Textile Artist Lorraine Roy talks to us about her love of natural sciences, developing an artist voice and how to succed as an artist.

This is a very useful sheet for all GCSE students. It's a writing frame that should help you to structure the annotations you make in your sketchbooks. It's very important to explain each piece of artwork in your book with a small amount of writing, but it's easy to write the wrong things, and hard to use the right artistic language. Following the five headings and using the phrases on this sheet will make your annotations better, and help you gain marks. You can access the sheet online by clicking here. I hope you find it helpful!

Chilean artist Juana Gómez utilises weaving and embroidery to explore the themes of genealogy, mythology and biology within her own female lineage

I'm a woman I was born in a land where, Serpents have angle figures Would hiss through kisses Would swirl while whirling you.