Jacqueline Toal
Jackie Toal is an educator, creative practitioner, and researcher whose work bridges traditional analogue processes with emerging digital media. She has a deep love for surface pattern, painting, cyanotypes, and mixed‑media experimentation, and is increasingly exploring immersive technologies—particularly the interdisciplinary mix of surface pattern, print, craft, and digital creative technology. She has a strong interest in both traditional media and new media.
Jackie has over twenty‑five years of experience in further and higher education, teaching across creative technologies, media, animation, games, and XR. Before entering teaching, she spent seven years working in swimwear design, printed textiles, screen printing, colour development for textiles, and interior design.
Driven by a curiosity about how traditional practices intersect with emerging technologies, her work investigates how these combinations shape creativity. Culture, heritage, nature, and her home locality are of great interest to her.
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Interests in both merging traditional craft with immersive technologies.
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I recently did a project "Patterning Futures - dynamic textiles" with combined projection mapping - focusing on the role of the woman in the Irish textile industry with some AI storytelling with printed textiles and AR overlay.
Previously I worked on creating a nature - AR surface pattern prints project on silk. Interested in participatory arts, co-production cultural heritage, keen to explore more use of motion sensing, kinetic and digital fabrication, as well as photogrammetry, world building in games engines and Irish textiles and fashion and the Irish linen industry in immersive technologies.
Motion capture and animation, speculative approaches.
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co-production
participatory arts
