Ms Victoria Wheeler

Vicki Wheeler graduated from Loughborough University, School of Art and Design, in 1998 with a BA (Hons) in Printed Textile Design. She was awarded the Osborne and Little Bursary for MA study at the Royal College of Art, London and in 2000 she gained her MA in Printed Textiles. Since graduating Vicki has worked as a visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Liverpool Hope University alongside establishing a creative profile as an artist and designer. Vicki was appointed to a part-time position (0.5) in printed textiles and CAD at Manchester in August 2003.

Vicki currently teaches onto the BSc (Hons) Textile Design and Design Management programme. She is responsible for delivering taught drawing, fabric manipulation, and life drawing sessions alongside modules in CAD and digital fabric printing, and formal lectures on presentation, and research strategies.

Her creative research involves the production of work and the exploration of its place within creative culture. Her practice is concerned with space; the space an object occupies within the third dimension and the space between objects. Integral to this work is exploring ways in which site-specific digitally printed imagery can alter the dynamic of urban environments.

Vicki is the co-founder of a research and creative practice group. The main aim of this group is to explore and create platforms for collaborative interdisciplinary practice within the arts.

• Design consultant for the Liverpool European Opera Society's production of L'Enfant et les sortileges, (2006) touring Liverpool, Greece, Cyprus, Crete and France.
• Drawing: Methods of Drawing - An exploration into drawing with emphasis on drawing styles associated with specific disciplines.