SELECTED WORKSHOPS and TEACHING
2018 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA, also 2017-2015)
FeltWest, Perth WA
Wearable Art Mandurah, Mandurah Western Australia
WAFTA - Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Perth WA
2017 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA
Handweavers & Spinners Guild of Victoria, Melbourne
Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Perth WA
Designing Women, Perth WA
Felters in the Great Southern, Denmark WA
Southern Forest Arts, Northcliffe WA
Feltwest, Perth WA
2016 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA (also 2015)
West Coast Wilderness Fibre Art Retreat, Tullah Tasmania (also 2014)
Felt Study Group, Hobart Tasmania
Artist-in-Residence, Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria
Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Busselton and Perth, Western Australia
Great Southern Workshops, Mt. Barker, Western Australia
Felt Study Group, Pittsford NY, USA (also 2014)
Felt so Right, Plainwell MI, USA (also 2014)
Felt Study Group, Portland CT, USA (also 2014)
Wrapt in Rocky, Rockhampton Queensland
Feltwest, Perth Western Australia
CASM Contemporary Art Space Mandurah Western Australia
EFTAG, Tuross Head NSW
Margaret River Resource Centre - Felt Study Group, Western Australia
Alexander Park Craft House, Menora Western Australia
2015 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA
Canberra Region Feltmakers, Canberra ACT
The Illawarra Felters, Shellharbour NSW
Feltmakers in the Great Southern, Denmark, WA
2014 Newcastle Art Bazaar, Newcastle, NSW (Yurt Project)
Lake Grace Artists' Group, Lake Grace Western Australia (2 workshops and artist in residency)
International Feltmakers Association, Surrey, UK
Atelier Fiberfusing, Holland
Portland (CT), Plainwell (MI) and Rochester (NY) USA
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton NJ, USA
Harrisville Designs, Harrisville NH, USA
Illawarra Feltmakers Inc., Shellcove, NSW
Moruya Felting Group, Moruya/Tuross, NSW
West Coast Wilderness Fibre Arts, Tullah Tasmania
2013 Tucson Handweavers & Spinners Guild, Arizona USA (also 2011 & 2012)
Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Harrisville Designs, New Hampshire
Halcyon Yarn, Maine, USA (also 2010-12)
Columbia Weavers & Spinners Guild, Missouri USA (also 2012)
Dyeology, Delaware Ohio, USA
Suzanne Morgan Studio, Dallas Texas, USA
Palmetto Fiber Guild, Charleston South Carolina, USA
The 12th Southern Hemisphere Feltmaking Convergence, Stanwell Tops,
Australia - Invited National Guest & Teacher
Sunraysia Spinners & Weavers, Mildura Australia
Grampians Texture, Victoria Australia (also 2012)
Bothwell International Highland Spin-in, Tasmania
The Canberra Region Feltmakers, Canberra Australia
2012 Grampians Texture, Victoria, Australia
Hand-weavers & Spinners Guild Tucson, Arizona, USA
Peters Valley Craft Center, New Jersey, USA
ABC Ranch, Missouri, USA
Halcyon Yarn, Maine USA
Marlene's Felting Madness, Ohio USA
Women's City Club, New Hampshire, USA
Northeast Felters, Connecticut USA
The Victorian Feltmakers, Melbourne Australia
2011 Halcyon Yarn, Maine USA
New England Felting Supplies, Massachusetts USA
Spirited Hands Studio, Tucson, Arizona USA
Marlene's Felting Madness, Ohio USA
Northeast Felters, Connecticut USA
The Victorian Feltmakers, Melbourne Australia
The Canberra Region Feltmakers, Canberra Australia
2010 Halcyon Yarn, Maine USA
New England Felting Supplies, Massachusetts USA
2009 Private workshops, Perth, Australia (also 2001-08)
2002 Albany Residential Summer School, Western Australia (also 2001)
