BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Born in eMalahleni (Witbank), South Africa, 1983
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
MA Constructed Textiles — Royal College of Art, 2008
BA (Hons) Embroidery — Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design — Stafford College, 2001
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Shaped by Time — Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, UK, 2022
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
ThreadFlux — White Conduit Projects, London, UKThe Sun and the Moon — Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
A Moment for Eternity — Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
Collect 2026 — Cavaliero Finn, Somerset House, London, UK
Platform: The Unexpected — curated by Dr Ferren Gipson, London Art Fair, UK
2025
An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas — White Conduit Projects, London, UK
Cheongju Craft Biennale — Cheongju, South Korea
Collect 2025 — Cavaliero Finn, Somerset House, London, UK
Lions & Unicorns — White Conduit Projects, curated by Lol Sargent, London, UK
2024
Objects of Contemplation — Make Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
20 Years — Cavaliero Finn, London, UK
On Tenderness & Time — curated by Jenn Ellis, presented by Xenia, London, UK
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize — Bournemouth, Plymouth and Wigan, UK
Inspired — Ruup & Form, Collect International Art Fair, London, UK
2023
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize — London, UK
Threads: Breathing Stories into Materials — Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
House Guests — David Parr House, Cambridge, UK
Elemental Lines — Cavaliero Finn, Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, UK
In Quest for Harmony — Ruup & Form, Collect International Art Fair, London, UK
Into the Night — Cavaliero Finn, London Art Fair, UK
2022
Sixty Drawings + Ten — The Whitaker, Manchester, UK
Conversations — The 62 Group, St Barbe's Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, UK
Essence — The 62 Group, London & Harrogate, UK
2021
Definitions of Drawing — Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, UKConnected Cloth — British Textile Biennial, The Whitaker, UK
Monochrome — Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK
2020
Of Time and Place — Living Object, London, UK
25 Years — Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
Ten — Unit Twelve, Stafford, UK
2019
RE-NEW — Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
David Gates: In Dialogue — Make Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
COS Series IV — Coal Drops Yard, London, UK
Construct — The 62 Group, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, UK
The Future of Craft — London, UK
Crafting New Perspectives — Culturesphere, Gmund Büttenpapierfabrik, Germany
Future Icons — London Art Fair, UK
Retail Space — Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
2018
Loewe Craft Prize — The Design Museum, London, UK
Stitch — Daniel Raphael, London, UK
Is It Useful? — Unit Twelve, Stafford, UK
Monochrome — Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK
5x10 — Rolfe Judd Architects, London, UK
The Uppermost Layer — Jaggedart, London, UK
2017
Craft Forms — Wayne Art Center, USA
Make_Shift — Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK
Form + Motion — UK Pavilion, British Council & Crafts Council, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, South Korea
Drawing Open — No Format Gallery, London, UK
Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival — Crafts Council, Picture House Central, London, UK
Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects — Crafts Council, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize — Turnpike Art Centre, Leigh & The Gallery, Poole, UK
The Thread Unraveled — V.M. Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2016
White Show — Clotworthy House Art Centre, Northern Ireland
Jerwood Drawing Prize — Jerwood Space, London, UK
Making Space — The 62 Group of Textile Artists, Macclesfield, UK
Hand/Work — Bílskúrsgallerý, Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
Excellence in Fibre — USA
2015
Craft Forms — Wayne Art Center, USA
Cheongju International Craft Biennale — South Korea
White Show — Flow Gallery, London, UK
2014
Microtopia — Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK
The Geometrics — Slow Textiles Group, Textiles Hub, London, UK
2011
Jerwood Drawing Prize — Jerwood Space, London, UK
2007Mixtacity — Nigel Coates, Tate Modern, London, UK
AWARDS
Cheongju Craft Biennale, Bronze Award, 2025Cove Park Residency, 2025–26
a-n Bursary, 2025
Resident Artist — Make Hauser & Wirth, Braemar, Scotland, 2024
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Finalist, 2023
Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, Shortlisted, 2023
Cockpit Textile Prize, 2023
Resident Artist — Xenia Creative Retreat, Hampshire, UK, 2023
Cockpit Arts / Newby Trust Craft Excellence Award, 2019
Loewe Craft Prize, Finalist, 2018
Arts Council England Collect Open, Selected Artist, 2017
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Finalist, 2016
West Dean Tapestry Commission, Longlisted, 2016
Resident Artist — Textilsetur Íslands, Blönduós, Iceland, 2016
Cheongju International Craft Competition, Finalist, 2015
Jurors Award — Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, 2015
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Finalist, 2011
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Edge of Forever — Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2026
Happening — Korean Craft Museum, South Korea, permanent collection, 2025
Permutations — Huddersfield Art Gallery, acquired through the Contemporary Art Society Omega Fund, 2022
TALKS
Platform: Material Innovation & The Unexpected — chaired by Laura Moseley, London Art Fair, 2026
