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Project Overview

Creative Projects | Rooted In Place, Heritage & Community

About My Projects

I am a contemporary community textile artist in Derbyshire exploring how heritage, place and wellbeing can be woven together through fibre. My projects celebrate local stories and collective making, connecting people through shared materials and sustainable textile practices. From flax and rope making to mindful stitching and creative activism, each project grows from collaboration and curiosity. Read more about my background on the CV Page.

I've grouped my projects around themes that matter most to me: creative wellbeing, community voice, heritage and legacy. These strands reflect both my lived practice and the priorities of Arts Council England's Let's Create strategy - showing how textile work can connect place, people, and possibility.

To collaborate or share a heritage story, visit the Contact Page.

Contemporary Community Textile Artist Derbyshire

Contemporary Community Textile Artist Derbyshire

Contemporary Community Textile Artist Derbyshire

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Nature, Wellbeing & Creative Health

These projects explore the quiet, nurturing power of making. Whether walking through forests or stitching mindfully, I use natural fibres and repurposed material to support reflection, wellbeing and environmental care.

Walking Forest: Art, Nature, Activism

A creative climate justice movement connecting women, land and story through ritual, fibre and protest.

Beneath The Trees Festival

Participatory textile project creating space for reflection, voice and creative confidence across generations.

Mindful Stitching Techniques

A series of calm, inclusive workshops where we stitched with intention; using thread as a tool for wellbeing.

Community Voice

Community Voice & Social Change

Through textiles, I create spaces for dialogue, resistance, and collective hope. These projects focus on gender justice, radical kindness, and reimagining how we care for one another and the world.

International Women's Day Clootie Event

Collaborative textile installation inspired by culture, place and seasonal connection.

The Coventry Clootie Lantern

A large scale community sculpture built from recycled fabric and light | symbolising hope, loss and renewal.

Advice To Your 15-Year-Old Self

Participatory project inviting women to stitch and reflect on their teenage selves honouring hindsight and healing.

Heritage & Place

Heritage, Place & Identity

I'm passionate about uncovering the textile stories hidden in our landscapes. These works explore local craft, working-class voices, and the legacy of making, all rooted in the everyday creativity of place.

Riddings Community Flax Project

Reimaging Derbyshire's forgotten flax heritage through growing, making and community storytelling.

The Herbert's Community Garden

Nature connected creativity and textiles in a shared garden space for wellbeing and intergenerational exchange.

The Turner Prize | Array's Legacy

Community response exploring political power and collective resistance through Array Collective.

Creative Legacy

My featured work brings together flax heritage, community participation, creative evaluation, and contemporary textile practice. Each installation explores local identity, shared memory, and the role of co-created textiles in reawakening place-based stories.

CV Download

Exhibitions & Creativity Legacy

Some projects grow quietly. Others shine on national stages. This work showcased how community-rooted textile practice can contribute to wider cultural legacy and civic pride.