making, metaphor and meaning, especially drawing on anthropology, history, philosophy and critical theory as a way of interrogating relationships between conceptual and material practices in fine and applied arts and architecture, often with reference to textiles or basketry.

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I am particularly interested in textile actions (such as spinning, stitching, weaving, folding and braiding) as they embody and affect mental activity. My 1997 essay ‘Text, Textile Techne’ has been reprinted in The Textile Reader (ed. J. Hemmings) and Textiles: Critical and Primary Sources (ed. C. Harper). Research into the relationship between textile production, pattern and consumerism, with particular reference to Eighteenth century Norwich textiles, is ongoing.

Victoria Mitchell was a member of the Pattern and Chaos research group of collaborative, interactive and networking designers, artists, theorists and innovators in education, based at Norwich University of the Arts. The publication by Intellect Books, of Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life, edited by Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell, was published in 2023.

Selected publications 1997-2023:

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