Overview
A versatile designer and academic, my professional experience includes curation, styling, photography, colour and textile consultancy/design and forecasting. Recent curatorial projects, include curating University of Brighton School of Art and Media Graduate Show and a series of Salon Conversations held at the Royal Academy in tandem with the exhibition Aware: Art, Fashion and Identity. Speakers included artists Grayson Perry and Yinka Shinabore, stylists Anna Trevelyan and Grace Woodward, and forecasters The Future Laboratory. I was awarded the UAL Excellence in Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching and was further nominated. I have recently joined AUB to work with BA (Hons) Fashion Branding and Communication after a rich career at London College of Fashion and University of Brighton.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA RCA Constructed Textiles (Royal College of Art)
- MA Fashion Curation (UAL, LCF)
- BA (Hons) Textile Design (Buckinghamshire University College)
Teaching Qualification
- HEA (in progress)
Teaching
I currently teach on BA (Hons) Fashion Branding and Communication.
Previously, I taught on BA (Hons) Fashion Communication at University of Brighton. Since 2001, I have taught at London College of Fashion, across a range of courses; BA (Hons) Styling and Photography and BA (Hons) Fashion Illustration and Imaging, developing course content and contributing to course revalidation.
Research
Research Interests and Projects
My research practice has been concerned with the process[es] of documenting objects and ephemera from a personal archive that explores the longevity of wearing, journeying through familial relationships and garments as markers of time and place. These items are still worn and reappraised each year, constantly distilling their meaning and function. I am interested in notions of integrated creativity, thinking through making and research methods; visual decoding and visualisation.
My Research Gallery
Awards and Prizes
Notable awards/prizes
UAL (London College of Fashion) Excellence in Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching
Subsequent Nominations between 2015 - 2019