LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
Sydney and Internationally
Lectures & Workshops
Coming Soon
Embroidery Workshop at Muri Elle, Hurlstone Park, Sydney >> EXPLORE
10 October 2026
Meet the Maker Sydney Craft Week University of NSW Market >> EXPLORE
25 October 2026
SIGNÉ #2 Embroidery Workshop Art Department Studio, Sydney >> EXPLORE
25 October 2026
Epiphany Design Launch Sydney Opera House Birthday >> EXPLORE
Past Lectures & Workshops
2026
SIGNÉ Embroidery Workshop, Art Department Studio, Sydney
2026
Embroidery Masterclass Textile Summer Intensive, Rede Portuguesa De Arte Contemporânea, Portugal >> EXPLORE
2026
REST.HEARTS.HANDS, Embroidery Workshop Manumission, Sydney
2025
REST.HEARTS.HANDS, Embroidery Workshop Temple Yoga, Sydney
2022
Guest Lecture at ‘Meet the Designers’, Elliott Clarke, Sydney
2018
Summer Series “Stories” Lecture, Australian Design Center, Sydney
2008
Guest Lecturer, Surface Design & Professional Development - International School of Colour and Design, Sydney
Choose your format
I teach embroidery and textile design to people who have never held a needle, and to designers who have held one for twenty years.Workshops run in Sydney and internationally - at UNSW, at the Australian Design Centre, and each summer at Córtex Frontal in Portugal.
Groups stay small. Materials are provided. You leave with something you made with your own hands, and with the skills to make the next one on your own.
Workshops
Hands-on embroidery for beginners and for people who already stitch and want to go further. We start with thread, colour and the stitches that do the most work, then you build a piece of your own. No experience needed, and no one is behind.
Masterclasses
For textile and design students, working designers and studios: surface pattern, repeat, colourways, and how a drawing becomes a fabric that can actually be manufactured. This is the same process I use in commissioned work.
Lectures and Talks
For universities, galleries, festivals and design teams. On colour and pattern, on making a life as a textile designer, and on why hand-work still matters in an industry that could do without it. I've spoken for Sydney Craft Week, the Australian Design Centre, and the International School of Colour and Design.
Rest.Hearts.Hands.
A slower format, developed with Temple Yoga and Manumission in Sydney. Embroidery as a reason to sit down, put the phone somewhere else, and use your hands for two hours. It has turned out to be the workshop people bring their friends back to.
