The following information provides a brief overview of 30 years experience working in traceability, circularity implementation and advisory support, teaching, lecturing and development:
 

Clients and work experience

• Australia - Shoe Manufactuer - Apprenticeship 1990

• Scotland - Herriot-Watt

• Universities of Limmerick, Cork, Belfast 

• US - University of New York Design

• UK - London College of Fashion

• EU, Japan, India - Fashion brands startups, individual designers, larger multinational and high end brands​​​

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Areas of Practice & Teaching

• Experimental textiles

• Biomaterials and biofabrication

• Regenerative material systems

• Circularity: waste reuse, next life, textile practices

• Traceability and material storytelling

• Local fibre ecosystems - Fibershed

• Material futures

• Waste-to-material experimentation

• Ecological material literacy

• Hands-on workshop facilitation

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Materials & Processes worked with

• Wool

• Linen

• Hemp

• Coffee waste materials

• Japanese knotweed fibres

• Natural binders and composites

• Plant-based materials

• Textile waste streams

• Biomaterial prototyping

• Circular material systems

 

Teaching & Workshop Experience

Created and facilitated workshops, lectures and training programs:

• biomaterial making

• experimental textile development

• circular design methodologies

• fibre traceability

• alternative and honest material systems

• collaborative hands-on learning
   

My teaching approach encourages students to engage directly with material processes, ecological thinking, and local resource systems through tactile experimentation and interdisciplinary practice.
 

Workshop formats include:

• guest lectures

• 1–3 day intensive workshops

• semester collaborations

• interdisciplinary studio projects

    • Future materials programs

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Available for more information by email or through contact form.​​​​​​​​​