2000 Artist In Residence, International Fibre Conference, Mittagong, Australia
1998 International Textile Fibre Forum Conference, Mittagong, Australia
The Victorian Feltmakers, Victoria (also 1995-'97)
Bunbury Felters Guild, Western Australia (also 1996-'97)
Melbourne School of Millinery
1997 Saint Petersburg State Arts Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia
The International Feltmakers Association (workshops in Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Surrey), United Kingdom (UK)
Viltgroep, The Netherlands
The University of Melbourne (also 1995-'96)
1990 Melbourne Institute of Textiles (also 1989)
~~~~~
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Family Matters, International Exhibition (in print), juried, Surface Design Association USA
Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah, Mandurah Western Australia (also Curator)
2017 Altered States, Perth Town Hall, Western Australia (also curator)
2016 Memory & Commemoration (Touring), Lake Grace Regional Arts Space, Lake Grace WA and GeoArts Bussleton WA
2015 Memory & Commemoration, Perth Convention Centre, Western Australia
2013 Feltportation, Wollongong University FCA Gallery
My Artful Journey, WA Craft Show, Claremont, Western Australia
2012 Felternative, Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Melbourne
2011 Felternative, The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne
2011 Textile Fibre FORUM, Victoria and New South Wales, Australia (also 2006-10)
2011 Beanie Central, Alice Springs (also 2007-2010)
2001 An Odyssey, Lesmurdie, Western Australia
2000 Wrapping up the Millenium, Mount Pleasant, South Australia
1999 The Felt Clothesline, Deakin University Sheep & Wool World Congress, Geelong
Rebirth; Western Australian Women Celebrating a Century of Change, Fremantle
Rebirth (selected works), Mandurah Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia
1998 The Victorian Feltmakers, Metro Craft Centre, Melbourne
Feltwest, Perth, Australia
1997 White Nights International Textile Exhibition, St. Petersburg, Russia
Women '97, The Mechanics Institute, Brunswick, Melbourne
Felt Inspired, Metro Craft Centre, Melbourne
1996 Convergence, International Felt exhibition, Portland, Oregon, USA
Felt Adventure, Inspirations Gallery, Hepburn Springs, Victoria
1990 Five Women, The Women's Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Graduation, International Wool House, Parkville, Victoria
Permaset Print Exhibition, Brookville, New South Wales
1988 World Weavers Wall, International Tapestry Symposium, Melbourne
~~~~~
SELECTED ARTICLES, BOOKS and MEDIA (authored/published)
2019 - (forthcoming) Standing Tall: a HeartFELT Reflection, Surface Design Association - blog
- Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, review, TEXTILE FIBRE FORUM, issue 133
2018 - SDA Journal, International Exhibition in Print Family Matters (winter issue)
- FELT, issues 19 & 20, contributor and editor
- Catalogue Essay, Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, Mandurah Western Australia
- Altered States - exhibition review, TEXTILE FIBRE FORUM, issue 129
2017 - FELT, issues 18 & 17, contributor and editor
2016 - Worldwide Colours of Felt, ed. Ellen Bakker
- Flourishing Felt, FELT, issue 15
- Treasure(d) Nests and the Essence of Time, Felt Matters, issue 125
2015 - Enchantment in Felting: Reflections on a Process that Rewards Spontaneity, FELT, issue 14
- 10 QUESTIONS to Martien van Zuilen (Australia, via Holland), VILTKONTAKT, June issue
- Fragments and Slivers - Colourful Jewellery in Hand-made Felt, threads.In-fusion, issue 9, June.
