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Education
2015 - PhD - University of Brighton/UCA Farnham
2009 - MA - Contemporary Crafts: Textiles, UCA Farnham 

Research
Positions
2016 - Research Fellow - Nottingham Trent University Lace Archive

Consultancies
2014 - Art Fund - Specialist opinion
2013-14 - Lace 21 - Contemporary lace for Waddesdon Manor 2014 season
2013 - Alice Kettle - The Garden of England (Flower Helix), Queen's House, Greenwich
2012 - Lesley Millar - Transparent Boundaries, UK Project
2011 - Loop.pH - Luminous Lace, Kensington Palace
2006 - Loop.pH - Sonumbra

Collaborations
2014 - Boudicca - Lace Sound Dress
2014 - Lace Research Network conference and exhibition - Co-organiser
2013-14 - New design for Leavers lace to be manufactured at La Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais
2013 - Lace Research Network - Co-founder
2013 - Crysalis Metamorphosis project
2012 - Transparent Boundaries UK Pilot Project (co-lead artist)

Conference Papers/Presentations
2017 - 'Craft in Context(s)' at 'The Craft History Conference' Crafts Study Centre, UCA Farnham
2017 - 'Business Archives: Looking beyond the profit and loss account' at 'Missing Persons' Nottingham Trent University
2016 - 'Plain Net: A much embellished story' at 'Hybrid: Limerick Lace/Liminal Identity' Limerick, Eire
2016 - 'A new twist on lace' Nottingham Trent University (BA students)
2015 - 'Basketry: a lacemaker's perspective' Pauling Centre, Oxford
2014 - 'Reading between the lines' at 'Lace and the Museum' National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
2014 - 'The hidden hand' at 'The art of lace' Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury
2014 - 'Knowledge transfer in lace design' Crysalis Project, Ronse, Belgium
2014 - 'Innovative new lace design' at CREA-Zone 'Colour District' Kortrijk, Belgium
2014 - 'The art of lace' Nottingham Trent University (BA students)
2013 - 'Practice as methodology' UCA, Farnham (MA students)

Published
2011 - 'Lost in Lace: Concealed and Revealed' - Essay in: Millar, L. (ed.) Lost in Lace: Transparent Boundaries. Birmingham: Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

Selected Exhibitions
2015 - Framing Space II, West Ox Arts, Bampton
2014 (ongoing) - Lace design in production, La Cite Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais
2014 - Lacemakers, Stables Gallery, Orleans House Twickenham
2014 - [Im]Perfezione, Valtopina, Perugia, Italy
2014 - Lace Effects 2, La Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais
2014 - Imagine . . . Lace at Waddesdon, Waddesdon Manor
2013 - Fabric of Memory, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London
2013 - Beauty is the First Test, NCCD Sleaford, Bilston Craft Gallery Wolverhampton, Platform Gallery Clitheroe, National Craft Gallery Kilkenny Ireland
2013 - Time : Place : Space, UCA Farnham
2012 - Framing Space, Artworks MK
2012 - Transparent Boundaries UK Project, Foyer Gallery UCA Farnham (Co-lead Artist)
2011 - Lost in Lace: Concealed & Revealed, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (Researcher/Curator)
2011 - Concept and context in practice, UCA Farnham
2010 - XIV International Lace Biennial, Sansepolcro, Italy
2010 - Constructed Spaces, Sunbury on Thames
2009 - make 09, UCA Farnham
2008 - Divergence, Knitting & Stitching Shows   
2008 - iMAgine, UCA Farnham 
2007 - Rhythms & Cycles, Highcliffe Castle 
2006 - Festival of Embroidery & Lace, Lodz, Poland 
2006 - International Festival of Lace, Vamberk, Czech Republic 

Selected Demonstrations
1997 2008 - Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace
2005/6 – Fashion & Embroidery Show, Harrogate
1996/7/8/9 2002 - Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxfordshire