Biography

1975 - 1st class (hons) B A Textiles/Embroidery, Goldsmith's College, London

Lives and works in Grimsby, England

 

Solo exhibitions

2017 - Displaced - Owen James Gallery, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York

 

2016 - Do You Remember Me? - Knitting & Stitching Shows invited gallery artist London, Dublin        

           & Harrogate

          People • Place • Time, Howden Park Centre, Scotland

 

2013 - Stuff and Nonsense, Gate Gallery, 12, Brighowgate, Grimsby, N E Lincs

 

2010 - Life on the Coast, Fishing Heritage Centre and Touring, Grimsby N E Lincs

 

2009 - Life on the Coast, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

           Woman with a Fish, Gate Gallery, 12, Brighowgate, Grimsby


Group exhibitions

2017 - Trait Portrait - touring throughout France

           Unknown People - Cleethorpes, N E Lincs, UK

           The Thread Unraveled - Group Exhibition, VM Art gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

           Making Space tour -  62 Group- Knitting & Stitching shows Spring & Edinburgh

           Through Our Hands - A Portrait, Festival of Quilts, NEC & touring

 

2016 -  Making Space - 62 Group- Silk Museum, Macclesfield, UK

            Intoxicating Textiles - Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Mass, USA

 

2015 - Illustrative and Stitched Drawings - Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear

           New Textiles Transformed - Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge , Massachusetts, USA

            Face The World, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln, UK

            Shifting Images, Muriel Barker Gallery, Grimsby,

             Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham, UK

             62 Group • NOW! - Upfront Gallery, Cumbria

             Designer Crafts at the Mall - Society of Designer Craftsmen

 

2014 - Ebb & Flow - 62 Group of textile Artists, Grimsby Minster & Fishing Heritage Centre

           Contextile, Guimaeres, Portugal, Scythia 10, Kherson, Ukraine

           Summer exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

           Beside the Sea, Bilston Craft gallery, Wolverhampton


2013 - Pinpoint 13, One Church St Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks, UK  

           9th Minitextiles Trienniel, Museum of Gdynia, Poland

           Designer Crafts, Mall Galleries, London

           Small Talk (62 Group), Constance Howard Gallery, London SE14 6NW

 

2012 - 62@50, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5LW

           62@50, Holden Gallery, Manchester M15 6BR

           Gate Group at Richmond Station, Richmond Station Gallery, Richmond, North Yorkshire

           Interventions, Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester

           Package Tour - 62 Group, Knitting & Stitching Show 2012, Alexandra Palace, RDS,

           Dublin, Harrogate Exhibition Centre

 

2011 - At a Tangent, Gallery Oldham, Oldham OL1 1AL

           Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Ryjswijk Museum, Netherlands

 

2010 - Afghanistan Inspiration, various, EU tour

           Bending more Lines - 62 Group, Collins Gallery, Glasgow

           Bending more Lines -62 Group, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands 2010 - The Dartboard for Witches, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales

 

2008 - Art of the Stitch - International Open Exhibition, Birmingham Art Gallery, Deutsches

           Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Knitting

           & Stitching shows, London & Harrogate , UK and Touring Europe

 

Curated projects

2011 - 7 Strands, Gate Gallery and Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, N E Lincolnshire

2010 - Life on the Coast, Fishing Heritage Centre and Cleethorpes Discovery Centre, Grimsby

           and Cleethorpes