http://www.thethreadstudio.com/catalogue/infusion/text.htm
2014 - Pots & Pods for Feltmakers: Adventures in the Third Dimension, CD-book, www.textilesanyone.com.au
2013 - Showcase 500 Art Necklaces (500 Series), Lark Crafts
- The Heartbeat of Felting, verFilzt Und zugeNäht (FUN), issue 1/14
2012 - (Heart)FELT Mandala: the art of slow work with colour, design and surface decoration, FELT, volume 12, issue 8
- Felt Making across the Globe, Fiber Art Now, vol. 1 (issue 2)
2011 - Felt Matters - exhibition review and front cover, IFA, issue 105
2011 - Have Yurt, Will Travel (The story of Martien Van Zuilen), Valley Fiber Life (online US magazine)
2001 - The Art of the Yurt: Australia meets Mongolia, in Yurts, Tipis and Benders, (ed. David Pearson), Gaia Books
- Nomadic Shelters; an ongoing passion, Textile Fibre Forum #63
2000 - The Next Wish; the Alachikh, Textile Fibre Forum no. 60
- Layered Messages in Felt, Feltlines, The Victorian Feltmakers
- Under Moonlit Skies - a Forum Installation, Textile Fibre Forum #59
1999 - Feltmaking from Mongolia to Australia, International Feltmakers Magazine #56
- Have Yurt, Will Travel, Conference Proceedings of the World Congress on Black & Coloured Sheep
1998 - Have Yurt, Will Travel; the National Forum Yurt Project, Textile Fibre Forum #63
1996 - Artist Profile, Felt/Filt, issue 1
- Felt Cocoon - Footwear, Felt/Filt, issue 1
- A Natural Feeling for Felt, The Weekly Times, July
1994 - Focus on Artist, International Feltmakers Magazine #36
1990 - Hoechst Textile Award; the Finalists, Hoechst Report, vol 19 ( issue 1)
~~~~~
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2019 Albany Summer School, Albany Western Australia (also 2018)
2018 Handweavers, Spinners & Dyers Guild of Western Australia, Perth
2016 Grampians Texture, Grampians Arts, Halls Gap, Victoria
The Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association, Perth
2014 Rochester Fibre Arts, New York, USA
2013 Columbia Weavers & Spinners Guild, Missouri USA
Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio USA
2012 Tucson Hand-weavers & Spinners Guild, Arizona, USA
2011 The Victorian Feltmakers, Annual General Meeting, Melbourne
The Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association, Perth
Felters Gathering, Ohio USA
2010 New England Felting Supplies, Massachusetts, USA
Northeast Felters Guild, Burlington VT, USA
2009 Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney
2008 Networks of Design Conference, Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK
International Conference on the Arts in Society, Birmingham, UK
Vision, Memory, Spectacle - AGWSA Conference, University of Western Australia
National Birthright Quilt Project, Murdoch University, Perth
2007 International Textile Fibre Forum Conference, Orange, Australia
2006 The University of Western Australia, Perth
1999 National Symposium on Central Asian Textiles, Melbourne
5th World Congress on Black & Coloured Sheep, Deakin University, Australia
1998 5th Southern Hemisphere Feltmakers Conference, Adelaide, Australia
1997 Talking Textiles Symposium, City of Glen Eira, Melbourne
~~~~~
ARTIST in RESIDENCIES, COMMUNITY ARTS & ADVISORY WORK
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria
2013- present Convenor, Fibres West Inc. www.fibreswest.com.au
2008-2012 The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Board of Directors
2007-08 Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association, steering committee
2006-2011 The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, staff member international Fibre Forum conferences
2001 Bothwell International Highland Spin-in, Tasmania, Australia, National Guest - artist in residence (also 1999)
1999 Golden Outback Festival, Mt Magnet, Western Australia, artist in residence
Euroa Fibre Festival, Victoria, artist in residence
Ruffy Yurt Fibre Festival, Victoria, artist in residence
1998-present The Australian National Yurt Project - founder and coordinator
1998-99 World Congress on Black & Coloured Sheep - steering committee and
coordinator week-long international fibre art workshop program
1997 Feltmaking in Australia - a slide-kit featuring 32 Australian artists, organizer and editor
1995 The Victorian Feltmakers - founder, president (1995-97), editor (1995-97)
1990 The Women's Gallery, Melbourne, exhibitions assistant
1989-90 Handweavers & Spinners Guild of Victoria, main & exhibition committees
~~~~~
SELECTED ACADEMIC PAPERS (authored and presented)
2009 - A Matter of Cloth, Yarns and Words; materializing time and engagement through the eye of a needle, AAS Conference, Sydney
2008 - Three stitches of separation and many connecting threads; the cultural fabric of relative strangers among textile artists in
Australia, Networks of Design Conference, Falmouth, UK
- Knit one, purl one 'Down Under'; unraveling theory and practice in contemporary Australian textile arts,
Arts in Society Conference, Birmingham, UK
- Locating the F-word through the eye of a needle; unpicking creative textile practice and feminist theory in
contemporary Australia, AWGSA, Perth, Aus.
