How to clean and care for textile artwork.

Most of us have snippets of fabrics in our stash that are too small to use for projects but too precious to throw away. Rather than leave them in a drawer they can be used in many meaningful ways.

Preparing sheep fleece for spinning through combing.

In May my solo exhibition Identity shows at Bottleworks in Newcastle. The exhibition explores the themes of identity and personality through emboidery and textiles. Stitch is the act of piecing things together; and through it, I piece together thoughts on identity and personality. The exhibition asks why we change our personality in different situations, and whether this is always for justifiable reasons. Just as the artworks are stitched together, the viewer pieces together

The Spirit of Wakefield, a community arts project creating a textile art installation with young people. Commissioned by Wakefield Museums

Having space to be creative is important; be that a physical space, time to be creative or emotional space to be creative.

That's not an easy question to answer as every artist is different; some work as a full time artist and some have other jobs. Each artist has their own way of working. Some artists have help to do tasks such as admin and marketing and others do everything themselves. Whatever the individual artist's situation, one thing is for sure it's not spending all day everyday creating artwork! There will inevitably be tasks like applying for events, sending emails and more that only th

Commissioning an artist to create a personal and bespoke piece of artwork for you is a way of having a truly unique piece of artwork.

Values and making artwork that aligns with those values is very fulfilling, but not always easy to do. Sometimes those values that are very important mean that you have to turn down work or a commission or that you can't use the latest new thing or invention that is all over social media. We all have values and they are different for each person; some people may feel it is important to be sustainable whereas others find this less important. We may have similar values, but how

Research based arts practice is a term that is heard often, but what exactly does it mean?

Embroidery on unusual materials adds interest and meaning to textile artwork. Paper stitching, embroidery on balsa wood and metal.

Traditional Tudor blackwork embroidery as part of PhD research into experiences of recreating embroidered collections.

Exhibiting at Threads Festival, Sunny Bank Mills in Leeds. Visit to Tailored an exhibition by the 62 Group.

An artist collaboration.