Category: Exhibitions
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Interlace on show in Craft and Conflict at Bilston Craft Gallery
Work by Interlace is on show in Craft and Conflict at Bilston Craft Gallery until 22nd November 2014. We created work specifically for this show, using white petals instead of our usual colours. By creating fragile textile forms fixed into concrete, we explore making the ephemeral permanent and preserving memories set in stone. The…
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Old Textiles at October’s Sew Sociable
This month’s Sew Sociable will be all about old textiles. I’ll be giving a talk about my love of antique textiles, about museum collections, about my own collection of textiles and how I take inspiration from them to create my own textile art. Anyone coming to the event is enthusiastically encouraged to bring along their own…
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Show Season!
I’ve barely unpacked all the goodies I bought at the Festival of Quilts (last month) and apparently it is almost time for the Knitting & Stitching Show** – with the local Big Textile Show* in between. Festival of Quilts at the NEC Birmingham is always a favourite of mine – it is an hour away so…
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What’s in Your Shed? Exhibition at Snibston
This week I finally got to see my work Tool Shed on exhibition at Snibston, a museum a few miles away from me. Apparently this work inspired the whole exhibition project, which is really nice to know. My work is exhibited in a purpose-built shed, inside the giant museum shed-style building. It’s great that my dad was…
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Travelling Tool Shed
Today would have been my Grandad’s 98th birthday. My work, Tool Shed, inspired by his collection of tools, is heading off for a new exhibition later this month. What’s in Your Shed opens at Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire 26th July – 26th September 2014 curated and conceived by Transform, an arts project working to create artistic interventions…
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Maidens’ Garlands collaboration with Jan Garside
EDIT – In fact, this won’t be displayed. There was a miscommunication with the gallery & they didn’t install it properly. So I took it away again. I’ll put it up in the studio soon. My collaborative work with Jan Garside will be exhibited again this month.
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A Museum of Me
My collections and selections will be on display in the window collection at National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, from 3rd May to 13th July 2014 When faced with the task of selecting some objects which define my inspiration, I was almost overwhelmed. For years the main source of my ideas has been museum…
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Unfold – exploring the process of collaboration
I’m delighted to be showing my collaboration with Alys Power at this new exhibition at Walford Mill Crafts from 5th April – 18th May 2014. I’m just starting work on two new collaborations with makers for exhibition later this summer too, one with Bethany Walker and one with Sharyn Dunn.
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New exhibitions
Two pieces of my collaboration with Alys Power are now on display at Unit Twelve Contemporary Craft Open (the show that I won a prize at last year!). They’ve been beautifully displayed as usual, and the rest of the show looks stunning. I’m looking forward to getting over to see it. The show continues until…
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Selvedge Fair
The fantastic Selvedge Winter Fair is coming up next week! I have visited the show a few times but this will be my first time exhibiting. The fair is always amazing. Chelsea Old Town Hall is a stunning building and the main hall, side rooms and corridors are crammed with textile gorgeousness. There are designer-makers,…
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