2005 - Fabric-ation of the Steppes; material culture and gendered representations of Mongolian culture and society;
Honours (US Masters) Dissertation, University of Western Australia
~~~~~
SELECTED HONORS and AWARDS
2006 - Hackett PhD Scholarship (3 years) The University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Women's Service Guild Scholarship (3 years) for research benefiting the interests of women in Western Australia
- Wood Memorial Prize and H. Bailey Award - top-ranking graduand UWA
2005 - Cultural Excellence Award, UWA, nomination
- Nation-wide runner-up for Best Honours Thesis in 2005, as judged by the Australian Anthropological Society.
2002 - Graduates Association Prize in Arts, Asian Studies, UWA
2001 - The Millennial Award for Arts Scholarship, top-ranking entry into UWA
1997 - The Victorian Feltmakers Inc., Life Membership awarded
1989 - Hoechst National Textile Award - finalist
- Permaset National Textile Printing Award -- finalist
- Melbourne Institute of Textiles, most outstanding student (also 1988)
~~~~~
EDUCATION
2013 PhD Anthropology, The University of Western Australia
2005 1st class Honours degree (US Masters) Anthropology, The University of Western Australia. High Distinction
1997 Felt Research tour - Mongolia, Denmark and Russia
1989 Associate Diploma in Art - Studio Textiles, Melbourne Institute of Textiles
1983 Social Work Degree, The Netherlands
~~~~~
2018 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA, also 2017-2015)
FeltWest, Perth WA
Wearable Art Mandurah, Mandurah Western Australia
WAFTA - Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Perth WA
2017 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA
Handweavers & Spinners Guild of Victoria, Melbourne
Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Perth WA
Designing Women, Perth WA
Felters in the Great Southern, Denmark WA
Southern Forest Arts, Northcliffe WA
Feltwest, Perth WA
2016 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA (also 2015)
West Coast Wilderness Fibre Art Retreat, Tullah Tasmania (also 2014)
Felt Study Group, Hobart Tasmania
Artist-in-Residence, Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria
Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Busselton and Perth, Western Australia
Great Southern Workshops, Mt. Barker, Western Australia
Felt Study Group, Pittsford NY, USA (also 2014)
Felt so Right, Plainwell MI, USA (also 2014)
Felt Study Group, Portland CT, USA (also 2014)
Wrapt in Rocky, Rockhampton Queensland
Feltwest, Perth Western Australia
CASM Contemporary Art Space Mandurah Western Australia
EFTAG, Tuross Head NSW
Margaret River Resource Centre - Felt Study Group, Western Australia
Alexander Park Craft House, Menora Western Australia
2015 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA
Canberra Region Feltmakers, Canberra ACT
The Illawarra Felters, Shellharbour NSW
Feltmakers in the Great Southern, Denmark, WA
2014 Newcastle Art Bazaar, Newcastle, NSW (Yurt Project)
Lake Grace Artists' Group, Lake Grace Western Australia (2 workshops and artist in residency)
International Feltmakers Association, Surrey, UK
Atelier Fiberfusing, Holland
Portland (CT), Plainwell (MI) and Rochester (NY) USA
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton NJ, USA
Harrisville Designs, Harrisville NH, USA
Illawarra Feltmakers Inc., Shellcove, NSW
Moruya Felting Group, Moruya/Tuross, NSW
West Coast Wilderness Fibre Arts, Tullah Tasmania
2013 Tucson Handweavers & Spinners Guild, Arizona USA (also 2011 & 2012)
Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Harrisville Designs, New Hampshire
Halcyon Yarn, Maine, USA (also 2010-12)
Columbia Weavers & Spinners Guild, Missouri USA (also 2012)
Dyeology, Delaware Ohio, USA
Suzanne Morgan Studio, Dallas Texas, USA
