Genevieve Packer is a Wellington-based textile designer and maker, craft enthusiast, and educator. Since completing her Master of Design, her practice continues to explore New Zealand's national identity, material culture, and overlooked things in the everyday – while indulging an obsession with repeating pattern. She has a multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary craft-based design, which covers a range of materials, hands-on and digital processes, and techniques. After eight years teaching textile design, she is currently working full time designing and making textiles for costumes for the film industry while making her own range of textile-based products and jewellery, and one-off gallery works, commissions and collaborations.