I am a practicing artist, researcher and lecturer. My research is concerned with bringing together the materiality, imagery and language of cloth as a way for thinking, making and writing about materiality and making. My practice incorporates stitch, photography, video installation and sculpture, always referencing cloth, its structures and behaviours. Theoretical perspectives are drawn from feminist art theory and philosophies, material culture and ideas surrounding the communication of tacit knowledge. My current publication project, under contract from Bloomsbury, is a book focusing upon ways and means of bringing practice-based and theoretical approaches to textile: A Philosophy of Textile: practice & theory. This will develop theories of The Seam, Fraying Edges, Folded Cloth, The Caress, The Shimmer and The Viscous. Personal website: www.catherinedormor.co.uk