Palmetto Fiber Guild, Charleston South Carolina, USA
The 12th Southern Hemisphere Feltmaking Convergence, Stanwell Tops,
Australia - Invited National Guest & Teacher
Sunraysia Spinners & Weavers, Mildura Australia
Grampians Texture, Victoria Australia (also 2012)
Bothwell International Highland Spin-in, Tasmania
The Canberra Region Feltmakers, Canberra Australia
2012 Grampians Texture, Victoria, Australia
Hand-weavers & Spinners Guild Tucson, Arizona, USA
Peters Valley Craft Center, New Jersey, USA
ABC Ranch, Missouri, USA
Halcyon Yarn, Maine USA
Marlene's Felting Madness, Ohio USA
Women's City Club, New Hampshire, USA
Northeast Felters, Connecticut USA
The Victorian Feltmakers, Melbourne Australia
2011 Halcyon Yarn, Maine USA
New England Felting Supplies, Massachusetts USA
Spirited Hands Studio, Tucson, Arizona USA
Marlene's Felting Madness, Ohio USA
Northeast Felters, Connecticut USA
The Victorian Feltmakers, Melbourne Australia
The Canberra Region Feltmakers, Canberra Australia
2010 Halcyon Yarn, Maine USA
New England Felting Supplies, Massachusetts USA
2009 Private workshops, Perth, Australia (also 2001-08)
2002 Albany Residential Summer School, Western Australia (also 2001)
2000 Artist In Residence, International Fibre Conference, Mittagong, Australia
1998 International Textile Fibre Forum Conference, Mittagong, Australia
The Victorian Feltmakers, Victoria (also 1995-'97)
Bunbury Felters Guild, Western Australia (also 1996-'97)
Melbourne School of Millinery
1997 Saint Petersburg State Arts Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia
The International Feltmakers Association (workshops in Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Surrey), United Kingdom (UK)
Viltgroep, The Netherlands
The University of Melbourne (also 1995-'96)
1990 Melbourne Institute of Textiles (also 1989)
~~~~~
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Family Matters, International Exhibition (in print), juried, Surface Design Association USA
Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah, Mandurah Western Australia (also Curator)
2017 Altered States, Perth Town Hall, Western Australia (also curator)
2016 Memory & Commemoration (Touring), Lake Grace Regional Arts Space, Lake Grace WA and GeoArts Bussleton WA
2015 Memory & Commemoration, Perth Convention Centre, Western Australia
2013 Feltportation, Wollongong University FCA Gallery
My Artful Journey, WA Craft Show, Claremont, Western Australia
2012 Felternative, Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Melbourne
2011 Felternative, The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne
2011 Textile Fibre FORUM, Victoria and New South Wales, Australia (also 2006-10)
2011 Beanie Central, Alice Springs (also 2007-2010)
2001 An Odyssey, Lesmurdie, Western Australia
2000 Wrapping up the Millenium, Mount Pleasant, South Australia
1999 The Felt Clothesline, Deakin University Sheep & Wool World Congress, Geelong
Rebirth; Western Australian Women Celebrating a Century of Change, Fremantle
Rebirth (selected works), Mandurah Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia
1998 The Victorian Feltmakers, Metro Craft Centre, Melbourne
Feltwest, Perth, Australia
1997 White Nights International Textile Exhibition, St. Petersburg, Russia
Women '97, The Mechanics Institute, Brunswick, Melbourne
Felt Inspired, Metro Craft Centre, Melbourne
1996 Convergence, International Felt exhibition, Portland, Oregon, USA
Felt Adventure, Inspirations Gallery, Hepburn Springs, Victoria
1990 Five Women, The Women's Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Graduation, International Wool House, Parkville, Victoria
Permaset Print Exhibition, Brookville, New South Wales
1988 World Weavers Wall, International Tapestry Symposium, Melbourne
~~~~~
SELECTED ARTICLES, BOOKS and MEDIA (authored/published)
