Scholastic and Mentoring

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.

I am now offering Mentoring Sessions.

Over the last year I’ve started working with two artists who have Arts Council DYCP and Project Grants.

I am also very happy to do one off sessions. These can be done over Zoom or come to my studio in Ramsgate, Kent.

An hour session is £60. Please get in contact if you would like to discuss further or have any questions.

  • 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