Janet Bezzant MFA,
Postgraduate Programmes Co-ordinator
Telephone : 0161 247 1116
Email : j.bezzant@mmu.ac.uk
Office : Chatham Building / Room 707
Janet Bezzant is the Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Programme and has taught on BA and MA Textiles since 1991.
Janet Bezzant coordinates the postgraduate programme and contributes to the teaching of the MA Textile award. She earned a BA(hons) degree at Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in South Carolina USA.
Her research interests come from the field of textiles that informs installation and computation work, although the textile itself is often absent. Her practice looks at ways in which to examine relationships between physical and virtual objects and how these contexts impact on our perception and cognition. She is particularly interested in what role reflexivity plays in the mediation and methodology of process.
She has convened symposia on ‘textile futures’ involving contributions from Babara Layne, Joey Berzowska, Hilary Carlise and Linda Worbin. She has delivered papers on Craft in the Real and Digital World at the College Art Association Annual Conference and the North West Textiles Network. She has mounted installation exhibitions in the UK, USA and Europe.