2019 - (forthcoming) Standing Tall: a HeartFELT Reflection, Surface Design Association - blog
- Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, review, TEXTILE FIBRE FORUM, issue 133
2018 - SDA Journal, International Exhibition in Print Family Matters (winter issue)
- FELT, issues 19 & 20, contributor and editor
- Catalogue Essay, Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, Mandurah Western Australia
- Altered States - exhibition review, TEXTILE FIBRE FORUM, issue 129
2017 - FELT, issues 18 & 17, contributor and editor
2016 - Worldwide Colours of Felt, ed. Ellen Bakker
- Flourishing Felt, FELT, issue 15
- Treasure(d) Nests and the Essence of Time, Felt Matters, issue 125
2015 - Enchantment in Felting: Reflections on a Process that Rewards Spontaneity, FELT, issue 14
- 10 QUESTIONS to Martien van Zuilen (Australia, via Holland), VILTKONTAKT, June issue
- Fragments and Slivers - Colourful Jewellery in Hand-made Felt, threads.In-fusion, issue 9, June.
http://www.thethreadstudio.com/catalogue/infusion/text.htm
2014 - Pots & Pods for Feltmakers: Adventures in the Third Dimension, CD-book, www.textilesanyone.com.au
2013 - Showcase 500 Art Necklaces (500 Series), Lark Crafts
- The Heartbeat of Felting, verFilzt Und zugeNäht (FUN), issue 1/14
2012 - (Heart)FELT Mandala: the art of slow work with colour, design and surface decoration, FELT, volume 12, issue 8
- Felt Making across the Globe, Fiber Art Now, vol. 1 (issue 2)
2011 - Felt Matters - exhibition review and front cover, IFA, issue 105
2011 - Have Yurt, Will Travel (The story of Martien Van Zuilen), Valley Fiber Life (online US magazine)
2001 - The Art of the Yurt: Australia meets Mongolia, in Yurts, Tipis and Benders, (ed. David Pearson), Gaia Books
- Nomadic Shelters; an ongoing passion, Textile Fibre Forum #63
2000 - The Next Wish; the Alachikh, Textile Fibre Forum no. 60
- Layered Messages in Felt, Feltlines, The Victorian Feltmakers
- Under Moonlit Skies - a Forum Installation, Textile Fibre Forum #59
1999 - Feltmaking from Mongolia to Australia, International Feltmakers Magazine #56
- Have Yurt, Will Travel, Conference Proceedings of the World Congress on Black & Coloured Sheep
1998 - Have Yurt, Will Travel; the National Forum Yurt Project, Textile Fibre Forum #63
1996 - Artist Profile, Felt/Filt, issue 1
- Felt Cocoon - Footwear, Felt/Filt, issue 1
- A Natural Feeling for Felt, The Weekly Times, July
1994 - Focus on Artist, International Feltmakers Magazine #36
1990 - Hoechst Textile Award; the Finalists, Hoechst Report, vol 19 ( issue 1)
~~~~~
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2019 Albany Summer School, Albany Western Australia (also 2018)
2018 Handweavers, Spinners & Dyers Guild of Western Australia, Perth
2016 Grampians Texture, Grampians Arts, Halls Gap, Victoria
The Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association, Perth
2014 Rochester Fibre Arts, New York, USA
2013 Columbia Weavers & Spinners Guild, Missouri USA
Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio USA
2012 Tucson Hand-weavers & Spinners Guild, Arizona, USA
2011 The Victorian Feltmakers, Annual General Meeting, Melbourne
The Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association, Perth
Felters Gathering, Ohio USA
2010 New England Felting Supplies, Massachusetts, USA
Northeast Felters Guild, Burlington VT, USA
2009 Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney
2008 Networks of Design Conference, Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK
International Conference on the Arts in Society, Birmingham, UK
Vision, Memory, Spectacle - AGWSA Conference, University of Western Australia
National Birthright Quilt Project, Murdoch University, Perth
2007 International Textile Fibre Forum Conference, Orange, Australia
