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Cecilia Heffer
Cecilia Heffer is a senior lecturer in textiles at the University of Technology, Sydney. Here she combines her teaching with research, art practice and curation. Her focus is on innovative textile concepts that explore the integration of the handmade with emerging technologies. Her work is represented in various collections including Powerhouse Museum Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Central Museum Lódź, Poland, Art Bank, Tamworth and Wangaratta Regional Galleries, William Dobell Foundation. Commissions include designing the lace curtains for the State Rooms of Government House Sydney and exhibition work in The Museum of Democracy, Old Parliament House Canberra. Currently she is a Ph.D. candidate at RMIT, exploring ephemeral material processes in a contemporary lace practice.
Cecilia has been invited to present her contemporary lace practice as part of the Lace Unravelled Symposium, 15–16 March 2018 at Wollaton hall and Newstead Abbey, Nottingham.