About

I am a Research Council-funded PhD researcher in the University of Manchester's Department of Social Anthropology and the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, with an academic interest in the hidden histories preserved in textiles. In 2023, I received the Brenda M King Award for critical writing in textiles for my essay 'The Sewing Box: a portrait chronicle' from The Textile Society.

As a researcher, I am drawn to everyday practices, anthropological discourses around the domestic, ‘homemaking’ and the hidden histories of ‘mundane’ objects. Woven throughout these themes is my interest in creative methodologies that examine dynamic ways of presenting ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological knowledge. Drawing on personal experience and experimentation with craft-making, I work from the tactile, haptic side of visual anthropology, exploring textiles as both the object of research and a means of enquiry.

Quilts wallpaper the domestic space of the home. The material is made visible in its tessellation of bright patchwork; its design tries to catch the eye yet is simultaneously overlooked as a fabric that composes everyday life. My work centres around the idea that stitching communities are creative spaces that foster friendships, well-being and carve a group in which to gossip, laugh, cry, and dream.

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