Net-work; lace and the (con) figuring of space
Lesley Millar
2009
Lesley Millar has been a practising weaver with her own studio since 1975, has work in the permanent collections of both The Crafts Council and Arts Council England and is listed on the Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers. She has exhibited throughout the UK, in Europe, the USA and Japan.
She has worked as an exhibition organiser and curator specialising in contemporary textiles since 1987 and has been project director for major international touring exhibitions featuring textile artists from the UK and Japan.
She writes regularly about textile practice in Britain and Japan, is co-editor of the forthcoming on-line textile journal DUCK and advisor for the Journal of Craft Research. In 2006-07 she undertook an AHRC funded project investigating approaches to contemporary textiles through collaborative research between Museums, HEI’s and Practitioners.
In 2007 she was appointed Professor of Textile Culture at the University for the Creative Arts and in 2008 received the Japan Society Award for significant contribution to Anglo-Japanese relationships.
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