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

