TEXTILE DESIGN

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Textile artist and costume designer Jane Wildgoose has a passion for the 17th and 18th centuries. 'I'm not interested in slavish period reconstruction or retreating to a halcyon age, but I do want to protest about what we've lost. The 20th century seems to lack ways you can ritualise memory and mourning.'

After graduating in Fashion and Textiles from Winchester School of Art…her reputation as a textile historian spread and she is much in demand with theatre companies reviving lost or 'undiscovered' texts. She has designed several productions with her long-term collaborator, the writer/director Alasdair Middleton, such as a memorable blood-red set for Gismonde of Salerne in Love, performed - for the first time in 400 years - at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994.

Crafts Magazine No. 143 November/December 1996, p43

Links:

• Notes: Baroque Baroque, the culture of excess, Stephen Calloway