Ms Mae Finlayson
Tutor - Textiles & Visual Arts A-B
MA
Contact Details
General Responsibilities
Mae Finlayson is an internationally trained contemporary textile artist now calling Australia home again. Swapping her native Melbourne for the bright lights of London 15 years ago, she received her Fine Art Textiles BA at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and completed her studies with a Masters in Constructed Textiles from the Royal College of Art. She then worked from her East London studio producing one off fashion pieces, embroideries, prints and commissioned works – like designing a ‘space age’ costume collection for the prestigious V & A Museum of Childhood. Mae has devised and taught community based art projects, acted as a creative consultant for fellow artists and designers, and lent her expertise to the creation of a major London based vintage textile and print archive.
Teaching Responsibilities
- Visual Arts A and B tutor
- Contemporary Textiles, Thinking Textiles, Textiles for Body and Space tutor
With her personal art works being featured in International Textiles magazine and regularly listed on leading fabric forecasting site WGSN, Mae uses drawing and print, colour and texture to create visually striking pieces of ‘craft with concept’.
