I am a UK artist and academic with a practice of 30 years that focuses upon vernacular crafts and systems. I make prints, archival installations, sculpture and embroidery. My current research interests are cotton, Indian independence and botany.
I studied Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art (1992) and my doctorate, A Grammar of Sentiment, Thinking about sentimental jewellery towards making new art about love and loss (awarded 2009 University of Wolverhampton, examiner Prof Gen Doy, De Montford, Leicester) reflected on the poetics of Victorian material culture, particularly jewellery, mourning cloth, trade and affect.
My work is represented in numerous institutional collections such as the Pitt Rivers Museum, The Crafts Council Collection, The Whitworth Gallery Manchester and the Government Art Collection. I have undertaken several artists residency programmes including AIR at Light Work Media Center Syracuse and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
I have supported numerous institutions as trustee including Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham, Meadow Arts, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, and have been an Artistic and Quality Assessor for Arts Council England. I am co-editor of Colour, Vol. 4 of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles and serve on Arts Council England’s Museums Designation Panel.