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Social Media Manager and Project Administrator Jonnet Middleton is an artist-researcher with dual Cuban/UK residency. Her work focuses on the politics of matter, and specifically on mending as the transformative potential of material resources rather than the restoration of the existing order. Her experimental feminist methodology – ontowork – is the labour of forcing the limits of possibility in everyday fields of perception and material existence. Her publications include ‘Mending’ in the Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion. She is co-founder of the MENDRS research network. She holds a PhD in Digital Innovation from Lancaster University, an MA in Art Practice and Education from Birmingham City University and a BA in Ethnomusicology and Social Anthropology from Queen’s University Belfast. Her professional experience includes prison art education, television presenting and numerous socially-engaged art projects around collective making and mending. She has worked on the Newton-Colciencias funded project “Mending the New: A Framework for Reconciliation Through Testimonial Digital Textiles in the Transition to Post-Conflict Rural Colombia”. She is funded by SHED to share her research with (post)-pandemic lay audiences to help build infrastructures of resilience. |