Community Textile Projects | Derbyshire & Beyond

A community flax project in Riddings, growing and processing local fibre to explore Derbyshire textile heritage, place, shared knowledge and making.

A year long hand stitched shrine built from found, gifted and discarded materials, exploring vulnerability, memory and showing the messy process as well as the surface.

Grassroots outreach took Coventry Open beyond the gallery into pubs, clubs and community venues, helping submissions grow from around 500 to more than 1,000.

An international textile collaboration with Common Threads Project, moving from story cloth practice into support and curation for a Westminster exhibition.

Selected as one of ten artists for COVert Arts’ 2021 exhibition at The BOX, showing my collaborative women’s lantern alongside my individual textile work.

A nine week lockdown textile made with free machine stitch, hand embroidery and repurposed materials, shown online in the Festival Of Quilts 2020 Art Quilt category.

An ongoing ten year environmental artwork connecting women, trees and climate action. I joined as a Coventry Anchor Woman in 2021 and remain involved.

A collaborative exhibition linking Art Riot Collective and Escape Arts with artists Mim and Roo, building on relationships formed through Turner Prize 2021.

Studio research with Daniel Lismore shaped a community programme inviting Coventry groups to create life size figures through layered materials and personal objects.

A citywide Turner Prize 2021 legacy project bringing more than 280 community banners together at the Herbert through shared making and collective voice.

Community engagement for Turner Prize 2021 at the Herbert, connecting Coventry communities with the five shortlisted collectives through access, visits and participation.

A participatory heritage project exploring Derbyshire’s flax and linen history through archival research, seed sharing, material handling and community making.

Four community groups worked as artist collectives in response to Larry Achiampong’s Pan African Flag, exploring identity, belonging and collective flag making.

A shared growing space at the Herbert shaped through building, planting, nature based workshops, mosaic making and conversations about local heritage.

At Coventry's Beneath The Trees festival, I invited visitors to build a phoenix wing textile banner from donated curtain fabric, denim offcuts and reused cloth.

An artist residency with foundation students in Nuneaton, testing collaborative banner making and participation methods that later helped shape the Coventry Banner.