Selected Resume (2022)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2013 PhD Anthropology, The University of Western Australia; Thesis: Through the Eye of a Needle: Ethnographic Engagements with Textile Creative Practice and the Meaning of Making in Contemporary Australia
2005 1st class Honours degree (US Masters) Anthropology, The University of Western Australia.
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
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024 BLEND :: Material & Metaphor, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator), as part of IOTA24.
2024 stitched and bound quilt art exhibition, Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midlands, WA (touring until November 2025)
2024 Gathering(s), The Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA (solo exhibition as part of 2-month arts residency)
2023 Promise :: Material & Matter, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2023 Cultivating Slow-Making, Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring WA
2023 Fibre of my Being, The Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA (solo exhibition as part of 6-week Time + Place arts residency)
2022 Wild Wool - Australian Felt Art, Gallery76, Concord West (Sydney) NSW
2022 twentyFIVE+, Holmes à Court Gallery, West Perth. A celebration of 25+ years as an Association. Juried
2022 Melville Art Awards, Melville, WA. Juried exhibition
2021 Holding, The Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA (solo exhibition as part of 3-month arts residency)
2021 HOLD, Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA
2020 Hanging by a Thread, WAFTA, Holmes a Court @ 10, West Perth
2020 Felt: Fiber Transformed, Fiber Art Now International Exhibition (juried), USA
2018 Family Matters, Surface Design Association International Exhibition in Print (juried), USA
2018 Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah, Mandurah WA
2017 Altered States, WAFTA, Perth Town Hall, Perth WA (also curator of the exhibition)
2015-6 Memory & Commemoration (Touring), Perth Convention Centre, Lake Grace Regional Arts Space, Lake Grace and GeoArts Busselton, WA
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 and Mandurah WA
1988-98 Work in numerous national and international group shows, including St Petersburg Russia and Oregon USA
RECENT COMMUNITY & ADVISORY WORK (including Artist-In-Residencies)
2024 Curator and Exhibition Coordinator, ReGEN, Members Exhibition, Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association (WAFTA), Moores
Building Art Space, Fremantle Western Australia
2024 Curator, BLEND :: Material & Metaphor, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup as part of IOTA 24. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2024 Curator, Sew + So :: the in-between space, CASM, Mandurah WA. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2023 Presentation, Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Gallery Guides
2023 Curator, PROMISE :: Material & Matter, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2023 Here + Now, Artist in Residence, North Midlands Project, North Midlands, Western Australia
2022 Time + Place, Artist in Residence, North Midlands Project, North Midlands, Western Australia
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Activating Collections, North Midlands Project/Carnamah Historical Society & Museum
2018 Curator, Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, CASM, Mandurah WA
2017 Curator, Altered States exhibition, WAFTA, Perth Town Hall, Perth WA
2016-2023 Editor, Felt, national felt art magazine www.artwearpublications.com.au
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria
2013- present Convenor, Fibres West Inc. www.fibreswest.com.au, including convening biennial fibre arts conference
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, Artist-in Residence and staff member international Fibre Forum conferences
1997-2016 The Australian National Yurt Project - founder and coordinator
TEACHING/LECTURING/COMMUNITY ARTS
1989 – current Teaching of workshops in felt art throughout Australia, in Russia, UK, The Netherlands and throughout the USA, including at national and international residential art & craft conferences, art schools, guild events, conventions, and private groups. See below for further details
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (that include my work or were authored by me)
2020 Felt Forward: New Technologies in Feltmaking, Catherine O’Leary, Victoria
FeltScapes - Cora Jongsma - Making Landscape with Felt, FELT, issue 23
2019 The Women’s Gallery 1988-1995 (book), Judith Brooks (ed), Mouse in House Publishing, Vic
Standing Tall, Felt Matters (journal of the International Feltmakers Association, issue 134, UK
2018 Family Matters, Surface Design Association International Exhibition in Print (juried), Surface Design Journal, (winter issue), USA
Beyond the Seam, catalogue/curator essay, Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah, Mandurah WA
Fiber Art Now Felts exhibition in print, Fiber Art Now (summer issue), USA
Corded & Coiled Vessels (Felt issue 19), Wired Earrings (Felt issue 20)
2017 Retrospective of Felt in Australia: Polly Stirling, and Mosaic Nuno Hat, FELT, issue 17
2016 Worldwide Colours of Felt, Ellen Bakker (Textile Link Publishing, The Netherlands)
Treasure(d) Nests and the Essence of Time , Felt Matters (UK), December issue
Flourishing Felt, FELT, issue 15, and Carding the (un)usual, naturally and Fault Lines Vessel, FELT, issue 16
2015 Enchantment in Felting: Reflections on a Process that Rewards Spontaneity, FELT, issue 14
10 QUESTIONS to Martien van Zuilen (Australia, via Holland), VILTKONTAKT (The Netherlands), June issue
Fragments and Slivers - Colourful Jewellery in Hand-made Felt, threads.in-fusion, issue 9, June.
