Photography by Neil Hanna
Tapestry artist Jo McDonald works from her Edinburgh studio and uses second-hand books as an alternative medium to wool and thread. Jo’s artistic practice focuses on storytelling, memory, and shared experience.
Excited by the material qualities of paper, Jo experiments with new possibilities of how this material can be manipulated using traditional tapestry techniques. Through a process of de- and re-construction, Jo creates new structures from aged materials which still contain their original history.
Jo holds an MFA in Tapestry from Edinburgh College of Art and has work held in private and public collections in the UK, France, USA and South Africa. In 2021, Jo was shortlisted for The Cordis Prize for Tapestry.
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