Conference/Symposium presentations
- ‘Staging (and restaging) the specific unspecificity of textile (and other) things’, UAL, London, 17.2.12
- ‘Materialising the Grid: Correspondences, Contradictions and Conventions’, Material Evidence Symposium, Corsham Court Centre, University of Bath
- ‘Materialising the Grid’ University of the Arts London, 28.6.10
- ‘Two Cultures’, Textile Society Conference and AGM 2009, Macclesfield, Cheshire, 26.9.09
- Invited visiting artist and conference presentation, St. Petersburg School of Folk Arts 7th -11th November 2007.
- ‘Shades of Grey’, reflections in relation to Minimalism and monochrome painting, Day School - Colour in Textiles, Macclesfield Silk Museum, 7th July 2007.
- Pushing Boundaries symposium on national and international crafts practice, Staffordshire University in collaboration with Craftspace and Designer Maker West Midlands, 16th July 2007
- ‘Continuity of Touch - Textiles as Silent Witness’, Repeat Repeat Conference Paper, University of Chester, 19th, 20th April 2007.
- Breakout group leader Ambiguous Spaces, symposium to accompany the exhibition 2121 The Textile vision of Reiko Sudo and Nuno, University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham, 11.11.05
- Joint presentation with Kyoko Nitta, Through the Surface Symposium, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 22.04.05
- Conference presentation - Creative Dates. A Conference of the North West Art and Design Research Group, 23-24.09.04
- Joint convenor, What’s in the Tin? Research Symposium to mark the launch of the Centre for Practice as Research in the Arts, University College Chester, 27.10.04
- Keynote speaker, Textile Symposium, Celebrating Diversity in Stitch, Ruthin Craft Centre, 2.10.04
- Seminar - Creative Dialogues 2 [joint presentation with Kyoko Nitta as part of Through the Surface, Collaborating Textile Artists from Britain and Japan], Bankfield Museum and Art Gallery, Halifax, 23.7.04
- Keynote speaker, Cheshire Annual Art and Design Conference, Frodsham, Cheshire, 17.01.04
- Seminar presentation, Textile Vocabularies, Innovation in Practice. 29.10.03, Herriot Watt University, Scottish Borders Campus, Galashiels
- Seminar presentation, Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles. Crafts Council, London, 21.10.02.
- ‘Mapping Territories - Defining Contexts’, Nomansland Conference, Bath City College, 23.3.02.
- Kon’texst Locating and Developing Practice, seminar convenor and presentation of paper, Chester College of Higher Education, 6.10.01.
- ‘Exchanging the Planks’ seminar presentation at Textile Forum, Knowle House, Sevenoaks, [Organised by Kent County Council and chaired by Professor Anne Morrell], 5.5.98.
- ‘Three Weeks to Turn 348, Three Years to Turn Intuition Towards Understanding’, Ideas in The Making: Practice in Theory, conference presentation, University of East Anglia/Crafts Council, 25.4.98.
- Textile Matters - a public debate on issues surrounding the production and status of contemporary art. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, [Chaired by Jennifer Harris as part of a programme of event accompanying Flexible 2: Pan European Art], May 1997