CV
| Selected Exhibitions & Events
[Note: Many of these events are repeated annually] |
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| 2011 | Demonstrator at Art in Action Oxfordshire
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Jewellery Showcase Elemental Ruthin Craft Centre Solo Touring Show : NEW GROUNDS Farfield Mill, Sedbergh Palace Art Fair Fulham GNCCF Manchester Made by Hand Newport
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| 2010 | North Lincolnshire Print Open Ropewalk Gallery
Out of Print South Hill Park Solo Touring Show : NEW GROUNDS Bankfield Gallery: Ropewalk : Myles Meehan
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| 2009 | Featured Artist Knit and Stitch Shows NEC, Alexandra Palace, Dublin and Harrogate Festival of Quilts NEC Contemporary Textile Fair Landmark Arts Centre Saltaire Open Houses + Artist Talk
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| 2003-8 | Grand Designs Live! London
Brighton Art Fair Stark Gallery Blackheath, London Lupton Square West Yorkshire Derek Topp Gallery Edge Gallery Lancashire Solo Show ‘New Work’ Art Market, On the Wall Olympia Portfolio Gallery Pollyanna, Barnsley Landmark Art Fair London Platform Gallery Lancashire [with related workshops] ‘Naturally’ The Art Market Leeds Manchester Art Show Urbis, Manchester The Sculpture Lounge Holmfirth Kath Libbert Salts Mill Saltaire
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| 2002 | 100% Design Earls Court, London
‘Transitional Landscapes’ Solo touring
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| 2000 | Artisan Edinburgh
Mercedes Australian Fashion Week Sydney
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| 1996 | BCTF British Craft Trade Fair Harrogate
Chelsea Craft Fair Crafts CouncilFolded Forms Solo Show MAC MA Textiles UCE
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| 1992 | MAC Paper touring show
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| Experience/Workshops
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| 1998 – present |
Studio based workshops and touring |
| 2012 & 13 | Invited Tutor Ballarat Fibre Festival, Australia and New Zealand
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| 2011 | YSP Drawing for Textiles commissioned by Amanda Peach
Raising the Bar Bar Lane Studios York & Middlesbrough Birkby Juniors Huddersfield part of the Fartown Pyramid Arts Festival Trinity Academy Halifax Small Heath 6th Form St Mary’s College Blackburn Lincolnshire Art & Design
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| 2010 ongoing | West Dean College Winchester
Huddersfield Grammar School
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| 2009 | Greenhead College Arts Project
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| 2008 | Heckmondwike Grammar School
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| 2006 ongoing
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Huddersfield University |
| 2004 ongoing
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Co Founder of Radiant Works: Visual Arts Resource Huddersfield with Kinetic Sculptor: Martin Smith |
| 2003-10 | HOST Huddersfield Open Studio Trail I developed and ran the local trail for 7 years
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| 2002 | Kirklees Creative Exchange Artists network development
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| 2002 ongoing
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Freelance Creative mentoring CIDA Creative Industries Development Agency |
| 1995 – 8 | Barnsley College Course leader HND Design Crafts
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| 1990 ongoing | Visiting lecturer Coventry University, North Warwickshire College, Hereward College, Calderdale College, Bradford College |
| Awards
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| 2011 | GOLD: Craft and Design Magazine Selected Award for Textiles Uttoxeter Quilt and Embroidery show Innovative Embroidery winner, Embroidery Champion
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| 2008 | Grant for the Arts Arts Council funding for Research and Development
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| 2004 | Radiant Works: Art in the Neighbourhood Award
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| 2003-10 | HOST: Grants for the Arts
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| 2005-10 | HOST: Art in the Neighbourhood Award
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| 2002 | Arts Council commission evaluating studio needs in West Yorkshire
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| Education
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| 1996
1994 1992
1990
1987 |
MA Textiles UCE
Certificate of Education Warwick University
730 City & Guilds Education Tile Hill College
BA [Hons] Embroidery Goldsmiths London
Foundation Art & Design North Warwickshire College
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| Commissions
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| 2011
2007
2006
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2004
2001
2000
1999 |
Private commissions custom devoré dress fabric
Interiors Commissions
The London Furnishing Company
Eve Marlborough, London
Woodlands Hotel Art work & Devore room names
Private Commissions
La Rue, Saltaire, Bradford
Kath Libbert Jewellery, Saltaire, Bradford
Swan Lake, Leicester Haymarket |
| Publications
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2010
2009
2008
2007
2001
2000
1996 |
Craft and Design Magazine Award winners feature
Embellished Layers practical Project for Stitch magazine, commissioned by Janome Inspiring People, Sewing World
Embroidery magazine Handwerken Zonder Grenzen
Craft and Design Magazine Workshop on the Web Illustrated online tutorial Demystifying Devore DVD practical process 40mins DVD using a local film company Embroidery Magazine New Grounds, solo show review
www.textileart.net article with online Speed Drawing tutorial Craft and Design Magazine
Embroidery Magazine Workshop article
Good Homes Magazine Homes and Antiques
Drapers Record
International Textiles MA images used as trend forecasts |
