exhibitions & workshops
it is always a privilege to have worked selected for exhibitions, it’s a big validation of the time spent stitching and working in the studio
Visual Notebook - Tactile Pages Workshop: a 2 day workshop sharing my joy of sketchbook making - join me at West Dean 4-6 June.
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Delighted to be exhibiting at the 25th Atelier by the Sea Open in Brighton this year, my local coast where I go to stare at the horizon and reconnect to the sea when I can’t get to the remote empty Scottish and Norwegian coastlines that inspires much of my work
B9 Gallery Marine Workshops Station Approach Newhaven, East Sussex BN9 0
This exciting national open-call exhibition invites UK-based makers, artists, and craftspeople to respond to the theme UNDOINGS. Our ambition is to present work by contemporary UK creatives that responds to the theme and identifies a shared aesthetic.
The selection panel will focus on ‘handmade' artworks and structures. The works the panel will look for can be created using simple, repetitive actions, such as repetitive mark-making, crochet, plaiting, weaving, and winding, as well as stringing, shredding, binding, and crumpling.
Drawing on a wide range of materials, colors, scales, and textures, the works can be as much bound together as they are poised to disintegrate.
visual notebook tactile pages
develop ideas through colour drawing & stitch
The workshop aims to inspire and encourage the establishment of a rewarding versatile sketchbook practice, a private reflective space to investigate ideas that makes an invaluable studio resource.
On the first morning you will have the opportunity to gather resources from the beautiful West Dean garden. Observing your compiled resources will form the inspiration for small exploratory tactile studies on paper and cloth, developing ideas through experimental drawing, stitch and colour to create a visual notebook
with guidance you will learn to sequence your ideas and undertake experimental drawing and mark making exercises using a range of techniques and materials; through painting colour studies you will achieve subtle variations in hue, tone, shade developing a personal palette.
With support and mentoring you will discover the benefits of being curious, playful, and embracing accidental mistakes, of noticing and evaluating your outcomes to expand your understanding of various processes and identify what interests and resonates with you.
The course is suitable for everyone - beginners and established artists who want to expand their practice.
Spirit of the River 2014
Please note the exhibition is not open every day
OPEN HOURS:
Thursday to Sundays only 11am - 5pm
Marine Workshops, Railway Approach, Newhaven, East Sussex BN9 0DF
The theme of The Sussex Contemporary Open Exhibition 2024 is DUALITY. Harbour Wall (sunrise) & Harbour Wall Sunset exhibited as a pair at the Menier Gallery in London and will again be exhibited as a pair at the Sussex Contemporary 2024 - for sale as a pair £1,250.00
(artwork size 92cm x 92cm each)
Harbour Wall Sunrise & Harbour Wall Sunset - Sussex Contemporary 2024 Newhaven East Sussex
Harbour Wall Sunrise & Harbour Wall Sunset
Menier Gallery, London 2017
Sense of Place connecting people & land through cloth
using materials that have not changed over thousands of years my
SAQA Annual Conference 2024
showcasing innovative textile artists from 16 countries across Europe & The Middle East
highlights from the speech outlining my textile tour
ochre quarry
I first discovered natural earth pigments on a visit to the village of Roussillon in the South of France in 2008
colour
my muted palette is created using a soya milk binder to paint ground earth pigments onto cloth
field work
connecting to the land I always carry a sketchbook to record things like colours, textures and lines that might translate into fabric and stitch
research
pigment road trip to Cornwall to gather and process my own earth pigment from the mineral rich soil
hand stitching
forms undulations and texture like you find on the earths surface: drawn lines, expressive marks that adds colour, shading & movement
There were 6,500 submissions and 6 selectors who each selected about 100 works for their gallery space. I would like to thank Peju Oshin for selecting and hanging my work in her beautifully curated space.
All works are available for sale during the exhibition 17-26 November and online until 31 December
Blanket Bog 2023 35 x 35cm Discerning Eye Exhibition 2023
More information nearer the time
Pull of the Moon
selected 8th European Quilt Triennial 2021-2023
Textile and quilt artworks from fifteen nations: Fifty works were chosen from more than 150 submissions by an international jury, which also included Judith Mundwiler. The artworks provide impressive proof that creativity, artistic inspiration and a critical approach to the times are not confined to painting, sculpture, graphic art and photography alone.
Politically motivated works reflect themes such as “Black Lives Matters” or the situation of women in Afghanistan. Of course, the global pandemic and its complex ramifications both for individuals and for society as a whole occupy a weighty chunk of the artists’ output. Other works emphasize the aesthetic moment and are devoted to creative issues, such as the play with color, form and materials.
The “8th European Quilt Triennale” demonstrates the variety and artistic ambitions of contemporary art quilting. Seven Swiss female artists are represented – Edith Bieri-Hanselmann, Elsbeth Egger, Nesa Gschwend, Heidi König, Beatrice Lanter, Rita Merten and Michèle Samter – who represent the active quilting scene in the country. The Doris Winter Memorial Prize, which honors innovation in materials, technique and design, went to Switzerland once again this year: it was awarded jointly to Heidi König and Rita Merten.
The “8th European Quilt Triennal” is organized by the Textilsammlung Max Berk Heidelberg and is on show in the Textile Museum St. Gallen as part of an exhibition tour from October 7, 2022 to April 9, 2023 (Easter Mondey). A catalogue with the same title is published with the exhibition, which is available in the shop at the Textile Museum.
Previous venues:
10 October 2021 Textilsammlung Max Berk Kurpfalzisches Museum in Heidelberg Germany
16 January 2022 - 24 April 2022: Kreismuseum Zons/Dormagen, Germany
7 October 2022 Textile Museum St Gallen Switzerland
Museu Textil virtual exhibition & accompanying book
Rodrigo Franzao established Museu Textil a permanent virtual gallery in 2020 with the aim to promote cultural and artistic expression between Brazil and other nations for textile artists.
