Jacqui Baxter is a textile designer and botanical artist who grew up and studied textile design in South Africa. Jacqui now resides in Melbourne where she has worked for many years designing for a range of textile industries including swimwear, lingerie, fashion, corporate wear as well as interior and bed linen. Companies she has worked for include Frame Textile Corporation in South Africa, Greenwich Design, Dryen Australia and Linen House.
Jacqui also teaches floral drawing and painting techniques at RMIT University and has also had the opportunity to lecture at Jenny Phillip’s School of Botanical Art, assisting artists in printing their work onto fabric, as well as at the Royal Botanical Gardens. Jacqui has run many of her own short courses at Abbotsford Convent and in collaboration with Frankie and Swiss print studio.
Jacqui’s botanical work has been exhibited at the Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens biennial exhibition (2010, 2012 & 2014); the Eucalypt Exhibition (2011); and Nature in Art Exhibition at RBG Melbourne (2013 & 2015). In 2014 her botanical and textile work was also displayed at a joint exhibition at Acme Et Al, Yarra Valley.

Angie Réhe is a Melbourne based fashion illustrator, designer and educator whose work celebrate her love of both art and fashion. Her fresh, chic, and timeless work has been sought by clients including Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, The Age, Penguin Books, L’Officiel, Jimmy Choo, Le Louvre, Mimco,Mecca Cosmetica, amongst others. She writes for her illustrated blog Patsyfox (www.patsyfox.com), is a sessional lecturer at RMIT University, and runs her own boutique-style Fashion Illustration classes as The Drawing Salon which were launched during the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2010. She regularly provides guest workshops & masterclasses for art galleries including NGV International, Heide Museum of Modern Art, and the Bendigo Art Gallery.

Janette Wotherspoon has been working and teaching in the Fashion and Textile industry for more than 20 years, initially teaching Design, Dressmaking and associated Clothing Industry programs at Melbourne Institute of Textiles where she also taught the CAD program, Primavision.
For the last 14 years Janette has been at RMIT University teaching Adobe software and other Computer Aided Design (CAD) related courses to Diploma, Degree and Masters programs within the School of Fashion and Textiles, as well as customised training for Industry, teaching design and administration staff at many of Melbourne’s well known Fashion and Textile companies.
Janette has recently undertaken Adobe Train the Trainer qualifications and is a registered member of the Adobe Education Exchange and campus leader in Adobe Software awareness training.
Janette continues to combine her passion for Fashion, Textiles, Craft and Visual art into her own art and design practice. Her work is focused on developing new design applications and techniques for fashion, textiles and accessories using original artwork and sustainable practice. She works in partnership with another printmaker to produce a range of screen printed fabrics and limited edition women’s fashion garments.

Janelle Magee is a clothing designer, textile maker and teacher. Having studied both fashion and textile design, Janelle has a multi-passionate approach to the craft of fashion. She has worked as an Account Manager, developing fully fashioned knitwear collections, and travelling extensively throughout Asia and Europe. Janelle has also worked as a technical designer and pattern maker for various designers. Whilst living in the Netherlands, Janelle volunteered for the Clean Clothes Campaign, a labour rights advocacy organisation working to improve the rights and conditions of global garment factory workers. Upon her return to Melbourne she began teaching Clothing Production and Textile Design at social enterprise, The Social Studio. In addition to her current role as VE Teacher at RMIT, Janelle manages her own made-to-order label, Sorrow Clothing.