I am a contemporary artist working with sculptural textile processes, exploring movement, material memory, and historical textile cultures. My work uses wool, natural fibres, and wet-felting techniques to create sculptural forms that sit between body, object, and space.
My practice is grounded in an interest in how textiles can hold traces of gesture, structure, and transformation. Working primarily with British wool and natural dyes, I explore the relationship between solidity and fragility, repetition and variation, and the physical intelligence of materials as they are shaped through making.
Historical textile traditions are central to my research, including Ottoman, Turkish, and Persian textile cultures. Rather than referencing these traditions directly, I am interested in how they inform contemporary sculptural thinking through material systems, construction methods, and approaches to surface and form.
My current research develops a dialogue between felted sculptural structures and historical textile systems of dress, including Ottoman costume traditions. I am exploring the relationship between structured wool forms and silk garments—hand-painted and embellished—as contrasting but connected ways of constructing and articulating the body through textile. This work forms part of an ongoing investigation into the body as both material and cultural structure.
Alongside my studio practice, I teach sculptural textile processes in the UK and internationally. Teaching is closely connected to my practice and forms part of my wider research into material, movement, and making.
My work sits within contemporary sculpture and material-based practice, using textile processes as a means of exploring form, embodied gesture, and cultural memory.
I recently established an independent studio practice to focus exclusively on developing new work for international exhibition and advancing my teaching practice. This shift allows me to pursue research-led projects— particularly exploring the dialogue between felted sculptural forms and historical textile systems—whilst building my reputation in the global contemporary textile field.
Credentials & Affiliations
Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
Member of The Society of Designer Craftsmen (SDC)
Exhibiting internationally: Kogei Kyoto 2026
Teaching globally: Online and studio-based workshops
Exhibitions
2026
KOGEI Kyoto 2026, Japan (invited, forthcoming)
Invited by a UK-based curator to exhibit new sculptural textile works in a curated international exhibition in Kyoto, Japan. The project situates contemporary textile practice within dialogues between movement, constructed form, and historical craft traditions.
Dictionary – Mile End Gallery London
2025
Any Other Business – Mile End Gallery, London
Willow Gallery, Oswestry
2024
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Bankside Gallery
2009–2013
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries London
2008–2026
Prism Textiles, London (multiple exhibitions)
2013
Pure Arts
2014–2017
Crowborough Arts Open Studios
Publications and interviews
- Textileartist.org
- Feltmatters
- Sussex Life
- Felt Magazine
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate Textiles – Manchester Metropolitan University 2023
- Qualified Teacher QTS – Christchurch at Canterbury University 2009
- BA (Hons) Embroidered Textiles – Middlesex University 2008
Teaching
- Online Workshops – 2019 – current
- Studio workshops – 2016 – current
- Westhope College, Shropshire – 2024
- Felters Fling, USA – 2019
- Beacon Community College, Design & Technology (Textiles) 2009 – 2014
