Since 2008,Clio has been working with other international stakeholders on EU funded projects, exploring design heritage as a driver for innovation policy in the textile industry. Her scholarly work explores the narrative and material culture of textile production, with special interests in community narratives and retention of textile heritage. Clio publishes speculative thinking on textiles and interdisciplinarity through film, weaving and writing. She is co-author of Sustainability and the Social Fabric - Europe’s new textile industries, 2017, Bloomsbury Academic.
Since 2008,Clio has been working with other international stakeholders on EU funded projects, exploring design heritage as a driver for innovation policy in the textile industry. Her scholarly work explores the narrative and material culture of textile production, with special interests in community narratives and retention of textile heritage. Clio publishes speculative thinking on textiles and interdisciplinarity through film, weaving and writing. She is co-author of Sustainability and the Social Fabric - Europe’s new textile industries, 2017, Bloomsbury Academic.
Competitively funded research projects:
Academic project leader: EurotexId, EU Culture Programme programme project, 2008-2010
Research fellow: Plustex, Interreg IVC project, European Regional Development Fund, 2011-2014.
Dr Clio Padovani is Deputy Head of School (Education) for Winchester School of Art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton.
Clio has a 1st class honours BA from the Tapestry programme at Edinburgh College of Art and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art.
Her PhD is from the University of Southampton, awarded in 2019 for a thesis titled: Banal and Splendid Form: revaluing textile makers’ social and poetic identity as a strategy for textile manufacturing innovation.
Clio has a track record as an exhibiting artist in tapestry and digital media. She was one of the first UK artists in textiles to innovate in the field using video and the moving image; one of her video and tapestry works, "Own Time", was the first media piece to be purchased for Craft Council's national textile collection. As an academic, Clio taught textiles between 1995 and 2014, as Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Between 2003 and 2008 Clio was Director of Undergraduate Studies at WSA, leading a School wide curriculum restructure and new programme development. She has held External Examiner posts at Manchester Metropolitan University and Norwich University of the Arts. She is Senior Fellow of the HEA, since 2012, and a mentor and panel reviewer for the University’s Advance HE professional accreditation scheme.
Prizes
Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) (2018)
