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LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

Run in Sydney and internationally

Lectures & Workshops

27 September 2026

Art Department Studio Workshop >> Get your ticket here

10 October 2026

Sydney Craft Week UNSW Makers Market >> more info

20 October 2026

Sydney Opera House Launch >> Sign up for my Newsletter

Past Lectures & Workshops

2026

Sydney Craft Week, Embroidery, UNSW, Sydney

2026

Textile Summer Intensive, Rede Portuguesa De Arte Contemporânea, Portugal

2026

REST.HEARTS.HANDS, Manumission,  Sydney

2025

REST.HEARTS.HANDS, Temple Yoga, Sydney

2022

‘Meet the Designers’, Elliott Clarke, Sydney 

2018

Summer Series “Stories”, 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.

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Book me for a lecture or workshop!

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