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.

Selected exhibitions

Recent exhibitions include UK and international presentations, including participation in KOGEI Kyoto 2026. I am a member of PRISM Textiles and continue to develop new work through exhibitions, teaching, and research-led practice.

Membership

• Prism Art Textiles
• The Society of Designer Craftsmen MSDC
• Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts FRSA

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 – Prism Mile End Gallery London ‘Dictionary’ – May

2025

Prism Textiles, Any Other Business – Mile End Gallery, London

Willow Gallery, Oswestry

2024

Society of Designer Craftsmen, Bankside Gallery

2015 – 2019

Prism Hoxton Arches Gallery, London

2015 – 2019

Prism Hoxton Arches Gallery, London

2017

Prism at the RBSA Birmingham

2016

Prism Hiscox Centre, London

2008 – 2014

Prism Mall Galleries, London

2013

Pure Arts

2009 – 2013

Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries London

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