Scholastic
I have a wealth of experience as a tutor and researcher; I am keen to encourage and facilitate the creativity of others and share my own practice-based research through a strongly reflective approach.
I founded the pioneering Textile Art Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (1991-2006). After several years teaching on the MA Textiles Practice program at Goldsmith’s, University of London I moved to the University for the Creative Arts, where I held the post of Reader in Textiles (2013-2023). I taught across all levels of Higher Education, from Foundation to Research Degrees plus roles at management and strategy levels. As a Reader in Textiles, I was an active researcher and mentor to early career researchers. My research outcomes received international-level recognition in the 2001, 2014 and 2019 Research Excellence Framework.
I have taught at numerous universities within the UK, in Australia, Japan and Norway, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have acted as an advisor and jury panel member on many occasions, including the Wellcome Trust’s Sci-Arts program (textiles), as External Advisor for degree validations, External Examiner for a range of degree programs, as well as contributed to grant, competition and exhibition panels.
I currently hold the post Emerita Reader in Textiles at the University for the Creative Arts.
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2023 - 24 Emerita Reader & visiting lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, University for the Creative Arts
2017- 23 Reader in Textiles, School of Fashion and Textiles, University for the Creative Arts
2019-22 External Examiner, BA (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear, University for the Arts London
2022 Lecture, Fibre Arts International Conference, Pittsburgh Philadelphia, USA
2021 Lecture, Thread Symposium, Swansea, Wales
2020 Lecture, CONTEXTILE 2020 Portugal, Textile Talks Symposium, Guimarães, Portugal
2020 Lecture, Craft in 2020: looking back and looking forward - COLLECT London
2018 PhD Examiner, Viva panel member Royal College of Art, London
2017 Lecture, 'Fabric of Faith: Exploring textiles as practice-based research', University College London
2017 Lecture, ‘The Matter of Material’ Symposium- Entangled Exhibition, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2016 Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London
2016 Lecture and Workshop, ‘My Cloth’ - Yinka Shonibare’s ‘British Library’, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2013-16 External Examiner, BA (Hons) Contemporary Arts Practice - Bath Spa University
2015 Visiting Lecturer, Swansea Metropolitan University
2015 Visiting Lecturer, Norwich School of Art
2010-2015 Mentor, Crafts Council’s Hothouse Program
2014 Lecture and Workshop, ‘Material Language’, Tate Modern and The Whitechapel Gallery, Richard Tuttle’s Turbine Hall installation ‘I don’t know or the Weave of Textile Language’
2014 Masterclass, The Beaney Art Gallery & Museum, Canterbury
2013 Lecture, ‘Threads of Feeling’, Foundling Museum, London
2013 External Examiner, BA (Hons) Textiles In Practice, Manchester Metropolitan University
2007-2013 Trustee, Crafts Council of Great Britain, London
2009-2013 External Examiner, BA (Hons) Textile Practice (Textile Crafts and Art), University of Huddersfield
2012 External Advisor to BA (Hons) Textiles in Practice Validation, Manchester Metropolitan University
2010-2011 Co-Mentor, Reflect Lab, The Sage Gateshead
2007-2011 External Examiner, University of Hertfordshire
2010 Masterclass, University of Ulster & Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2009 Advisor, to the Art Foundation Textile Art Prize
2009 Lecture, ‘Textile Vocabularies - Innovation in Practice’ Conference, Heriot Watt University, Scotland
2008 Lecture, Enfolded Meanings, National Gallery
2006-2008 Program Coordinator MA Textiles, Goldsmiths, University of London
1991 - 2006 Program Director BA Textile Art and MA Textiles, Winchester School of Art University of Southampton