“Intellectual Beauty” curated by Rodrigo is Museu Textil’s second virtual exhibition and I feel privileged to be exhibiting alongside talented textile artists from around the world.
Rodrigo approached me having come across my work on The Textile Curator and ask if I would be interested in being featured on the Museu Textil social media platforms. “Loch Acha Mor”, “Luskentyre Sands” & “Furnace Wood” were posted on MuTE Instagram in August 2021 that led to the sale of ‘Loch Acha Mor’.
Please take time to read the press release and Rodrigo’s curatorial introduction on the links below
“Ice Wall” and “Luskentyre Sands” selected for this years Royal Cambrian Academy Open
last year “One Island Two Names” won the Selectors Prize
Royal Cambrian Academy, Crown Lane, Conwy, LL32 8AN Wales
Exhibition opens 7 January to 25 February 2023
Open times:
11am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday (closed Sunday & Monday)
Glacier Meltwater & Blue Arctic Dawn
love the way the visitor is looking at the exhibition
“Blue Arctic Dawn” and “Glacier Meltwater” were both selected for the prestigious 169th Royal West of England Annual Open in Bristol, the Gallery has recently been refurbished and is looking stunning
the day I visited, there was a group of partially sighted visitors who were feeling some of the sculptures, I suggested they could feel my work, follow the couched stitch line with a finger and run a hand over the rough scratchy horsehair stitching - I explained the background story behind the work and it was a very special moment when I overheard one of them telling another what they’d seen
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Luskentrye Sands & Windswpet Beach - private view
Delighted to be exhibiting two favourite pieces of mine
Luskentyre Sands & Windswept Beach.
The Sussex Contemporary Exhibition on Brighton Sea front a the BAi360 building - fabulous location
Dates: 8-22 October
Opening times: 11am to 5pm
highlighting the fragile and & beauty of the arctic region
work made in response to Norwegian Coast voyage
&
a retrospective of earlier work from 2018 onwards
“Traeth Maw” & “One Island Two Names” have been selected for the Royal Cambrian Academy Of Art Annual Open Exhibition 2022.
As a featured artist in Martha Sielman's Abstract & Geometric Art Quilts International book my work "Keeping Still" is part of the Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric touring exhibition that opened at Festival of Quilts in Houston in November 2017, has toured Japan in 2019 before returning to the States in May 2019 & touring European in 2020
An invitational exhibition of one work each by 29 artists featured in the new book Art Quilts International: Abstract & Geometric by Martha Sielman. These engaging works of art represent a range of styles across the abstract art spectrum. Participating artists come from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and across the US.
"Keeping Still" sold on the opening night at the Festival of Quilts in Houston but will remain part of the travelling exhibition.
EXHIBITION VENUES 2020
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo - Raleigh, North Carolina: July 20 - August 1, 2020
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo - Arlington, Texas: August 27 - 29, 2020
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo - Cincinnati, Ohio: September 17 - 19, 2020
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo - Fredericksburg, Virginia: October 8 - 10, 2020
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo - Novi, Michigan: November 12 - 14, 2020
Previous Exhibition Venues
International Quilt Festival: Houston, Texas USA - November 2017
International Quilt Festival; Chicago, Illinois USA - April 2018.
Quilt & Stitch Show; Tokyo Japan - 4-6 October 2018
Quilt & Stitch Show; Osaka Japan - 8-10 November 2018
Quilt & Stitch Show: Nagoya Japan - 28-30 March 2019
Crosstown Arts: Memphis Tennessee USA - 5 May to 30 July 2019.
11th Asia Quilt Festival Shanghai China - 20-22 September 2019
Max Berk Textile Collection, Palatinate Museum - Heidelberg, Germany June 2020
Fine Art Textiles Award - Knit & Stitch NEC Birmingham London & Harrogate
“Catenary Boat” selected for the Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award 2019
made painting earth pigments in homemade soya milk binder building up layers on vintage linen
hand stitched - thread a gestural line, stitch as expressive mark
in physics or geometry: ’ catenary’ is the curve formed from the weight of a chain or cable when supported only at its ends.. I have worked with this geometric form over several years.
The 2018 Sketchbook Project Mobile Library will be at the Ponce City Market North NE, Atlanta Georgia, 21-23 September and my sketchbook ‘Book of Stitch & Line” will be available to view.
To view ‘Book of Stitch & Line’ click here
I will be exhibiting with ViewSeven at their biannual exhibition at The Menier Gallery. The nearest tube is London Bridge. Borough Market and Tate Modern are both within a five-minute walk of the gallery. Please contact me if you wish to meet me at the Gallery.
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11.00-6.00pm Saturday 11.00-4.30pm (note early closing)
European Art Quilt Foundation “Grande Finale” 1 July – 3 September 2017
Historisch Museum de Bevelanden, Zusterstraat 11, Goes, The Netherlands.
"Pigment Landscape Coast" has been selected for the Edwardsville Art Centre, Illinois Sketchbook Exhibition curated by Katie Lochhead.
It was an honour to have “Furnace Wood” and “Climping Beach” selected for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition in 2016.
ViewSeven exhibited for the second time at the Menier Gallery, London SE1 1RU
"Climbing Beach" was selected for the London Group Open at The Cello Factory Gallery, London
Winner of Fine Art Quilt Masters 2015 Prize
ViewSeven's first exhibition at the Menier Gallery
"Keeping Still" has been selected for the 5th European Quilt Triennial touring exhibition.
Sketchbook Project 2012
Link to my sketchbook: Sketchbook Project Brooklyn Library
