This is a ongoing partnership project with Chrysalis Arts and the North Yorkshire County Records Office in Northallerton. I am investigating these amazing, rich archives to uncover untold stories and new information about my home area of Selby in North Yorkshire. I have focused my attention is on the old toll bridge and its history. […]
Published: 28th January 2021
Themes: autobiography, collaborative, commission, crafts, engagement, exhibition identity, research Yorkshire
My new article connected to this project will be published in early 2021 the Journal of Arts and Community as part of the second Stitching Together special edition. This project challenges stereo types surrounding embroidery practice, working with a group of 15 boys at Burnage Academy in Manchester. It is one in a series of […]
Published: 28th January 2021
Themes: Bangladesh, collaborative, crafts, engagement, film, handmade, identity, signature, text
During the first lockdown I began posting items from my hand embroidery archive online; a mix of objects I had collected or been given over the years. This reminded me of people and past events and reunited me with friends old and new, online and led to a series of posts documenting past work and […]
Published: 21st January 2021
Themes: autobiography, Bangladesh, collaborative, commission, crafts, domestic embroidery exhibition handmade, identity, quilt, research text
I am delighted to have been awarded the 2020 Textile Society critical writing award for ‘An Embroidered Elegy; Mrs Scales Autograph Cloth’. This research from the viewpoint of an embroiderer uncovered the maker and making of a 1936 stitched fundraiser made in Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire. The article is published in the current […]
Published: 21st June 2020
Themes: autobiography, collaborative, crafts, domestic embroidery engagement, identity, signature, text Yorkshire
Scaffolding for Life, a new initiative has seen its first iteration following a successful bid as part of the Arts Council’s, Creative Practice award. Working with Conlon construct and charity Mates in Mind, this patchwork installation on Ormond Building at Manchester Metropolitan University explores ways to destigmatise issues related to poor mental health. The phrase, […]
Published: 31st January 2020
Themes: collaborative, crafts, embroidery engagement, health and well being identity, quilt, research text
The recipient of a Public Engagement Fellowship at MMU in 2009, I devised, co-ordinated and led Hulme Sweet Hulme, a collaborative arts project working with local groups.
Published: 10th October 2019
Themes: collaborative, commission, engagement, identity,
This new stitch-based project celebrates the women of Tameside, past and present and is launched on IWD 8th March at Portland Basin Museum in Ashton under Lyne and is on display until end May 2019. The initiative, funded by Tameside Council acknowledges 100 years since British women first gained the right to vote. The exquisite, […]
Published: 5th May 2019
Themes: collaborative, commission, engagement, handmade, identity, suffragette, sustainable Tameside, text
Sew Near – Sew Far is part of Meeting Point2, a year-long project led by contemporary art agency Arts&Heritage that sees artists partner with museums to produce new artworks inspired by their collections. The stitch-based artworks form part of Brontë200, a five-year programme celebrating the bicentenaries of the births of the Brontës. Sew Near – […]
Published: 10th June 2018
Themes: Bronte commission, crafts, engagement, identity, signature, text Yorkshire
This is a WWI fundraiser made in North Wales, now in St Fagan’s folk museum, Cardiff. Signature Cloths and quilts have been discovered in collections around Britain since I began researching into this subject in 2010. I have unearthed examples in museums ranging from Beamish in County Durham, the Quilters Guild in York, the Moravian […]
Published: 17th April 2017
Themes: collaborative, crafts, domestic embroidery handmade, identity, research signature, text
From July til late Sept 2016 new work can be seen in the Wit of the Stitch at Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales curated by June Hill. The exhibition includes new work – a stitched sampler created in the car park at the Crafts Centre celebrating the work of early Welsh poet Tudur Aled. Aled’s […]
Published: 8th October 2016
Themes: autobiography, embroidery handmade, identity, text
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