As an exhibiting textile artist Gail’s craft heritage is in bobbin lace but she has long broken free from the traditional constraints to pursue her own style of contemporary lace. For Gail the term ‘lace’ does not require the use of specific techniques or stitch patterns, it is perhaps best summed up as; a pattern of constructed holes, random or geometric as the subject requires and constructed in whatever medium is most appropriate.

Gail maintains an active role in promoting contemporary lace via exhibitions, her work having been exhibited widely in the UK where she has also demonstrated her craft at Art in Action and the Knitting and Stitching shows. In Europe the work has been shown as far afield as Spain and the Czech Republic. Gail’s work can be found in private and museum collections, she undertakes commissions and consultancy projects. She is a member of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild.

Long influenced by archaeology Gail based her MA research on the codes used in the excavations of Christ Church, Spitalfields. These codes inspired a series of Identity Specific pieces of lace that have been used to address conceptual questions about imposed identity and the traces we leave behind.

Gail's current research is titled;
Connecting the Lacunae: contemporary lace practice and the notion of 'absence' in museum archives
It considers the ways in which lacunae in archives challenge the conventional meaning of museum text and therefore the meaning of objects. It also looks at the relationship between the lacunae in the archive and the established reading of the archive as the solid foundations of historical accuracy.