Education
Practice led PhD (Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism), artist-in-residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Exhibitions
2024 Inspired at Collect, Ruup & Form
2023 Winter Exhibition, Ruup & Form
Repair Revolution!, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich
2022 The Conceptual Stitch, Concord Centre for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts
Eternally Yours, Somerset House
Together Again, Bridget Harvey for Toast, Somerset House
Collect 2022, with Ruup&Form
Re-Purpose, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2021 Collect 2021 with Ruup&Form (online)
2020 London Craft Week, with Ruup&Form
Mad About Waste at Collect 2020, with Ruup&Form, Somerset House
2019 Repair-Making and the Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum
Fashioned from Nature, Natural History Museum of Denmark
Propositional Practice (solo exhibition), National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford
Fashioned from Nature, Victoria and Albert Museum
2018 A Narrative of Progress: The Camberwell ILEA Collection (co-curating a section and exhibiting) Camberwell Space
Selected Residencies, talks, press and others
2024 Objects of Memory, workshops for Toast, Barbican Centre, London
Booth talk at Collect 2024
2023 Tending To in Vienna, Summer session hosted by the Royal Designers for Industry at
Getting Making – podcast available on all major platforms (funded by CCW Staff Research and the Centre for Circular Design), in conversation on Making Meaning with Ruth Singer
Repair Making - Keynote for Making and Mending conference, British Museum
Work included in the book, Broken by Katie Treggiden
2022 Repair, Privilege and Community (talk), Fix Fest Brussels
Creative Ceramic Repair, workshops for Toast, Somerset House
2021 Repair and the Variable Man (talk) Power to Change Festival, Tate Modern
Back for good: the fine art of repairing things (interview), Observer
In conversation on Circular with Katie Treggiden (podcast)
Repair and Privilege, a Knit15 talk for Wild and Woolly, Unravel Festival
Broken Isn't Bad, activities for the Museum of Childhood
Work included in the book, Resilient Stitch by Claire Wellesley-Smith
2020 Work included in the book, Mend! by Kate Sekules
Wear your repairs with pride: inside the modern mending movement, Financia Times
2019 Getting Making: Understanding Making, Understanding Ourselves (talk), British Council
Maker in Residence, Victoria and Albert Museum
Ceramic Perspectives: Object Focus Tour, Victoria & Albert Museum
Spelman Cups: Attitudes to The Past (essay), Ephemera Journal
Repair-Making in the Museum (research update talks), Victoria & Albert Museum
2018 Repairing Together: Unlearning, Sharing, Changing (talk), Goethe Institute
Repair-Making (Lunchtime Lecture series), Victoria & Albert Museum
A Large Box of Loose Parts (catalogue essay), A Narrative of Progress: The Camberwell ILEA Collection
Hopeful Repair, Repairing Hopefully (blog essay), Restart Project
Jumpers: Truthful Fictional Auto/Biographies of Practice (talk), Textile and Place, Manchester School of Art
2017 Redesigning Repair? History – Culture – Politic (talk), Chelsea College of Art
Lecturing and Research
Lecturer, MA Designer Maker, Camberwell College of Arts
MA Textile Design, Chelsea College of Art
MA Design, Goldsmiths University