Born in Izmir Turkey; Education at Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, in 1972 a Master’s Degree in Decorate Arts and Textiles, PhD, Special Sciences Institute, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, 1996 on Turkish Traditional Arts. Current position: Lecturer and Head of the Textile Department and Fashion and Accessory Design Program at Dokuz Eylül Üniversity – Faculty of Fine Arts, Izmir, Turkey. Selected exhibitions: 17th International Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Fiber Art Pittsburg USA, 2001; 10th International Tapestry Triennial Łódź 2001,  16th and 20th International Symposium of Textile Art - Graz 2000 (Austria), 2nd Biennial for Textile  Art Kherson, Ukraine 2002. Involved in textile design, tapestry, embroidery an accessory design. Participated in numerous workshops, seminars and symposia in Turkey and abroad (San  Francisco, Santa-Fe, Graz, Copenhagen).


Motto: My fibre work is on concepts or images that are continuous experience enriching my art  work. Sometimes a from pulled out from the past, sometimes a colour or a design... By reorienting  fibre, „craft” and „concept” might end up in surprising result. Authentic forms and materials of the past have been mirrored in my design source.