Category: Exhibitions
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Close Distance at Woollaton Hall
A visit to the extraordinary installation Close Distance by Caroline Broadhead, Nic Sandiland and Angela Woodhouse this week was a real delight. The work, inspired by 17th century textiles from Woollaton Hall and the stories of those who lived there, has been created by three artists in collaboration using dance, construction and film. The works are displayed…
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Criminal Quilts 2017
My Criminal Quilts series originally commissioned by Shire Hall Gallery is probably my best known work including the 2016 Fine Art Quilt Masters winner. This winning piece will be exhibited in the Minerva Arts Centre this summer and the patchwork piece will be at Unit Twelve from the end of April. I’m really excited to be starting…
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Fragments – Researching a new series of work
Small fragments of cloth combined to make a greater whole. Each stitch, each thread, each moment of the maker contribute to a broad canvas of narrative. I have been invited by the Quilt Association to showcase some work in their summer show and chose to spend time developing new work inspired by their collections. Fragments…
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Surface Pattern exhibition at Unit Twelve
I’m exhibiting my Criminal Quilts: Patchwork in Unit Twelve’s (Surface) Pattern exhibition from 27th April – 26th August.
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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.