background

exhibitions, prizes & awards

 

background

Susie Koren is a textile artist and interior designer living and working in East Sussex.  She trained at Chelsea School of Art in the 1980s and undertook the City & Guild Patchwork & Quilting Diploma in 2000 alongside studying surface design independently. Her investigation into methods of applying earth pigments to cloth led to the development of her soya milk binder based on a Japanese recipe

 

exhibitions

Selected and shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibitions Susie has exhibited widely in both Open Calls and textile exhibitions, winning the Selectors prize at The Royal Cambrian Academy Open in 2022 and The Fine Art Textile Award in 2015.  Her work has been selected for The London Group Open, The Royal West of England and prestigious international quilt exhibitions.

Through exhibiting in the UK, Europe and the USA she has regularly sold work internationally as well as in the UK.

Her recognition in the quilt art world has led to interviews with The Textile Curator, quilt magazines and work being featured  in textile art books.

 

  • exhibition history

2023

  • Discerning Eye Mall Galleries (selected)

  • Royal Cambrian Academy Annual Open,

  • 8th European Quilt Triennial: Switzerland

2022

  • RWA Royal West of England Bristol

  • Sussex Contemporary Brighton

  • South East Open Studios (SEOS)

  • Museu Textil Virtual exhibition

  • Royal Cambrian Academy Open Exhibition,

  • 8th European Quilt Triennial: Germany

2021

  • 8th European Quilt Triennial: Germany

2020

  • 7th European Quilt Triennial: Switzerland

  • Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric Germany

2019

  • RA Summer Exhibition - 2 works shortlisted

  • Fine Art Textile Award: Festival of Quilts

  • 7th European Quilt Triennial Germany & Austria

  • Masterworks:  Abstract & Geometric: Japan & Memphis USA

2018

  • 7th European Quilt Triennial: Germany

  • Sketchbook Project Brooklyn Library USA

2017

  • ViewSeven: A Sense of Place Menier Gallery London

  • Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric Houston

  • European Art Quilts Grande Finale The Netherlands

2016

  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition

2015

  • London Group Open

  • Fine Art Quilt Masters Festival of Quilts

  • ViewSeven Menier Gallery London

  • European Art Quilts VIII

2005-2014

  • ViewSeven, Menier Gallery London 2013

  • European Art Quilt (UK & Europe 2010, 2012 & 2014 catalogued)

  • 5th European Quilt Triennial (UK & Europe 2012 catalogued)

  • Ashdown Gallery (UK 2011 & 2012)

  • Place Sight & Sound (UK 2008)

  • Houston Festival of Cloth (USA 2007)

  • Quilt 2005 (UK catalogued)

 

prizes & awards

The Royal Cambrian Academy’s Selectors Prize funded the travel for Susie’s 2023 field trip to the AiR Kunstner Huset on the Lofoten Islands off Norway’s Arctic Coast

One Island Two Names 2021

Selectors Prize Royal Cambrian Annual Open 2022

Gravitational Force 1687 (2014)

Winner of The Fine Art Textile Award 2015

 

publications

Textile art books

  • Museu Textil ‘Intellectual Beauty’

  • Art Quilts International ‘Abstract & Geometric’ by Martha Sielman

  • Text in Textiles by Sara Impey

  • Paper & Metal Lamination, Finding Your Visual Language & Making your Mark: Committed to Cloth publications

Exhibition catalogues

  • 8th European Quilt Triennale 2021

  • 7th European Quilt Triennial 2018

  • European Art Quilt "Grande Finale" 2017

  • European Art Quilt VI, VII & VIII 2010, 2012 & 2014

  • 5th European Quilt Triennale 2012

  • Quilt 2005

 

interviews

both interviews give an excellent in depth overview of my artwork practice

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