Since 2015, I have devised and facilitated a wide range of socially engaged textile and embroidery workshops across community and educational settings. My teaching often centres on storytelling, memory, and collective experience through needlework, creating safe, inclusive spaces for participants to share, reflect, and connect.
Key projects include my role as Lead Textile Artist for Renfrewshire Council’s Women’s Unpaid Work Programme (2022–2025), where I designed and delivered embroidery projects with women in the criminal justice system. These initiatives focused on skill-building, confidence, and social impact, resulting in hand-stitched works such as sensory blankets and draught excluders.
In Inverkeithing (2021–22), I collaborated with school pupils and community members to co-create a large-scale textile artwork for Inverkeithing’s historic Townhouse.
As part of the Touching Stitches project (2017–22), I worked with visually impaired audiences and women in the Scottish Prison Service to reinterpret heritage textiles from the Needlework Development Scheme collection.
Internationally, I undertook a residency in Jerusalem and led a participatory project at Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, where women and children expressed personal experiences of occupation through stitch-based storytelling.
Co-creation is at the heart of my practice. From developing collective banners for Perth Museum to facilitating intergenerational workshops along the Fermanagh border, I ensure participant voices shape both process and outcomes.
My approach is supported by experience in project evaluation, accessible resource design, and trauma-informed facilitation, particularly when working with vulnerable adults and people living with mental health challenges.
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