Category: Exhibitions
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Little Selves exhibition
Little Selves is an exhibition celebrating the portrait miniature showcasing exquisite pieces from the collections at New Walk Museum Leicester alongside new work by Leicester Society of Artists members and a schools competition. The exhibition takes place 25 March – 25 June 2017. Although I am no portraitist, I was intrigued by the potential it gave me…
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Interlace collaboration
My collaboration Interlace with Bethany Walker is going from strength to strength! In 2016 we ran Urban Growth an exciting community project with 8-13 year olds to create a permanent piece of concrete and cloth outdoor work of art in Leicester. This project was funded by the Joyce Carr Doughty Trust. Over the Spring and…
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Contemporary Craft Festival 2017
It’s an awfully long time since I exhibited at a selling show but the time has come! I am taking the Precious Objects out to the delightful Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey 9-11th June. I’m busy collecting weird and wonderful new tools, agricultural implements and mystery objects and trying out new mixed media techniques and…
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Made in the Middle
Interlace, my collaboration with Bethany Walker will be showing our brand new installation, Halo, in Made in the Middle opening with a preview on 1st December at The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Coventry. Made in the Middle is a touring exhibition curated by Craftspace, featuring 32 original and innovative makers from across the…
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Knitting & Stitching Show Harrogate
The Knitting & Stitching Show has its last outing in Harrogate next week. Interlace, my colourful concrete collaboration project with Bethany Walker will be taking shape again on Wednesday ready to open on Thursday 24th until Sunday 27th November. Any remaining stock will be for sale online as soon as I get back from the show,…
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Threads Open Textiles exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre
Two pieces from my Narrative Threads exhibition, Criminal Quilts Patchwork and Memorial Pincushions Project, are being shown in Threads Contemporary Textiles Open in Salisbury Arts Centre 1st October – 12th November 2016.
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Leicester Society of Artists
Earlier this year I was accepted as a member of Leicester Society of Artists and I’m pleased to be showing work in their 2016 exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester, 4th November – 3rd December. I’ll be showing two of my Garment Ghosts; suspended transparent pieces made from fragmentary antique clothing. For an invite to…
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Threads Contemporary Textiles Open Exhibition, Salisbury
Two pieces from my Narrative Threads exhibition, Criminal Quilts Patchwork and Memorial Pincushions Project, will be shown in Threads Contemporary Textiles Open in Salisbury Arts Centre 1st October – 12th November 2016.
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The Beauty of Stains goes travelling
The Beauty of Stains, the gloriously food spattered, tea splattered and embroidered tablecloth from my solo exhibition will be exhibited in R-Space Gallery, Lisburn, Northern Ireland during September in their Form Function & Food exhibition.
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Winner of the Fine Art Quilt Masters 2016
I’m astonished and delighted to have won the Fine Art Quilt Masters competition at the Festival of Quilts today for my piece Criminal Quilts: Hanging. Huge thanks to my friend, supporter and mentor Liz Cooper for encouraging me to push on with this work, the judges and the sponsors and of course to Staffordshire Records…
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