Amy Tidmarsh

Lecturer

Amy Tidmarsh is a multidisciplinary textile designer, maker, and researcher driven by an inventive approach to hand-based textile skills. By combining intuitive ways of working with an in-depth focus on practice-based research, she explores ideas centred around craft, process, and performative textiles. In 2021 she was awarded The Textile Society Critical Writing Open Award for her research paper ‘To Instruct’. She graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons) in Embroidery in 2012, and an MA in Textile Design from the Royal College of Art in 2021.

Amy has taught across Further and Higher Education since 2012, specialising Textiles, Fashion and Costume curricula at a number of different institutions. She gained a PGDipE specialising in Further Education from Huddersfield University in 2016.

Awards and Scholarships:

May 2021 - Critical Writing Open Award 2021 - The Textile Society

Sept 2019 - Coates Foundation Bursary - Coates Foundation Trust

Research Projects

July 2020 - ‘To Instruct’ Dissertation - Royal College of Art

April 2016 - ‘Teaching Technical Making Skills: The Potential Role of E-Learning in FE Art and Design'- Conference paper - University of Huddersfield

Professional Experience

2022 – present: Lecturer – Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles – BA (Hons) Nottingham Trent University, UK

2021 – present: Course writing and development – BA Textiles (Hons) - Open College of the Arts, Barnsley, UK

2019 – present: Tutor - BA Textiles (Hons) - Open College of the Arts, Barnsley, UK

2018 – present: Lecturer - Edexcel Level 3 BTEC / UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

2015 – 2019: Pathway Leader / Lecturer - UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - Leeds Arts University (formally Leeds College of Art), Leeds, UK

2017 – 2018: Lecturer - Printed Textile and Surface Pattern Design BA (Hons) - Leeds Arts University (formally Leeds College of Art), Leeds, UK

2012 – 2015: Lecturer - UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - Leeds Arts University (formally Leeds College of Art), Leeds, UK