Sunny Bank Mills

• 2024: Tangled Up - Featured Artworks: 

• Anatomy of a Quilt

• Coded Stitch

• Silence

• Tell Me of a Complicated Animal

WOVEN in Kirklees, Huddersfield Art Gallery

• 2023: Quilted

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

• 2023: Stitched Stories

Array Store, London

• 2021: Going Round in Circles

AIR Gallery, Greater Manchester

• 2020: Queer Contemporaries – Featured artwork:  

• Slate Stitched Circles 

Royal College of Art

• 2013: Show RCA 2013 - Served as Project Manager for the Textiles Installation 

• 2012: RCA Interim Show - Managed the project for the School of Materials 

• 2012: RCA Show 2012 - Project Manager for the Textiles Installation 

• 2012: Inspiring Matter - Curated and managed the project 

• 2011: Show RCA 2011 - Project Manager for the Textiles Installation 

• 2010: Curated Gender and Performance

Hockney Gallery, London

• 2010: Performed work in Hellfire

Fashion & Textiles Museum, London

• 2010: Sue Timney and the Design of Timney-Fowler - Exhibition Project Manager 

The Cob Gallery, Camden, London

• 2010: Royal We Guts for Garters Collective

Flowergate Hall Community Arts Centre

• 2024: Artist in Residence at Living on The Edge of the World, a festival of arts and culture based in Whitby 

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

• 2022: Artist in Residence within On Queer Ground 'Stitched Stories'

Thackray Medical Museum

• 2021: Project Manager for the community project "HIV 40-Year Celebration Quilt" exhibition 

Coventry Cathedral

• 2022-23: Artist in Residence, re-imagining the Pride Flag SPECTRUM community project 

TALKS

WOVEN in Kirklees

• 2023: Sew Inclusive: Male & Non-Binary Artists in Conversation

Connected Sounds Podcast

• 2023: Now\Then - How queer nightlife has evolved in the North from the 80's until today

Leeds Year of Culture 2023, Leeds Central Library

• 2023:From Crisis to Conquest: HIV & AIDS in the North - panel event where activists and support workers reflected on the last 40 years, asking what lessons can be learned from our local history 

SUPPORT WORK

BHA-Skyline, HIV Support services 

2018-2024 - Mental Health Support Worker providing 1:1 support, delivering HIV training, and facilitating groups for MSM and asylum seekers 

COLLABORATIONS & WORK WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF DANCE & PERFORMANCE:

Gary Clarke Company

• 2024: Detention

Extended Play

• 2023: How to Build a Universe and How to End It - Jamaal Burkmar 

Nicky Murman

• 2023: Tell Me of a Complicated Animal 

 Leeds Year of Culture 2023

• 2023: Gran Bolero - Watson Dance Project, Jesus Gambo 

• 2023: Seeds, Dreams and Constellations - Sharon Watson MBE and Corrine Bailey Rae 

Northern School of Contemporary Dance: MA Contemporary Dance Performance (Verve)

• 2024: When People Used to Die - (LA) HORDE 

• 2023: An Evening With - Jamaal Burkmar 

• 2021: The Unbearable - Sita Ostheimer 

• 2020: White Lies - Botis Seva 

• 2019: 4:18 - Maxine Doyle 

• 2018: NOBODY 'CEPT YOU - Sita Ostheimer 

• 2018: Riders - Lenka Vagnerová 

Northern School of Contemporary Dance: MA Interdisciplinary Dance Performance (IDP)

• 2024: The Rescue- Gecko 

• 2023: TESSELL8 at Leeds Art Gallery- Sonia Boyce 

We Are Ramped CIC

• 2022: Off-Centre - Phil Sanger 

Sardoville Dance Company

• 2021: Restoration - Phil Sanger, Michael Marquez. 

• 2017-2019: Just For An Hour

• 2014-2016: A Matter of Impression - artistic consultancy and costume direction 

DESIGN EXPERIENCE

Urban Pirate

• 2004 – 2008: Operated an independent men's wear design studio, specialising in one-off garment design and construction. 

Embryo, Menswear, Leeds

• 2003: Design Assistant 

Nico Di Donna, Soho, Menswear, London

• Aug 2001-Jan 2002: Design Assistant 

Tortoise Clothing, Menswear, Leeds

• Oct 1996-Jul 2001: Design Assistant 

Madame Jo-Jo's, Soho, London

• Mar 1994 - Jun 1996: Cabaret Performer/Costume Designer 

Broadcasting Modelling Agency, London

• Mar 1994-Jun 1996: Contributed to Photographic and Video Work 

OTHER COLLABORATIONS & COMMISSIONS

2018: Illustrations for the book - Stories from the Chicken Foot House by Tina Jackson

British Council 

• 2013: Curated an International Fashion Showcase at the Bolivian Embassy 

• 2010: Zagreb Inclusive Design 

2009: Franko B, storytelling and stitch.

2007: Cut - clothing & photography project exploring representations of masculinity, with Jac Callaghan. 

Arts Council England 

• 2024: Developing Your Creative Practice 

University of Leeds 

• 2024: Leeds Creative Labs | Smeaton300 edition 

2010 Royal College of Art

• MA CONSTRUCTED TEXTILES Dissertation: Travels in Gender Couture

2001 Leeds College of Art and Design, now Leeds Arts University

• BA HONS CLOTHING & FASHION (First Class) Final Year Dissertation: A Comparative Analysis of Richard Dyers classification of ‘Gayness’ with ‘Queer as Folk’.

• 1998 Foundation Studies in Art and Design

Northern School of Contemporary Dance

• 2024: BA (HONS) Dance (Contemporary), Storytelling and Costume 

East Street Arts

• 2023: Experimental Still and Life Drawing in collaboration with Tessa Houghton 

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2016 - 2019)

• 2016 - 2019: Artist Educator, developing learning specific to current exhibitions and history of the park. 

Haute Ecole D'Art Et De Design Geneva (2013 & 2012)

• 2013: Drawing Workshop on Object & Body Relationship 

• 2012: Drawing and Movement Workshop. 

Kensington and Chelsea College (2008-2013)

• 2012 - 2013: BTEC Foundation, Fashion & Textiles Pathway Course Leader 

• 2009 - 2012: BTEC Fashion and Clothing Lecturer. 

• 2008 - 2012: Diploma in Creative Media Lecturer. 

Leeds Arts University formerly Leeds College of Art and Design

• 2003 - 2008: Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Lecturer 

• 2004: Diploma in Visual Studies, Lecturer 

• 2003: BA Fashion and Clothing, Design Development Module, Visiting Lecturer 

• 2003 - 2008: Mentored students in various fashion-related projects, including: 

• BA Fashion and Clothing (2003) 

• Diploma in Visual Studies (2004) 

• BA Fashion projects such as Technical Shirt (2006), Tailoring (2007), and Experimental Drawing Workshop (2008).