Belgium Museum of Industrial Archaology and Textiles, Gent : ‘Art in Motion’: group exhibition

Netherlands : Silkmuseum Meliskerke, Middlesburg: Solo exhibition: Workshops were undertaken in Delft and in Zeeland.

Denmark: Surface Design/Tradition and Technology, Aarhus Kunstbygnyng :The project was spread over five days and involved exhibiting work, giving a masterclass and taking part in a symposium which explored links between old and new technology. The paper for the symposium was ‘Layers of Time’. The Masterclass combined combined digital imaging withcollage and traditional textile techniques.

2002
Germany: Hanover Handwerksform: ‘Batik of Change’
Exhibit included resist dyed layered silk books, and digital collage books.

Japan : Awarded a travel bursery from Yorkshire Arts to travel to japan and exhibit in a group exhibition in Saitama, at Prefectural museum of Modern Art .

2001/2
Germany: Berlin Galerie im parc: ‘Taktha’; Exhibition. Symposium paper: "Batik in the Digital Age"
The exhibition travelled to Gallery Smend in Koln; and Central Museum of Textiles : Lodz : POLAND.
The exhibition was also preceded by two promotional exhibitions in Berlin: ‘Kunst fordert Kunst’ and ‘Tarien Warna

1999
Belgium International Batik exhibition & Symposium, Ghent: Symposium paper: ‘Art Fabric into books’

1997
China : Awarded a travel bursery from Yorkshire Arts to travel to Guiyang Textile Museum, Guizou Province: International Exhibition & Symposium. Symnposium Paper : ‘Spatial Sensation and the medium of Dye’

1995 SMALL PIECES FOR EUROPE, a touring exhibition of miniatures curated by the exhibiting group "New Fibre Art" to venues in France, Austria, Spain and Ukraine.

1993
Indonesia Edwins Gallery, Jakarta : International Batik exhibition

1992
China : Guiyang Textile Museum, Guizou Province: Joint English/Chinese Artists Exhibition

LECTURES/SLIDE TALKS summary

2003/4 UK Took part in three Artists and Educators conferences. Talks centred around 'Technology and Tradition'

2003 Denmark Aarhus : Tradition and technology conference : ‘Layers of Time’
2001 Berlin : Batik Symposium : 'Batik in the Digital Age'
1999 Ghent : Batik Symposium : Art Fabric into Books'
1997 China Guizhou : Batik Symposium 'Spatial Sensation and the medium of Dye
1992 Batik Guild A.G.M. : Line and Colour

PARTICIPATION in EXHIBITIONS IN UK: 1990 – 2002 Selected list

2004 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield "Genius" group exhibition.

Undertook a major collaborative work with a sound technician, and poet involving using moving image, sound and words - exhibited at various venues in Sheffield

2003 :Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan : Artists "Encounters with New Technology". including a conference for Artists and Educators

2002 :Morley Gallery, London, and Maidstone Museum: Group exhibitions with New fibre Art)

2002 : Bolsover Castle : Site Specific group exhibion with Sheffield Contemporary Artists

1998 : Ruskin Craft Gallery, Sheffield : Sheffield Threads: open Textile exhibition/competition
1995 : Solo exhibition: Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
1991 : Sheffield Globe Works. (Sheffield Cultural Festival : group exhibition
1991 : Notts Rufford Craft Centre Group Batik Exhibition.

1990 Sheffield Graves City Art Gallery: Joint Adventures: Artists and Participants of Residencies.(Schools Loan Collection Exhibition)

 

Several Site specific exhibition projects have been undertaken with different Artists groups.
With New fibre Art: Norton Priory ‘Fibre in the open’, an exhibition in a Medieval walled garden. With Sheffield contemporary Artists at the
Bishops House Museum, Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield Botanic Gardens, Midland Railway Station and Bolsover Castle

1970 -1990
Group exhibitions have included Venues in Belfast; and Lancaster. In addition, Mid Pennine Arts Association Gallery, ART GALLERY, Doncaster; MAPPIN ART GALLERY Sheffield; THE PIECE HALL, Halifax; and MAIDSTONE MUSEUM. BRITISH CRAFT CENTRE: London; RUFFORD CRAFT CENTRE : Notts. CITY ART GALLERY, RUSKIN CRAFT GALLERY, Sheffield,; CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE: London; STYAL MILL Textile Museum: VERNON GALLERY, Preston; and GAWTHORPE HALL Textile museum, Lancs.

