Lesley Millar, Professor of Textile Culture, Director of the International Textile Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, ran her own weave studio for over 20 years before becoming an exhibition curator specialising in textiles. She has been responsible for many international textile exhibitions since 1996 including ‘Textural Space’ (2001), ‘21:21 – the textile vision of Reiko Sudo and NUNO’ (2005-7), ‘Cloth & Culture NOW’ (2008), ‘Lost in Lace’ (2011), 'Cloth & Memory {2}' (2013), 'Here & Now: contemporary tapestry' (2016-17), 'Weaving New Worlds' (2018) and most recently, with Alice Kettle, 'Fabric: touch and identity' (2020). She writes regularly about textile practice including co-editing, with Alice Kettle, the book 'Erotic Cloth' for Bloomsbury Academic (2018).