Academic posts
1980s & 1990s
84-85 Youth Training Scheme tutor with NACRO in South London
86-90 Technician in Visual Arts Department, Goldsmiths College, London
87-90 Special Needs craft tutor, Lambeth Council
89-91 Access tutor, Goldsmiths College, London
90-91 Weave tutor, Camphill Community, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
92-00 Visiting lecturer at various British colleges and universities
93-98 Visiting lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London
2000s
12 Visiting tutor West Dean College, West Sussex
03-04 Tutor at Venture Arts, working with adults with learning disabilities in Manchester
Current (Since 92) Senior Lecturer, Textiles in Practice Manchester School of Art (0.5)
Exhibitions
2017 Sew Near- Sew Far, The Brontë Parsonage Museum, Yorkshire
2016 The Wit of the Stitch Ruthin Crafts Centre, North Wales
2016 Making Space – 62 Group Exhibition, Macclesfield Silk Museum
2015 Rural Craft – Re-Imagined – Touring exhibition, Cumbria
2015 Construct, Ruthin Craft centre, North Wales
2014-5 Signature Cloths, Curated exhibition at the IQSC, Lincoln Nebraska
2013 Sign Here Quilters Guild York
2012 50@62 Textile Exhibition, Holden Gallery, Manchester
2012 Ardis James Tribute Exhibition, IQSC University of Nebraska
2011 Wordplay Stroud International Textiles Festival
2011 Threading Dreams with Sreepur Village, Gallery Oldham
2009-10 Perspectives Contemporary quilt-makers, International Quilt Study Center, Nebraska, USA
Published Academic Papers
2018
Craft and Text. University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey
Arts and Heritage, Manchester School of Art
2016
Stories of Collaborative Making: Two Rochdale Quilts with Alison Slater, in Quilt Studies
Review of The Event of the Thread by Hannah Leighton Boyce in Journal of Modern Craft
2015
Keynote presentation at Making and Mending, the IQSC, international symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2012
Signature Cloths; Social Networking old and new. “Bengal to Baltimore” De Witt Museum, Williamsburg VA, USA
Signature Cloths as Social Engagement The Arts in Society, John Moores University
Cultural Heritage and Quiltmaking The Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference, Delhi
Work in collections
2017 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2016 Burnage Academy for Boys, Manchester
2013 Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale, Lancashire
2013 Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
2012 Terrence Higgins Trust, London
2008 Nowgen (Genetic Research Centre) Manchester
2007 Alma Park Primary School, Manchester
2006 Gallery Oldham Contemporary Banner Collection
2006 University of Nebraska, International Quilt Study Center
2004 Stoneyholme and St Stephens Primary Schools, Burnley England
2000 Transport and General Workers Union Manchester
1998 Oldham Museum and Art Gallery England
1997 Victoria and Albert Museum London
1997 Bedfordshire Schools’ Collection England
1997 Science and Industry Museum Manchester
1996 Shipley Art Gallery, Contemporary Crafts Collection England
1995 Embroiderers Guild of the UK
1994 Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester UK
1993 Crafts Council of Great Britain