Bio

I am a curator, lecturer, researcher and archivist exploring the relationship between garments, biography, and curatorial practice.

I use exhibition-making and material culture research to examine how lived experience permeates worn clothing, and how the researcher acts as a potential interrupter of this biography.

Originally from the west coast of Canada, I received my BA in 2006 from Toronto Metropolitan University (then Ryerson) undertaking a career in broadcasting as an archivist and production manager, prior to transitioning to commercial styling and costuming for film and television. After relocating to the UK, I spent two years as a volunteer in the Fashion and Decorative Arts Collection at the Museum of London. Attending London College of Fashion’s MA Fashion Curation degree program, I graduated with a Distinction in 2019.

In 2023, I received a doctorate for my AHRC techne-funded research (in collaboration with University of the Arts London and the Museum of London) titled Curatorial Interruption: Critical analysis of sources of decision-making bias in dress/fashion curators and examination of the impact of curatorial bias on wearer/object biography in worn clothing acquired by institutional collections in the United Kingdom.

I lecture internationally (London College of Fashion, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Art, The Courtauld, Royal College of Arts, MUDE Design Museum, Lisbon) on the history and future of fashion curation and cultural programming; innovative, speculative, and extrasensory methods of exhibiting clothing and the experience of being dressed; and critical curatorial practice. I am the Course Leader for MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming at London College of Fashion, and have developed original units for undergraduates in multisensory methods of curating fashio, and for postgraduate students on fashion cultural programming.

I have worked with clothing collections and archives at The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection, Fashion and Textile Museum, London College of Fashion, the Museum of London, and Savile Row tailoring house Huntsman. Freelance clients include Artquest, curator Charlotte Cotton, editor Penny Martin, SHOWstudio and artist Dr Jane Wildgoose. I have contributed to projects for brands including Miu Miu, Chanel Beauty, Chanel Culture Fund, Nike, and FARFETCH. My work has been exhibited at the Museum of London, London College of Fashion, OXO Bargehouse, The Horse Hospital and MoMA.

My current research focuses on wearer and object biography, the authorship of history through worn clothing, extra-sensory exhibition strategies, ethical material and immaterial (including the use of AI) practice, curatorial bias, and what I have termed “curatorial interruption”.