Statement:

Based in Bristol, I hold a studio at Spike Island and am currently the Senior Lecturer at Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC, responsible for the degree pathway in Textile Art.

My practice is diverse – driven by an interest to explore materials and the latent possibilities in their combinations. I have always worked in a cross disciplinary manner and seek to make connections through my work. Trained in Fine Art Printmaking at both Norwich School of Art and the Royal College of Art my interest is in language of making, in the multiple, in process and materials. Placement and site are key concerns. Recent works which explore issues of site and the ‘power of place’ or  ‘sense in place’ include ‘Bound’, ‘Fallen Star’, ‘Barcode: FB814’, ‘All the Kings Horses’, and ’Darning the Land’ which can be viewed in the works and projects pages of this website.

Current Projects:

This year is marked by three commissions which are site-responsive and further the potential for artwork to make connections between people and place, believing an artwork or intervention can assist in accessing a place and the language of textiles especially so.

1.      ’Darning the Land’, Maurice Lea Park, Swadlincote, for re:place

2.      ’Barcode: FB814′, Meadow Arts ‘rural commissioning programme’

3.      ’Bound, V-57′, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, USA

4.      I will be exhibiting this October in Bite-Size – “an exhibition of miniature textiles”, curated by Professor Lesley Millar,  which opens at the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, London on the 31st October. Touring to Japan in 2012. this exhibition draws together the artists who have worked with Professor Lesley Millar since ‘Revelation’: textile artists addressing issues in 1996.