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Heather was appointed as Museum Curator for the new Quilt Museum and Gallery in May, and is very enthusiastic about working with such an exciting and nationally important collection of textile crafts.
Prior to working for The Quilters’ Guild, Heather has worked for Hull Museums Service as a Documentation Assistant, cataloguing, researching and repacking the collections. Her subject specialism is costume and textiles, and she has worked with a wide range of costume items from 18th century whalebone corsets to 1970s platform boots! Working across the nine museum sites at Hull, she has documented all sorts of weird and wonderful objects: Wilberforce’s frock coat, early Singer sewing machines, and a life-size woolly mammoth named Mortimer, to name a few!
Heather graduated from her Museum Studies MA at Leicester University in 2005, after completing a work placement at Wilberforce House Museum, Hull, where she assisted with documentation, research and exhibition work. Prior to this she worked in Hull University Archives for a year cataloguing landed family estate correspondence, and also worked as an audience development volunteer at Hull museums whilst studying for her history degree.
In her spare time Heather loves sewing and dressmaking, especially recreating historic costume, and she also enjoys dancing and reading books on history. She currently lives in Hull with her partner and they enjoy walking, gardening and days out.
Heather is looking forward to the opening of the museum and learning more about the collections. It has always been her dream to curate a textiles collection, and she feels very lucky to be involved with such an exciting venture as the opening of the Quilt Museum. |
