Criminal Quilts exhibition is now open at the University of Wolverhampton. I will be giving a free talk and tour of the exhibition on Weds 21st November at 5pm. The exhibition continues until 18th January 2019. Please check opening hours and Christmas / weekend closure dates here. I am also working on a symposium for […]
Suffrage is a new exhibition at Llantarnam Grange Art Centre focusing on textile art and political expression to mark the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage. I am one of the exhibiting makers alongside Morwenna Catt, Eleanor Edwardes, Caren Garfen, Rozanne Hawklsey and Sue Shields. The exhibition opens Saturday 6th October 2018. My piece, Prison Apron, explores the prison […]
Festival of Quilts is just around the corner! I am scrambling to get my book finished and printed ready for the show, alongside a massive exhibition gallery for Criminal Quilts including older and brand new work, including the collaboration quilt. I also have a piece in the Fine Art Quilt Masters competition exhibition again, which […]
Today marks my 13th anniversary as full-time self-employed! My work has changed so much in that time from the early days making cushions, then wall panels, then finally settling down in 2009-10 to something more like the kind of work I make now. Along the way there have been books, kits, patterns, Ruth Singer Studio, […]
I’m pleased to have had another piece accepted into the Fine Art Quilt Masters at Festival of Quilts again this year. Tracery will be shown in a large gallery with a lot of other really exciting textile pieces, 9-12th August. I will also be exhibiting my Criminal Quilts project in a gallery of its own […]
I’ve just worked out that I have work in six different showcases and exhibitions this weekend – and some continuing into June. This weekend only – Design Nation showcase at Eunique, Karlsruhe Germany Biography in Cloth in Fringe Arts Bath – closes Sunday Wolverhampton School of Arts Degree Show until 20th June Emotional Repair solo […]
Criminal Quilts Book is open for pre-orders now! Pre-orders are open until 20th July at a discounted price of £10 per copy which includes a signature, free postcard and the chance to include your name as a supporter in the back of the book. ORDER HERE The books will be printed at the end of […]
Over the last 6 months I have been working with Wolverhampton University Fashion and Textiles Department as creative partners in Criminal Quilts. I will be showing a small display of new work in progress during the University Degree Show 9th-20th June. Monday to Saturday 10-4. Find the display on the first floor within Fashion and […]
Criminal Herstories is a local history display for Staffordshire libraries related to Criminal Quilts. The display contains a large book based on a prison photo album, of images and information about the prison photo albums and our research about the women appearing in them. It also includes a patchwork made by project volunteers and a […]
In June I will be presenting my research on the clothing worn by women in the Stafford Prison photo albums 1877-1916 (from my Criminal Quilts project) at an academic workshop at Wolverhampton University on Thursday 7th June. The event Textiles and Dress from Below: Ordinary and Everyday Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses looks at […]
