MLitt Art Writing School of Fine Art
Jodie Whitchurch
Jodie Whitchurch is an Art Writer, Prop Maker and Scenic Artist based in Glasgow and Nottingham. She received her BA in Fine Art Sculpture from Brighton University in 2020. Her debut poetry collection ‘Haven’t the Foggiest’ was published in 2022 by Big White Shed. She has since been published by Big Red Cat Zine, From Glasgow to Saturn, The Nottingham Horror Collective and Eavesdrop Magazine. She writes with beloved (though tiresome) ghosts, mysticism and a persistent fixation with mosses. Works traverse terrains of poetic hybrid form, knit and theatrical soft sculpture. Her self-produced pamphlet, MOSS GIRL is currently stocked at Good Press, Glasgow.
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Knitted Tapestries
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Moss Tapestry: Knit, Branch, Forms, Lavender.
The Major Arcana
1. The Mage or Magician: Grimoire
2. The High Priestess: Lavender (Governing)
3. The Empress: Seeing, Moss Knit
4. The Emperor: Sculptural Elements
5. The Hierophant: Moss Formations, a Fanatic
6. The Lovers: Knitting Needles, Chemistry
7. The Chariot: Timepiece, Carries Forth
8. Fortitude: Purple Open Honeycomb Knit, Enduring
9. The Hermit: House as Practice
10. The Wheel of Fortune: Orb (This is Not Magic)
11. Justice: Dancing Hands and Stones
12. The Hanged Man: Buddleia Plant
13. Death: Blank, Swirling
14. Temperance: Patience, Hands Holding
15. The Devil: Twisting Vines
16. The Tower (Struck by Lightning): a Lit Candle
17. The Star: Four Pointed Stars (of the Magi)
18. The Moon: A Furious Luminary
19. The Sun: Bathed in Colour
20. The Last Judgement: Moss Body (Finality)
21. The Fool: Golden Coins
22. The World, Universe or Time: Mossy Domain, a round Ecology.
Will be available to purchase at a later date. Follow Instagram for more information.
(Modelled on The Original Rider Waite: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, An
Illustrated Guide, A. E. Waite. Rider, Penguin Random House Uk. Original
Edition, 1910. Referenced: 2021 Edition. London).
Our Passing Fruits (Lilac, Spore, Ode, Moss) – Degree Show
Our Passing Fruits
(Lilac, Spore, Ode, Moss)
Passages, Post-Graduate Degree Show, GSA, 2025.
Our Passing Fruits, a sculptural avenue produced for the September 2025 GSA Postgraduate Degree show. The structure sits in a natural corridor between two ends of the exhibition space (reading area and artworks), joining the areas in the act of passage.
The textile tunnel showcases a variety of knit, dyed fabric, painted media and soft sculpture. All produced in semblance with seasonal observation throughout the duration of the MLitt. In Winter, lace-knit soft blues and green fishnet follow the deepest darkest, fullest moon; within Spring, pink moss-knit undulates into olive green, a body of four-point stars and the phrase ‘This is Not Magic’. In Summertime, Buddleia blooms downward to sightline from bamboo trellis, open honeycomb stitch ripples from branch in hues: lilac, tea, sage and lawn green – bound together as fitting with mossy, velour threads.
A warm-white light is positioned in a corner of the room on the right-hand side of the door. This illuminates the hanging textile additions to the framework, granting view of shadow onto the wall beyond. Placing of the tunnel allows an act of participation from viewers. Moved from reader to being within, making introductions to the textile ecosystem, adaptations to space, before releasing into the waiting artworks.
Media: Yarns, dyed fabric, bamboo, gardening wire, wadding, embroidery thread, Rosco stage paints, acrylic paints, branches sourced from Tollcross Park, Glasgow (cleaned and oiled).
