All About Me

Listed below are details from my CV. Please contact me for further information.

Mixed Exhibitions     Alive and Stitching Group Shows     Book Exhibitions     Awards     Recent Commissions     Public Collection     Profession     Privately led Workshops and talks to Art and Textile Groups     Group Work     Articles     Qualifications

Mixed Exhibitions include:

2007 Linda Blackstone Gallery, Middlesex (annually since 1986)

2007 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea (with Linda Blackstone Gallery)

2007 Connect 07, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

2007 Derbyshire Open Arts: Eyam Hall Craft Centre

2007 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield (and previous years)

2007 The Art House, Emsworth, Hants.

2007 Millyard Gallery, Uppermill

2006 Galleri Excentrisk, Aarhus , Denmark .

2006 The Great Sheffield Art Show (and previous years).

2006 Derbyshire Open Arts: Eyam Hall Craft Centre.

2005 Clocktower Gallery, Northern General Hospital , Sheffield .

2005  Platform Gallery, Clitheroe.

2002  Affordable Art Fair, Battersea.

2000  Didactex exhibition at The Knitting and Stitching Shows: London , Dublin , Harrogate .

1999  Madeira Show Harrogate .  

Alive and Stitching Group Shows:

2007 Bankfield Museum , Halifax

2007 Sheffield University Fine Art Society

2006 Farfield Mill, Sedburgh.

2005 Lupton Square Gallery, Honley.

2005 Millyard Gallery, Uppermill.

2004 Rufford Craft Centre.

2004 Upfront Gallery , Cumbria .

2004 Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery .

2003 Harding House Gallery, Lincoln .

2003 Treeline Gallery, Bakewell.

2002, 2003, 2005 Harley Art Market.  

Book Exhibitions:

2007 Bibliomania: Manchester Metropolitan University

2007 ABC: Northampton University  

Awards:

1998/99 Embroidery tours Europe as part of Anchor Modern Embroidery Award. Galleries include Galerie Smend , Germany and Textilmuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland .

1999 Winner Hand Stitch prize in Madeira Threads ‘Tomorrows World’ Competition.  

Recent Commissions:

2007 Large Hanging 'Naomi', Private Commission

2007 Harlequin Picture for ‘Harlequin Frames’, Private Commission

2006 Dancing on Tate Hill Sands, Private Commission

2005 Bright Blessings, Private Commission

2004 Wythenshawe Hospital , Cancer Ward.

2004 Large Hanging ‘Hannah’, Private Commission

2002 ‘Imogen’ and ‘Eleanor’ Pictures, Private Commission  

Public Collection:

2004 Purchase of 32 Fabric Postcards for Manchester Hospitals  

Profession:

Part-Time Adult Education Tutor for Derbyshire County Council for over 12 years currently delivering:

    City and Guilds Level 3 Design/Craft (Embroidery)

    City and Guilds Level 2 Design/Craft (Creative Sketchbooks)

   Progressive Stitches - non vocational embroidery

Privately led Workshops and talks to Art and Textile Groups:

A range of workshops and talks given in public galleries and to specialist groups, including:

   2006 Illustration in Stitches, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

Group Work:

Designed and co-ordinated  large embroidered Millennium Banner worked by 40 members of Church. Now hangs in St Johns Church , Walton.

 Articles:

2007 ‘Back to Bayeux ’ Online Article for ‘Workshop on the Web’ December

2007  Harlequin Frames Commission featured in ‘Art and Business’ August 2007

2004 ‘Fabric Pictures’ Online Article for ‘Workshop on the Web’ December.

2004 ‘Fabric Postcards’ Online Article for ‘Workshop on the Web’ March.

2003 ‘Mona Lisa – A Life’ August/September issue ‘Workbox’ Magazine.

1999 ‘Collage and Colour; A Suitable Base for Embroidery’ May issue ‘The World of Embroidery’.

 Qualifications:

2007 ‘Connect’ @ the Usher Gallery, Post Graduate Certificate in Arts Practice, Derby University

2007 ‘Creative Sketchbooks’ City and Guilds Level 2

1982  Art Teachers Certificate, Goldsmiths College , University of London

1979  BA Fashion/Textiles (Embroidery), Birmingham Polytechnic

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