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; Germany), 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)
1990-present Profiles, book chapters, commentary and projects in major fibre art magazines and publications.
PRESENTATIONS/ARTIST TALKS
2021 Fibre Art in Western Australia, panel (facilitator) Midland Junction Arts Centre
2020 Hanging by a Thread, WAFTA, Holmes a Court @ 10, West Perth
2019 Albany Summer School, Albany WA (also 2018)
2017 Primary Production, opening address exhibition WA Inspired Art Quilts, Mundaring Arts Centre, WA
2016 Artist Talk - Then, Now, and What Next, Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Perth WA
Memory & Commemoration, opening address WAFTA exhibition, Geospace, Busselton
Artist Talk Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria (also 2014)
Artist Talk; a heart-FELT journey, Wrapt in Rocky, Rockhampton Qld
2014 Rochester Fibre Arts, New York, USA
2013 12th Southern Hemisphere Felt Convergence, NSW
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 and 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
Opening Address, National Birthright Quilt Project, Murdoch University, Perth
2007 International Textile Fibre Forum Conference, Orange, Australia
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
ACADEMIC PAPERS/THESES (authored and presented)
2013 Through the Eye of a Needle: Ethnographic Engagements with Textile Creative Practice and the Meaning of Making in Contemporary Australia, PhD Thesis, Anthropology, University of Western Australia
2009 A Matter of Cloth, Yarns and Words; materializing time and engagement through the eye of a needle, Australian Anthropological Society Annual 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, University of Western Australia, Perth, Aus.
2005 Fabric-ation of the Steppes; material culture and gendered representations of Mongolian culture and society; Honours 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)
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WORKSHOPS and TEACHING
2023 Albany Summer School, (4 workshops), Albany WA, and Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA
2022 Albany Summer School, (4 workshops), Albany WA
Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA
2021 FeltWest, Perth WA
Alexander Park Craft House, Menora WA
2019 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA
Bunbury Felting Group, Bunbury WA
Spool & Spindle, Margaret River WA
TAFTA Inc. Geelong Fibre Forum, Geelong Victoria
Blue Mountain Felters, Blue Mountains Region NSW
Feltwest, Perth WA
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)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2013 PhD Anthropology, The University of Western Australia; Thesis: Through the Eye of a Needle: Ethnographic Engagements with Textile Creative Practice and the Meaning of Making in Contemporary Australia
2005 1st class Honours degree (US Masters) Anthropology, The University of Western Australia.
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
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024 BLEND :: Material & Metaphor, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator), as part of IOTA24.
2024 stitched and bound quilt art exhibition, Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midlands, WA (touring until November 2025)
2024 Gathering(s), The Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA (solo exhibition as part of 2-month arts residency)
2023 Promise :: Material & Matter, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2023 Cultivating Slow-Making, Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring WA
2023 Fibre of my Being, The Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA (solo exhibition as part of 6-week Time + Place arts residency)
2022 Wild Wool - Australian Felt Art, Gallery76, Concord West (Sydney) NSW
2022 twentyFIVE+, Holmes à Court Gallery, West Perth. A celebration of 25+ years as an Association. Juried
2022 Melville Art Awards, Melville, WA. Juried exhibition
2021 Holding, The Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA (solo exhibition as part of 3-month arts residency)
2021 HOLD, Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA
2020 Hanging by a Thread, WAFTA, Holmes a Court @ 10, West Perth
2020 Felt: Fiber Transformed, Fiber Art Now International Exhibition (juried), USA
2018 Family Matters, Surface Design Association International Exhibition in Print (juried), USA
2018 Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah, Mandurah WA
2017 Altered States, WAFTA, Perth Town Hall, Perth WA (also curator of the exhibition)
2015-6 Memory & Commemoration (Touring), Perth Convention Centre, Lake Grace Regional Arts Space, Lake Grace and GeoArts Busselton, WA
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 and Mandurah WA
1988-98 Work in numerous national and international group shows, including St Petersburg Russia and Oregon USA
RECENT COMMUNITY & ADVISORY WORK (including Artist-In-Residencies)
2024 Curator and Exhibition Coordinator, ReGEN, Members Exhibition, Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association (WAFTA), Moores
Building Art Space, Fremantle Western Australia
2024 Curator, BLEND :: Material & Metaphor, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup as part of IOTA 24. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2024 Curator, Sew + So :: the in-between space, CASM, Mandurah WA. (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2023 Presentation, Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Gallery Guides