2006 The University of Western Australia, Perth
1999 National Symposium on Central Asian Textiles, Melbourne
5th World Congress on Black & Coloured Sheep, Deakin University, Australia
1998 5th Southern Hemisphere Feltmakers Conference, Adelaide, Australia
1997 Talking Textiles Symposium, City of Glen Eira, Melbourne
~~~~~
ARTIST in RESIDENCIES, COMMUNITY ARTS & ADVISORY WORK
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria
2013- present Convenor, Fibres West Inc. www.fibreswest.com.au
2008-2012 The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Board of Directors
2007-08 Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association, steering committee
2006-2011 The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, staff member international Fibre Forum conferences
2001 Bothwell International Highland Spin-in, Tasmania, Australia, National Guest - artist in residence (also 1999)
1999 Golden Outback Festival, Mt Magnet, Western Australia, artist in residence
Euroa Fibre Festival, Victoria, artist in residence
Ruffy Yurt Fibre Festival, Victoria, artist in residence
1998-present The Australian National Yurt Project - founder and coordinator
1998-99 World Congress on Black & Coloured Sheep - steering committee and
coordinator week-long international fibre art workshop program
1997 Feltmaking in Australia - a slide-kit featuring 32 Australian artists, organizer and editor
1995 The Victorian Feltmakers - founder, president (1995-97), editor (1995-97)
1990 The Women's Gallery, Melbourne, exhibitions assistant
1989-90 Handweavers & Spinners Guild of Victoria, main & exhibition committees
~~~~~
SELECTED ACADEMIC PAPERS (authored and presented)
2009 - A Matter of Cloth, Yarns and Words; materializing time and engagement through the eye of a needle, AAS Conference, Sydney
2008 - Three stitches of separation and many connecting threads; the cultural fabric of relative strangers among textile artists in
Australia, Networks of Design Conference, Falmouth, UK
- Knit one, purl one 'Down Under'; unraveling theory and practice in contemporary Australian textile arts,
Arts in Society Conference, Birmingham, UK
- Locating the F-word through the eye of a needle; unpicking creative textile practice and feminist theory in
contemporary Australia, AWGSA, Perth, Aus.
2005 - Fabric-ation of the Steppes; material culture and gendered representations of Mongolian culture and society;
Honours (US Masters) Dissertation, University of Western Australia
~~~~~
SELECTED HONORS and AWARDS
2006 - Hackett PhD Scholarship (3 years) The University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Women's Service Guild Scholarship (3 years) for research benefiting the interests of women in Western Australia
- Wood Memorial Prize and H. Bailey Award - top-ranking graduand UWA
2005 - Cultural Excellence Award, UWA, nomination
- Nation-wide runner-up for Best Honours Thesis in 2005, as judged by the Australian Anthropological Society.
2002 - Graduates Association Prize in Arts, Asian Studies, UWA
2001 - The Millennial Award for Arts Scholarship, top-ranking entry into UWA
1997 - The Victorian Feltmakers Inc., Life Membership awarded
1989 - Hoechst National Textile Award - finalist
- Permaset National Textile Printing Award -- finalist
- Melbourne Institute of Textiles, most outstanding student (also 1988)
~~~~~
EDUCATION
2013 PhD Anthropology, The University of Western Australia
2005 1st class Honours degree (US Masters) Anthropology, The University of Western Australia. High Distinction
1997 Felt Research tour - Mongolia, Denmark and Russia
1989 Associate Diploma in Art - Studio Textiles, Melbourne Institute of Textiles
1983 Social Work Degree, The Netherlands
~~~~~
Contemporary Felt Work and Hand-dyed Fibres
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