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Abstract
In this Introduction I outline the background against which the conference The Matter of Material took place at Turner Contemporary Margate, which was an invitation to develop ideas understood to have emerged from the exhibition Entangled, curated by Karen Wright. I then describe the context in which the discussion took place: that of other exhibitions of a similar kind, the perceived lack of public awareness of textile art initiatives and the importance of following up on the exhibition.
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Lesley Millar
Lesley Millar is Professor of Textile Culture, Director of the International Textile Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, and an exhibition curator specializing in textiles. These have included 11 major international touring exhibitions. She writes regularly about textile practice in Britain and Japan, including co-editing, with Alice Kettle, the book Erotic Cloth for Bloomsbury Publishing (2018). In 2008 she received the Japan Society Award for significant contribution to Anglo-Japanese relationships, and in 2011 was appointed MBE for her contribution to higher education.