Mapping Heat: Textiles, Coal and Time — PARSE Conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2025
In Pursuit of Luxury: Honest Luxury — Ravensbourne University, London, 2025
Loewe Foundation — artist talk and panel discussion, Somerset House, London, 2025
Timescapes: Perspectives on Process — Tatter, USA, 2025
Textile + Place Conference — talk and panel discussion, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2023
Unravelling Threads — panel discussion with Gemma Brace & Alice Kettle, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2023
Sew Inclusive: Male & Non-Binary Artists in Conversation — Woven Textile Festival, Huddersfield, 2023
Radical Acts Symposium — panel discussion with Natalie Melton, Harewood House, 2022
Material Lives — Artefact, panel discussion with Grant Gibson, London, 2022
Definitions of Drawing — panel discussion with Courtney Spencer, Leeds, 2021
The Potential of Stitch — The Textile Society, 2021
The Skill of Narrative & Stitched Textiles — keynote, Fashion & Textiles Museum, London, 2021
Possibilities of Fibre Art — organised by Tai Ping, chaired by Grant Gibson, London, 2020
Textile Artists in Conversation — Raystitch, London, 2019
Crafts Council: Home and Abroad — panel discussion, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2017
Inspiring the Future — various locations, 2016–present
PODCASTS
In Pursuit of Luxury, November 2024Unravelling Threads — with Gemma Brace & Alice Kettle, Arnolfini, 2023
Material Matters with Grant Gibson, May 2022
Making Meaning — Ruth Singer Podcast, July 2021
Pursuit of Beauty, In Stitches — presented by Amber Butchart, BBC Radio 4, November 2018
Rial Talk — Materials Podcast with Anna Ploszajski, August 2018
PUBLICATIONS
Record, Map and Capture in Textile Art — Batsford, 2022
Textile Travels — Batsford, 2020
Thread: Contemporary Embroidered Art — Thames & Hudson, 2019
De Fil en Aiguille: Embroidery Art — Pyramyd Editions, 2018
Dimensional Cloth — Andra Stanton, 2018
Textile Landscapes — Cas Holmes
Hand Stitch Perspectives — Alice Kettle & Jane McKeating, Bloomsbury Press, 2012
COMMISSIONS / PROJECTS
Royal Academy of Arts — Sketch with Stitch, 2025
Crafts Council x Toast — Renewal, 2021
Store Store x Barbican, 2020
Late at Tate Britain — Tate Collective, 2020
Institute of Making, UCL, 2018–2020
Mulberry — Take Root Branch Out, 2020
COS, 2019
Toast — RE-NEW, 2019
Cheltenham Science Festival, 2019
Rolfe Judd Architects, 2018
The Big Draw — Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, London, 2016
PRESS
The Design Edit - Profile and interview by Emma Crichton-Miller - February 2026
Less is More - Selvedge Magazine - Interview by Katerina Knight - February 2026
Curators Choice - Art Aurea Magazine - Germany - Summer 2025
The Interconnectedness of Life and Cosmos - January 2025
Granules of Time - Handwerken Magazine - Netherlands - 2025
Material Source - August - 2024
Six Textile Artist to invest in - Homes & Gardens - 2024
Hole & Corner - In conversation - October - 2023
Muji - Craft your comfort - Artist Profile - October 2023
Financial Times - Contemporary Embroidery - August 2023
Spectator - Threads: Arnolfini - August 2023
Sixtysix Magazine - 13 Textile Artists Pushing the Medium Forward - July 2023
See Sew - Brother Japan - February 2023
Crafts Magazine - Cotton Artist Spotlight - October 2022
Embroidery - Review of solo exhibition - April 2022
A Stitch in Time - Oliver Spencer in conversation with Richard McVetis - April 2022
Labour of Love - Interview by Craig Mclean for Hole & Corner - January 2022
Toast Magazine - Reviving and Reinventing - May 2021
Tatter Journal - The Vastness of Minutia - May 2021
Embroidery - My Space - March / April 2020
Turnball & Asser - Off the Cuff - September 2020
Interview - Jamie Chalmers (Mr X Stitch) - July 2020
TOAST x Kettles Yard - November 2019
TOAST Magazine - RE-NEW at Kettles Yard - October 2019
Korean Craft + Design Foundation - Special Feature - July 2019
Evening Standard - Gallery Walls - March 2019
Wilma Journal - December Distilled - December 2018
Textile Artist - From Concept to Creation - Nov 2017
Uppercase Magazine - Making Time - Oct 2017
Wearables Magazine - Inspiration - June 2017
Embroidery Magazine - Making Time - May/ June 2017
Textile Artist - Creating texture and pattern with Stitch - April 2017Crafts Magazine - Collect Guide - Open to ideas by Imogen Greenhalgh - Feb 2017
House & Garden - Preview the talent at Collect - Jan 2017
Inspirations Magazine - Issue 91 - Sept 2016
Embroidery Magazine - Sept/Oct 2016
House & Garden - Buying Art Dec 2015
Inspirational - Nov 2015
Embroidery Magazine - Nov/Dec 2015
Crafts Magazine - July/August 2005MEMBERSHIP & AFFILIATIONS
Brother - The Art Workers Guild
Artisan - Homo Faber
TEACHING
Interim Co-Head of Programme, MA Textiles — Royal College of Art, 2025–present
Tutor (Research), MA Textiles — Royal College of Art, 2017–2025
Opponent, MFA Craft — HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design, Sweden
Tutor — West Dean College of Arts and Conservation
VISITING LECTURER
Royal College of Art, MA Textiles, 2017–2022
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, MA Textiles, 2022–present
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, Graduate Diploma Textile Design, 2022–present
Royal School of Needlework, BA Embroidery, 2022
Loughborough University, BA Textile Design, 2022
Manchester Metropolitan University, BA Textiles in Practice, 2021
Buckinghamshire University, BA Textile Design, 2019
De Montfort University, BA Design Crafts, 2017
WORKSHOPS & PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS
Institute of Making, UCL, 2018–2021
Tate Britain, Tate Collective, 2021
West Dean College, 2017–present
Freelance — national and international venues, 2011–present, including South London Gallery, Kettle's Yard, Jerwood Arts, Toast, Store Store, Raystitch and Loop
MENTORING
Arts Emergency, 2023
New Designers, 2021–2023