People I know, things they make, stories they tell, and places inform my work. I, in return, weave cloth that can bring back those memories.
I grew up watching my mother knit, sew and embroider lovely things for me, all the while listening to her tell the one thing she longed to do was to weave. So I came to think of weaving as the ultimate craft. She started weaving when she was 60. I had a few false starts, but hunkered down and got serious in 2004, when I left my last job and realized nobody was expecting me to turn up at the office the next morning.
I was born in Yokohama, Japan, raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Tucson, Arizona, USA, and educated in Tokyo, Minneapolis and St. Paul. I read Linguistics, Shakespeare and James Joyce for my BA and have lived in New Zealand since 1994 and in Nelson since 1996.
Selected Exhibitions
”Bye Bye, Blue Eyes", Nelson, New Zealand, 2008, My second tiny local exhibition at the local textile cooperative, remembering actor Paul Newman
"Craft 08", Nelson, New Zealand, 2008
"Culturally Routed", Nelson, New Zealand, 2007
"Re:Fine", Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand, 2007/2008
"Sea, Sand and Sky", Nelson, New Zealand, 2007, My very first (and tiny) solo exhibition in the lovely then-Gallery 203
Selected Workshops Attended
Maryanne Stamford, (Australia) Block Weave workshop, 2011
Randall Darwall (USA) "How to Make a Good Scarf Better", 2006
Bonnie Inouye (USA) Complex Weave workshop, 2002
Kay Faulkner (Australia) Double Weave workshop, 2001
If you found me while looking for Randall Darwall's workshop experience, please click here.
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