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.

Creative Listener commission with Make/Shift in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, developing creative and participatory project evaluation through listening, visual mapping, public testing and making.

Four community groups who had never met worked within a shared flag making framework inspired by Larry Achiampong, exploring identity, belonging and common ground.

Studio research with Daniel Lismore grew into a deep community programme with seven groups, authentic processes, reused materials, exhibition and touring.

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.

Community engagement for Turner Prize 2021 at the Herbert, connecting Coventry communities with five shortlisted collectives through outreach, access, neurodivergent inclusion and lasting relationships.

A deeply personal lockdown textile made from reused cloth, hand stitching and free machine embroidery, exploring vulnerability, protection and where emotional textile work belongs.

Selected as a Coventry Anchor Woman in 2021, I contributed textile and costume thinking, public action and an ongoing relationship with Walking Forest.

A year long portable textile shrine built from found, gifted and repurposed materials, carrying travel, fear, stitched words and the shadow side of making into Coventry Open 2025.

Community outreach for Coventry Open 2023 across Coventry and the West Midlands, taking accessible guidance and practical application support into pubs, clubs, creative venues and sixth forms.

A community garden at the Herbert shaped through growing, Coventry heritage, creative participation and relationships across the city.

At The Risers in Coventry, my Book of Kells textile sculpture stood beside an unfinished collaborative women’s lantern, revealing two very different conditions of making.

An Arts Council England supported participatory textile project connecting more than 100 women and girls through slow stitch, shared words and collective making in 2021.

Artist residency at King Edward VI College in Nuneaton, working across two student cohorts from visible studio practice and textile skills to two collaborative banners for Coventry Moves.

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

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

Helping build David Best’s Sanctuary in Bedworth with Artichoke and Imagineer: an artist volunteer’s account of making, remembrance and watching the memorial burn.

A citywide Turner Prize 2021 legacy project built through outreach, accessible making, public programming, curation and a large scale installation of more than 280 community banners.

A collaborative textile and lantern project carrying women’s stitched messages into Coventry’s Abundance procession, where cloth, light, scale and adaptation reshaped the work.

An international textile relationship with Common Threads Project, from lockdown story cloth learning and stitched responses to supporting and curating a survivor centred exhibition in Westminster.

Supporting Anne Marie Lagram and DASH to stitch the Shropshire PROCESSIONS banner for Cardiff in 2018, and tracing the relationships and cloth that carried on.