FORTHCOMING
Warp & Weft: woven textiles in fashion, interiors & art (A&C Black: 2012)
Warp & Weft considers the woven structure and its use in recent experimental art and design. Thematic chapters include: threads, all kinds of light, dynamic responses, sound, emotion & community. Content covers discussion of work an international group of artists and designers, including Philip Beesley, Zane Berzina, Lia Cook, Dashing Tweeds, Gabriel Dawe, Petter Hellsing, Elana Herzog, Astrid Krogh, Sue Lawty, Susie MacMurray, Ptolemy Mann, Christy Matson, Norwegian Rain, Maggie Orth, Ismini Samanidou, Sonic Weave, Laura Thomas, Suzanne Tick, Wallace & Sewell, & Anne Wilson.
The Textile Reader, editor (Berg: 2012)
The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing field of scholarly research. Revealing the full diversity of approaches to the study of textiles, the Reader introduces students to the theoretical frameworks essential to the exploration of the textile from a critical and creative perspective. Content is drawn from a wide range of genres - blogs, artists' statements and fiction/short stories as well as critical writings - organised in themed sections covering touch, memory, structure, politics, production and use. Introductions to each contribution contextualise the varied content, which include extracts from both classic and contemporary writings. Each thematic section is separately introduced and concludes with a bibliography of further reading. Selected authors include Glenn Adamson, Anni Albers, Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari, Sarat Maharaj, Rozsika Parker, Sadie Plant, Peter Stallybrass, Catherine de Zegher and Alice Walker.
PUBLISHED
In the Loop: Knitting Now, editor (Black Dog: 2010)
In the Loop aims to challenge oversimplified associations of knitting as domestic craft and capture the diversity of contemporary textile culture related to knitting today. Contributors include Sandy Black, Mary Brooks, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Deirdre Nelson, Clio Padovani, Lacey Jane Roberts, Freddie Robins, Annie Shaw & Joanne Turney.
Yvonne Vera: The Voice of Cloth, author (kalliope paperbacks: 2008)
The Voice of Cloth explores the presence and purpose of cloth as metaphor, structure and object in the fiction of late Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera. Throughout this research, the production and consumption of cloth are understood to represent domestic graphologies, a term coined by Vera in her own Ph.D. which refers to communication that goes unnoticed by conventional discourse because of the domestic, and therefore seemingly inconsequential, materials appropriated to convey information. Here an inconsequential and often overlooked element of narrative and life – the textile – is shown to play a central role in the articulation of the often silenced experiences of incest, infanticide, abortion and rape that make up the narratives of Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998) and The Stone Virgins (2002).
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