Embroidery Magazine
I was delighted to be featured in Textile art magazine Embroidery Dec 25 where they were talking about some of my sculptures. You can read the full article via
https://embroiderymagazine.co.uk/subscribe/embroiderymag-back-issues/
The Hugo Burge Foundation
March 25 found me driving back to Scotland where I'd lived for 20 years. I was heading for the Hugo Burge Foundation where I'd been given a Textile residency for a month. I arrived (by chance) on my birthday and was soon shown, past the geese field, the tree where the owl sits, and the boat on stilts, to a turret which was my studio for the month. Best birthday present ever. There is a real feeling there of money being well spent on beautiful craftsmanship and a place that really appreciates artists. It's such a difficult, amazing but complicated life often being an artist , and to be in such a space dedicated to artists and being able to breathe for a time was such a delight and privilege. I spread my fabrics all around the turret and brought some of my creatures who felt very at home there. And spend the month sitting by a window stitching and thinking and stitching some more.
The 62 Group Of Textile Artists
I was really excited in Autumn 24 to be told I'd been awarded the Associate membership for The 62 Textile Group . This comes with some prize money, support for two years, and being part of such an illustrious textile group.
I never went to art college, it wasn't an option when I was younger, so it definitely has been a very winding journey to be at this place now. It was only in 2022 that I finally allowed out the creature tapping away to be let out from the door in my head, and returned to making after 20 years. There is a small part of me of course that wonder what if , what if I'd been able to go to art school, had that backing, had all those years of making. But it's been an interesting life, I like where my brain is now , and I have a degree of calmness now which allows space in my head for creating. Those creatures in there are demanding and I think earlier in life there was too much chaos to give them the space they needed.
This year the Exhibition was at The Crafts Study Centre ,university museum of modern crafts Farnham. Upcoming in 2025 Touchlines will be at Sunny Bank Mills Gallery , Leeds 1st – 31st May 2026
Crafted Exhibition
I'll be exhibiting as part of CRAFTED , a biennial exhibition of contemporary craft, design and fine art at Kirkby Gallery from 30 October – 23 December
The Crafted exhibition will showcase metalwork, textiles, fashion, ceramics, illustration, collage, painting and book art from artists and makers including Becky Atherton, Kelly Broughton, Kate Bufton, Hollie Cooper, Julie Dodd, Harry Garner, Heston Isle Press, David Holmes, Sue McLaren, Ali Pickard, Catherine Rogers, Julie Taylor, Kate Tidmarsh, Hilary Marteau and the North West Book Art Group.
For 2023, the exhibition has been co-curated with Liverpool Book Art, celebrating the creative practice of book art through unique hand-made books, stories & illustrations, distinctive notebooks,
prints, book sculptures, bindings, and more!
Kirkby Gallery is located at the Kirkby Centre, Norwich Way, Kirkby L32 8XY
The Gallery is open Mon – Fr 10am – 5pm (last entry 4.30pm) and Saturdays 10am – 1pm (last entry 12.30pm)
