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I'm a textile and fibre artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand, with a practice grounded in material exploration, process, and place. I completed my Master of Design at AUT in 2020, following my original training at Bradford University, England, in 1993.
Over the years, I’ve exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent highlights including the 2023 World of Threads Festival in Canada, International Fiber Arts XI in California, and winning the Supreme Award at Changing Threads: Contemporary Textile Fibre Art Award in Nelson. Most recently, I was honoured to receive the 2025 Dalgleish Architects Excellence Award at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui.
My textile pieces are not depictions of the landscape, but responses to it. They absorb its rhythms and hold its traces. Each work becomes a conversation between body, material, and place. Through layered fabric and stitch, I register presence rather than illustrate it.
Awarded
Awarded
2014 Bernina National Award, ‘Changing Threads’, Nelson Arts Council
Supreme Winner
Supreme Winner
2023 Supreme winner, ‘Changing Threads’, Nelson Arts Council
Awarded
Awarded
2025 Winner of the Dalgleish Architects Excellence Award, 2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review, The Sarjeant Gallery
My work draws on the textures, colours, and patterns of the natural world, particularly the wild, weathered landscapes of the west coast where I live. I use traditional textile techniques like hand and machine stitching, but often pair them with less conventional materials such as biomaterials, laser cutting, or 3D printing. This allows me to explore new possibilities in fibre, bridging the familiar with the unexpected.
At the heart of my practice is a desire to create tactile, sensory experiences that invite a closer look and reflection. I’m interested in how textiles can carry memory, register place, and speak quietly but powerfully through surface and form.
Awards
2025 Winner of the Dalgleish Architects Excellence Award, 2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review, The Sarjeant Gallery
2024 UCOL Research Excellence Award, Biotextiles
2023 Supreme winner, ‘Changing Threads’, Nelson Arts Council: http://www.acn.org.nz/changing-threads-23.html
2014 Bernina National Award, ‘Changing Threads’, Nelson Arts Council
2012 Highly Commended, Tamaki Estuary Art Award, Uxbridge, Auckland
2009 First Prize, Lincoln Green Sculpture Award, Waitakere Trust
Exhibitions
2025 Academy Prize for Visual Art, Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre
2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review, The Sarjeant Gallery
2025, Cleveland National Art Awards, The Otago Art Society, Dunedin
2024 Time, SDA members show, From out of the Blue Studio Gallery, Ōpunake, New Zealand.
2024 Changing Threads, National Contemporary Textile Fibre Art Awards, Nelson Arts Council, Nelson, New Zealand.
2023 World of Threads Festival, Oakville, Canada.
2023 International Fibre Arts Xl, Sebastopol Centre for the Arts in Northern California
2023 Changing Threads, National Contemporary Textile Fibre Art Awards, Nelson Arts Council, Nelson, New Zealand.
2023 Lysaght Watt Trust Art Award, Hawera, New Zealand.
2023 Staff Show, UCOL, Edith Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand.
2022 Taranaki Art Award, Ōpunake, New Zealand.
2022 Between the Light, international group show, Edith Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand.
2021 Parkin Drawing Prize, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, New Zealand.
2021 Master of Design Exhibition, Sense of Place, Edith Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand.
2019 Staff Show, UCOL, Edith Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand.
2018 Staff Show, UCOL, Edith Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand.
2016 Epoché Group Show, Pierre Peters Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2014 Biennial Exhibition & Award, Contemporary Textiles, Buda Historic Home & Garden, Australia.
2014 Changing Threads, National Contemporary Textile Fibre Art Awards, Nelson Arts Council, Nelson, New Zealand.
2012 Tamaki Estuary Art Award, Uxbridge, Auckland, New Zealand.
2011 Steampunk: Tomorrow as it used to be, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru, New Zealand.
2011 National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, New Zealand.
2010 Objective, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.
2010 Metonymy, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.
2010 Pins & Needles, Uxbridge, Auckland, New Zealand.
2010 Tutor Show, Uxbridge, Auckland, New Zealand.
2010 Tamaki Estuary Art Award, Uxbridge, Auckland, New Zealand.
2009 Tamaki Estuary Art Award, Uxbridge, Auckland, New Zealand.
2009 Changing Threads, National Contemporary Textile Fibre Art Awards, Nelson Arts Council, Nelson, New Zealand.
2009 23rd Waitakere Art Award & Lincoln Green Sculpture Award, The Studio, Corban’s, Auckland, New Zealand.
2008 Post Stitch: To the Letter, Lopdell House, Auckland, New Zealand.
1993 Group show, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England.
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