27–30 June

June was an exciting period for my emerging textile practice, bringing together exhibition opportunities, professional recognition, and new commissions.

While exhibiting as part of One Year In at New Designers, my work was featured in the Textile Curator Graduate Showcase. The collection, Not From the Stork, explored themes of adoption, identity, and belonging, drawing on my personal journey to locate my birth mother. Through textile processes and material narratives, the work examined ideas of family history, loss, and connection.

During the same week, I was selected by the Crafts Council as Maker of the Week, with a feature on the Crafts Council Directory website and across its social media platforms. The recognition introduced my work to a wider audience and marked an important milestone in the development of my practice.

I was also delighted to be selected to create an installation for For Futures Sake, an exhibition and touring programme centred on sustainability, reuse, and responsible material sourcing. Bringing together artists working with reclaimed materials, found objects, and environmentally conscious processes, the project encouraged audiences to consider the impact of consumption and our relationship with the materials we use every day.

Questions around repair, reuse, and value continue to inform my practice. In a culture often driven by disposability, I am interested in how textile processes can encourage a slower way of seeing and a greater appreciation for the materials that surround us.

The exhibition was presented in a temporary gallery space in Horsforth, Leeds, within a former office building repurposed for artists and community groups. Supported by East Street Arts and Skipko, the project embodied the principles of creative reuse, both in the artwork on display and in the transformation of the exhibition space itself.