I am an interdisciplinary artist who uses collaboration with materials, machines, and my body to explore glitches. My weaving practice along with my printmaking and alternative photography studies, give me a lot of time with mistakes, unravelling the idea of mastery and finding grace with where I am at. That said, I am currently working through the level one Master weaver testing projects, giving myself time to dig deep into each structure. I am curious about the process of learning weave structures I am not drawn to.

I teach rigid heddle weaving online at the School of Sweet Georgia and in person in Vancouver when I can. I love helping my students find ways to bring their interests into their weaving practices. I like to help them understand they why of what they are doing so that they can develop the skills to design their own pieces. I have written several weaving patterns for School of Sweet Georgia and for Gist yarn, with a new collection coming out this fall. I try to make them more like a recipe that can be amended to fit the weaver, providing opportunities to spice things up.

disrupted is an expression of glitches in handweaving. The weave structure is plain weave but I used random number generating software to create a random sett for the warp ends which opens and closes up the cloth in interesting ways. Despite this method, a pattern emerged. Incorporating long floats between woven and hemmed squares allowed me to draw with thread in space. I created the wooden structures as abstractions of the tools I use to weave. This piece was shown in a group exhibition at Elissa Cristall gallery in 2018 alongside the work of a printmaker, ceramicist and papercut artist all of whom shared my interest in materiality and process. This work was key to integrating my weaving practice into sculptural form.