Curatorial
Textile and Place conference 2021
https://www.textileandplace.co.uk The Textile and Place conference explores the politics of textiles. Hosted by Manchester School of Art, the conference builds upon the debates from the first Textile and Place conference which took place in 2018 and postponed from...
Fabric: Touch and Identity
Playful and provocative, this exhibition seeks to explore how the qualities of cloth conceal, reveal and seduce through the prisms of art, design, film, and dance. The drape, fold, touch and feel of fabric have been used to explore identity as a sensual, gendered or...
Textile and Place
https://www.textileandplace.co.uk The conference hosted by Manchester School of Art and the Whitworth draws upon Manchester past histories and contemporary associations with textile linked to place. Textile as a socially dynamic, communicative and active material...
Made in Translation
This collaborative project is between makers, artists, designers and writers at Manchester School of Art and Manchester Writing School, in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Portico Library’s collection of books provides...
Painting into Textile: Inspired by Michael Kidner
A one-day exhibition at Flowers Gallery, London marks the culmination of a project where textiles have been created in response to the works of Michael Kidner. Kidner was at the forefront of Optical Art in the 1960s, with works using repeated systematic structures and...
Significance
Significant Stitch This exhibition shows contemporary works by staff and students at Manchester School of Art www.art.mmu.ac.uk made in response to the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. Gawthorpe’s Textile Collection www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk includes 30,000 pieces,...
Place at the Table
Place at the Table is a project challenging categorizations of craft with Kettle as curator and artist. The project presented craft as social, functional, relational, performative and for its material character. The project had multiple strands was curated by myself,...
Design for Living
New Generation — Design for Living Design Manchester 2016 A two-day conference with presentations and workshops, co-curated with Alice Kettle and Age-Friendly Manchester. The New Generation — Design for Living event looked at the challenges and...
Pairings
Pairings Conversations and Collaborations acknowledges both uniqueness and togetherness. The intention is to create dialogue between makers and material in order to learn and understand an alternative perspective and reflect back on one’s own. This exhibition brings...
Making It
Making It: A celebration of craft and community in Winchester Winchester Discovery centre, Winchester 12-14 October 2012 A multi stranded celebration of making and creativity which takes place in Winchester and reveals how craft and the process of making is central to...