2023 Curator, PROMISE :: Material & Matter, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup (Exhibiting Artist & Curator)
2023 Here + Now, Artist in Residence, North Midlands Project, North Midlands, Western Australia
2022 Time + Place, Artist in Residence, North Midlands Project, North Midlands, Western Australia
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Activating Collections, North Midlands Project/Carnamah Historical Society & Museum
2018 Curator, Beyond the Seam: Conceptual Works in Fibre Art, CASM, Mandurah WA
2017 Curator, Altered States exhibition, WAFTA, Perth Town Hall, Perth WA
2016-2023 Editor, Felt, national felt art magazine www.artwearpublications.com.au
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria
2013- present Convenor, Fibres West Inc. www.fibreswest.com.au, including convening biennial fibre arts conference
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, Artist-in Residence and staff member international Fibre Forum conferences
1997-2016 The Australian National Yurt Project - founder and coordinator
TEACHING/LECTURING/COMMUNITY ARTS
1989 – current Teaching of workshops in felt art throughout Australia, in Russia, UK, The Netherlands and throughout the USA, including at national and international residential art & craft conferences, art schools, guild events, conventions, and private groups. See below for further details
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (that include my work or were authored by me)
2020 Felt Forward: New Technologies in Feltmaking, Catherine O’Leary, Victoria
FeltScapes - Cora Jongsma - Making Landscape with Felt, FELT, issue 23
2019 The Women’s Gallery 1988-1995 (book), Judith Brooks (ed), Mouse in House Publishing, Vic
Standing Tall, Felt Matters (journal of the International Feltmakers Association, issue 134, UK
2018 Family Matters, Surface Design Association International Exhibition in Print (juried), Surface Design Journal, (winter issue), USA
Beyond the Seam, catalogue/curator essay, Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah, Mandurah WA
Fiber Art Now Felts exhibition in print, Fiber Art Now (summer issue), USA
Corded & Coiled Vessels (Felt issue 19), Wired Earrings (Felt issue 20)
2017 Retrospective of Felt in Australia: Polly Stirling, and Mosaic Nuno Hat, FELT, issue 17
2016 Worldwide Colours of Felt, Ellen Bakker (Textile Link Publishing, The Netherlands)
Treasure(d) Nests and the Essence of Time , Felt Matters (UK), December issue
Flourishing Felt, FELT, issue 15, and Carding the (un)usual, naturally and Fault Lines Vessel, FELT, issue 16
2015 Enchantment in Felting: Reflections on a Process that Rewards Spontaneity, FELT, issue 14
10 QUESTIONS to Martien van Zuilen (Australia, via Holland), VILTKONTAKT (The Netherlands), June issue
Fragments and Slivers - Colourful Jewellery in Hand-made Felt, threads.in-fusion, issue 9, June.
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; Germany), 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)
1990-present Profiles, book chapters, commentary and projects in major fibre art magazines and publications.
PRESENTATIONS/ARTIST TALKS
2021 Fibre Art in Western Australia, panel (facilitator) Midland Junction Arts Centre
2020 Hanging by a Thread, WAFTA, Holmes a Court @ 10, West Perth
2019 Albany Summer School, Albany WA (also 2018)
2017 Primary Production, opening address exhibition WA Inspired Art Quilts, Mundaring Arts Centre, WA
2016 Artist Talk - Then, Now, and What Next, Western Australian Fibre & Textile Association, Perth WA
Memory & Commemoration, opening address WAFTA exhibition, Geospace, Busselton
Artist Talk Grampians Texture, Halls Gap Victoria (also 2014)
Artist Talk; a heart-FELT journey, Wrapt in Rocky, Rockhampton Qld
2014 Rochester Fibre Arts, New York, USA
2013 12th Southern Hemisphere Felt Convergence, NSW
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 and 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
Opening Address, National Birthright Quilt Project, Murdoch University, Perth
2007 International Textile Fibre Forum Conference, Orange, Australia
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
ACADEMIC PAPERS/THESES (authored and presented)
2013 Through the Eye of a Needle: Ethnographic Engagements with Textile Creative Practice and the Meaning of Making in Contemporary Australia, PhD Thesis, Anthropology, University of Western Australia
2009 A Matter of Cloth, Yarns and Words; materializing time and engagement through the eye of a needle, Australian Anthropological Society Annual 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, University of Western Australia, Perth, Aus.
2005 Fabric-ation of the Steppes; material culture and gendered representations of Mongolian culture and society; Honours 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)
~~~~~
WORKSHOPS and TEACHING
2023 Albany Summer School, (4 workshops), Albany WA, and Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA
2022 Albany Summer School, (4 workshops), Albany WA
Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA
2021 FeltWest, Perth WA
Alexander Park Craft House, Menora WA
2019 Albany Summer School (4 workshops), Albany WA
Bunbury Felting Group, Bunbury WA
Spool & Spindle, Margaret River WA
TAFTA Inc. Geelong Fibre Forum, Geelong Victoria
Blue Mountain Felters, Blue Mountains Region NSW
Feltwest, Perth WA
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)
Contemporary Felt Work and Hand-dyed Fibres
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