I use making to ask critical questions, generating new understanding and adding meaning through craft. Investigating processes and concepts through making: I ask what we make, how we make it, and why that matters.
I embrace interdisciplinarity, using found objects and materials like fired ceramics, wood, and textiles. Through my artefacts I examine ideas like pace, repetition, and playfulness. Since 2013 I’ve focused on repair within multiple disciplines, and as independent practice.
As 2018/19 Victoria and Albert Museum Artist in Residence, I examined the relationship of repair to conservation through artefacts, a publication and exhibition. My practice-based PhD can be read here: Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism.
Alongside my studio practice, I curate, give talks and workshops, and write. I am represented by Ruup & Form.
Practice commissions include A Jumper to Lend (2014) (Textile Toolbox touring exhibition), Sides to Middle (Nature of Mending, 2016, Bridport Arts Centre). My writing is published in Ephemera Journal (2019), A Narrative of Progress: The Camberwell ILEA Collection (2018) and The Department of Repair (2015) catalogues.
My work has been acquired by the V&A and the Camberwell ILEA Collection. MEND MORE Jumper (2015) and Blue Jumper (2012 ongoing) have been acquired by the V&A. A solo exhibition of my work at the National Centre for Craft and Design (2019) was curated by Lesley Farrell. Many of my Ceramic works were on display at the National Glass Centre from 2021-22, and more were at Somerset House, London, in summer 2022. A new commission will be in Repair Revolution! at Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich from March 31st 2023.
Selected exhibitions:
Repair Revolution!, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, from 31st March 2023
Eternally Yours, Somerset House, 16th June - 25th Sept 2022
Together Again, Bridget Harvey for Toast, Somerset House, 16th June - 25th Sept 2022
Collect2022 with Ruup&Form, Somerset House, 24th - 27th February 2022
Re-Purpose, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, July 2021 - June 2022
Collect2021 with Ruup&Form (online)
London Craft Week with Ruup&Form, October 2020
Collect2020 with Ruup&Form, Somerset House, 27th February - 1st March 2020
Repair-Making and the Museum, V&A Museum, 15th - 22nd September 2019
Fashioned from Nature, Natural History Museum of Denmark, 13th April 2019 - 1st September 2019
Propositional Practice (solo exhibition), National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, 23rd March 2019 - 19th May 2019
Fashioned from Nature, Victoria and Albert Museum, 21st April 2018 - 19th January 2019
A Narrative of Progress: The Camberwell ILEA Collection, Camberwell Space, 18th Sept - 27th Oct 2018
Creekside Open 2017 (selected by Jordan Baseman), APT Gallery, Deptford, 4th - 28th May 2017
Making Circles, Circular Transitions, Chelsea College of Art, 23 - 24th November 2016
Experiencing Change / Changing Experience, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, 27th July - 5th August 2016
…by a thread…, Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley, 19th April – 19th June 2016
Mending Revealed, Bridport Arts Centre, 5th March – 16th April 2016
Re- reanimate, repair, meld and mend, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, 10th October – 14th November 2015
creo collective with Matter of Stuff, The Hospital Club, London Design Festival 2015
PLATE (Product Lifetimes And The Environment) Exhibition, Nottingham Trent University, 17-19th June 2015
The Department of Repair, Camberwell Space (co-curating and exhibiting), 12th January – 20th February 2015
Knit 1, Mend 1, Keep 1, Change 1, Walford Mill Crafts, Dorset, 17th January - 1st March 2015
Textile Toolbox, pop-up 13th November 2014, online at http://textiletoolbox.com/ : travelling exhibition ongoing
Springboard, The Cookhouse, London, November 2014
creo collective present creo creates at the Design Junction, London Design Festival (co-curated and exhibited) 16th-21st September 2014
Cambridge Sustainability Residency exhibition, Norfolk Street Gallery, Cambridge, April 2014
Process Practice Play, Triangle Space, London, March 2014
Fashioned, London Fashion Week at Crafts Central, London, January 2014
creo collective present Material Matters at Interiors 2104 (co-curated and exhibited) Birmingham NEC, January 2014
creo collective present Material Times at the London Design Festival (co-curated and exhibited) 17th-22nd September 2013
The Geometrics : Volume 1, Kingsgate Gallery, West Hampstead, 19th April – 5th May 2013
DEW Line, Sustainability in Art residency exhibition, 13th-19th May 2013, Cambridge
Getting Making, co-curating, The Bear at Camberwell, 23rd-25th May 2013
We Weave loom, Camberwell College of Arts, London, January 2013
Mended (co-curated and exhibited) The Library, Camberwell, July 2012
Wondersite, Japanese Embassy, Green Park, London May- June 2012,
Blue Necklace, Hotel Elephant Gallery, Elephant and Castle, London, April 2012
Selected residencies, talks and other:
Repair Making - Keynote for Making and Mending conference, Endangered Materials Knowledge Programme, British Museum, January 2023
Create Day 2021 video
Back for good: the fine art of repairing things, (interview) Observer, August 2021
in conversation on Circular with Katie Treggiden (podcast) 2021
Repair and Privilege, a Knit15 talk for Wild and Woolly at Unravel Festival, May 2021
Broken Isn't Bad, activities for the Museum of Childhood, February 2021
Wear your repairs with pride: inside the modern mending movement, (article) Financial Times, How to Spend It, October 2020
In conversation with Eva Fernandez Martos, Collect2020
Getting Making: Understanding Making, Understanding Ourselves (talk) British Council, July 2019
Maker in Residence, Victoria and Albert Museum, October 2018 - July 2019
Unlearning / Remaking / Disobedience: Actively researching repair (Sculpture Lecture Series) Camberwell College of Arts, June 2016
Sides to Middle (artists talk) Bridport Arts Centre, March 2016
Cambridge Sustainability Residency 2014
MA Stars 2013
Cambridge Sustainability Residency 2013
Tokyo Wondersite 2012