Lesley Millar - Authored Papers
 

2021   

'Kawaii - the culture of cute' 'Aww Struck' Online Conference Royal Holloway and University of   Birmingham and publication ISBN 978-1-8383206-1-4

2020

'A Pause for Reflection'. Galway European City of Culture 2020 International Tapestry Conference.

2019

'A Sensuous Awakening'. European Textile Network Conference, Textile Museum, Haslach, Austria

'Framed by Textiles'. 'Space and Place' Conference, Burges, Belgium

'Contemporary Tapestry - Finding its Place'. Cordis International Tapestry Prize Conference
'The Thread Runs Both Ways' Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh

2018                                   

'The Erotic Cloth' (jointly with Prof Alice Kettle), 'The Joys of the Erotic' Conference Palermo, Italy 

'Transparent Boundaries', 'Making A Difference'  Conference, Solent University

'Textiles and Place', Invited Keynote 'Textiles & Place' Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University

2017                                   

'Transparent Boundaries', NSEAD ijade conference, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland

'Tapestry a narrative for our times?', International Conference, The Holburne Museum, Bath

'The Matter of Material', Turner Contemporary, Margate

2016                                   

' Cloth and Memory'. Keynote 'What Place Is This?' International Conference Guimaraes, Portugal

2015

'Framed By Textiles'. The 2015 Textile Society Conference 'Textiles and Architecture', Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

'Tapestry - What is the point?'. West Dean Tapestry International Symposium 2015. West Dean, Sussex. 

2014

'A Short Journey Through Craft and Design Teaching in the UK', International symposium: Education of Design and Arts, Tokyo Zokei University, Japan

'High Definition, Low Definition: lace as mise-en-scène'. Conference, Lace - the transgressive thread, University for the Creative Arts.

'Touching to Know, Knowing to Touch', MAKE Symposium, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland

'Cloth and Connections', University Adam Mickiewicz W Poznaniu, Kalisz, Poland

'Passion', All university conference, Westminster Hall, London

2013

'Cloth and Memory', Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

 'Transparent Boundaries', Teatro Pesani, Recanati, Italy

'Transparent Boundaries' International Centre for Culture, Athens, Greece.

2012                                   

'Borderlines and Boundaries: lace net-works and the configuring of space'. Conference, Nottingham Trent, University

 'Inside/Outside: textile art and art education in Europe', Contextile 2012:Têxtil Arte Contemporânea Biennale, Guimarães, Portugal

‘A working relationship – textiles in Japan and the UK’, Nagoya University of the Arts, Japan

‘What is cloth to me?’ Annual University Art Lecture, Manchester Metropolitan University

‘The Red/Read Thread’. Conference: University of Huddersfield

2011                 

‘Transition and Influence’, Crest, Woburn House, London

‘Collaboration in curatorial practice: a creative journey or a means to an end?’ Pairings Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University

‘Crossing Cultures: connections and difference’, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

2010                 

‘Textiles as a cross-cultural language’, Okayama Museum of Modern Art, Japan

'Witness: cloth as an archive of memory', Plymouth Art Gallery

‘Curating Practice’, Inaugural Ryanair/Crafts Council of Ireland Craft Lecture series, RDS Dublin

‘Boundaries’, Interiors Forum World 2010, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

‘Let your fingers do the reading: the vocabulary of touch’ Surface tensions Conference RCA/V&A, London

2009                 

‘Transition and Influence: a perspective for education’, NSEAD Annual Conference, London

2008                 

'Transition and Influence', Inaugural Professorial lecture, Design Council, London

2007                                   

‘Memory and Touch: textile and non-verbal communication’, Royal Society of Arts, London

2006                 

‘Precision and Ambiguity – textile as a trans-national, cross-cultural language’, keynote speaker, ‘Art Textiles’ conference, National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

‘Cultural Difference and Creative Process 2’, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan

2004                 

‘Cultural difference and creative process’, ‘Culture Futures: Cutting Edges’ Sainsbury Centre For Visual Art, University of East Anglia

2003                                   

‘Culture and Creativity’, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London

2001                                   

‘Texture & Space’, Sainsbury Centre For Visual Art, University of East Anglia

1998                                   

‘British Textiles Today’, The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Japan