Category: Projects
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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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Craft Cultures: Making a Living From Craft
I’m pleased to be taking part in a week of research, discussion and academic debate about the contemporary significance of craft at Leicester University and sharing my story about making a living. The event is free and open to all so please come along if you are interested. Making a Living from Craft Workshop…
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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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Exploring DNA 2
After a bit of a hiatus over the summer, Gillian and I have restarted our DNA project and spent the morning working at Leicester Print Workshop making prints using found objects. We will be exhibiting work in progress at the TedX Leicester event on 26th October.
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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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Harefield Centenary Quilt
The centenary quilt I made for Harefield Hospital last year is now on permanent display in the hospital’s main reception area. The quilt was created during a number of workshops for staff, patients and local community to celebrate 1o0 years of care on the Harefield Hospital site and uses archive and donated photographs, nurses…
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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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