Rose Sinclair MBE

Rose Sinclair MBE is a Reader Design Education, Goldsmiths, University of London

Her ongoing PhD doctoral research is distinctive with its focus on Black British women their crafting practices, as demonstrated in textiles networks such as Dorcas Clubs.

Rose’s works utilise public engagement and participatory immersive workshops, in site specific-installation spaces such as the V&A London, House for an Art Lover, Timespan in Helmsdale, Scotland. Her work on Dorcas Clubs has featured on national TV in ‘Craftivism: Making a Difference’ BBC4 Feb 2021.

She co-curated the first retrospective of Caribbean textile designer Althea McNish, in 2022 at the William Morris Gallery 'Althea McNish: Colour is Mine' and The Whitworth in Manchester. Rose ‘s latest research, is the first monograph about Althea McNish, and co-curated installation with Craftspace, ‘Dorcas Stories from the Front Room, Textiles Narratives, Now and Then’ (23rd Sept – 29th Oct 2024)

Rose has authored several textile books, and co-edited chapters her most recent works being ‘Tracing back to trace forwards, What it means/takes to be a Black Designer' in (2021), Igoe (Ed) Textile Design Theory in the Making; Does Design do Race (Dec 2022) in Hardy (Ed) Debates in Design & Technology Education'. She Co-Editor-in Chief of The Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture and is Co-Editor of the Journal of Textile Research and Practice. Previously Chair of the Equity Advisory Council at the Crafts Council, Rose is now a Trustee at the Crafts Council, a Trustee of the Textile Society UK and a Heritage Crafts Ambassador Heritage Crafts UK, and an Associate member of the APPG Group for Craft, and a founding member of the UBAE (United Black Art Educators) which is part of the NSEAD. Rose was awarded an MBE in 2024 for Services to the Arts.