Experience

The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
• United Kingdom
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Casual Front of House

  • Oct 2023 - Present
• Project Intern

  • Jul 2022 - Sep 2022

  I was awarded the Museum Work Experience Grant from The Costume Society to work with The Silk Museum’s menswear collection for two months over the summer of 2022. - Condition checking nearly 150 individual objects and uploading the information and photographs onto the Modes database. - I interpreted my research and discoveries into weekly social media posts for the museum’s Textiles Thursday posts. - I adapted existing mannequins to display a Pierrot outfit from the collection, which I chose and write the object label for. - To complete the project I worked on an online exhibition to interpret the menswear collection to the wider public. Show less



Macclesfield Museums

• Collections Intern

  • Mar 2022 - Apr 2022

  Internship supported by The Madeline Ginsburg Internship grant from The Association of Dress Historians. The project was to audit and condition check the womenswear collection. - Independently completed condition reports on the womenswear collection - Researched some of the garments using records in the archive, and online resources. - Contributed to social media, interpreting research for the public. - Identified storage issues and, with the collections staff, worked on ways to resolve them. Show less



Kerry Taylor Auctions Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Apr 2021 - Jun 2021

  - Assisted the photographer in dressing the mannequins for the June 2021 auction - Correct handling of antique and vintage clothes and textiles. - Unboxed lots in preparation for sale. - Assisted the photographer in dressing the mannequins for the June 2021 auction - Correct handling of antique and vintage clothes and textiles. - Unboxed lots in preparation for sale.



Royal Opera House

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 700 & Above Employee

• Archives Assistant

  • Nov 2019 - Nov 2019

  - Shadowed various members of the team in the daily workings of the archive. - Catalogued a series of programmes as part of a wider project. - Shadowed the textiles conservation team in mounting costume and completing a condition report. - Shadowed various members of the team in the daily workings of the archive. - Catalogued a series of programmes as part of a wider project. - Shadowed the textiles conservation team in mounting costume and completing a condition report.