 

ARTWORKS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS, include

Work represented in public and private Collections, includes 

Textile Museum, George Washington University, Washington US (A commissioned piece is in the Lloyd T. Cotsen collection, 'Textile traces' which has now been given to the Museum)

Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois,
Carmelite Chapel of St Teresa of Avila, Beacon, New York
Filac : International collection of Contemporary Artists Books (Marseilles)
                                 (Book of Shadows, Seepage 2, Imperfect Rose, Iceland Notes)      
Neukoln Public Library - Art Office Collection;
Textile collection, Kiev Art Gallery, Ukraine;
Guiyang Museum, Guizhou, China.
Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki, Finland
Manchester MMU (Phillip Green Library, special collections)
British Art Library, V&A,

Sheffield Artists Book Centre Collection

Bath Spa University Library

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

MULTI MEDIA COLLABORATIONS: A collSaborative multi media work “ Fall of Flower” took place in 2004 with sound technician Jessica Hodson and poet Liz Cashdan. This incorporated moving image, sound and words and was exhibited at various venues in Sheffield. This was followed by ‘Shadows’ (2006) a piece inspired by autograph albums kept by a stewardess on the Transatlantic liners in the 1930’s. In both works I created the image sequence and collaborated on production. 'Herbal notebook' 2008 exhibited at Norton Priory, Runcorn . in 2009, a residency in Iceland for the group led to 'Iceland Stories'. In 2016, 'Sea Speaks' for an exhibition at Liverpool Library

VISUALS IN VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING

2024 PAPER ART 111 , ART POWER

2021/2 Catalogue, Papier Global 5 : Deggendorf Museum, Germany

2019 INTERNATIONAL PAPER ART EXHIBITION SHANGHAI

2016 : The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection

2013 Textiles, the Art of Mankind Mary Schloeser

2013 IAPMA Paper Art 2

2012 Catalogue, Papier Global 2: Catalogue, Deggendorf Museum, Germany

2011 PAPER and TYPE: PRINT Chiongdu International Craft Biennale,

2010 Fascinating Batik : Rita Trefois

2009 Catalogue, Papier Global : Catalogue, Deggendorf Museum, Germany

2009 IAPMA : Paper Art 1,

2008 Pure Paper : Catalogue, Holland paper Biennale, 2008

2008 Textiles Now, Drusilla Cole

2007 Fibre Art International, 2007

2006 Surface Design Magazine : article by Patricia Malarcher

2003 Batik – Modern Concepts and Techniques; (Noel Dyrenforth)

2000 'Textiel Plus' (Netherlands) Article/visuals - (Written by Else Van Baale).

1997 “The craft of handmade paper” by Jon Plowman

1997 Catalogue : Guiyang International Combined Exhibition

1996 Artists books included in “ARTBibliographies Modern”

1995 “International Textiles” (Published by Calman and King)

“ The Art and Craft of Fabric Decoration” by Juliet Bawden

1994 : "Textiles: Multi cultural Traditions" by Spyrou/Singer

1993 : Visuals and Dyed paper pieces for "Real Art"; a limited edition Visual Art Publication.

ARTISTS UNIQUE BOOKS, COLLABORATIONS AND EDITIONS
Unique Books :early
‘Out of Darkness’, A visual story which exists both in electronic form, and as a tactile piece in which I explored the idea of the inevitability of evolutionary change.

Editions have included
A time of Roses : an edition of 25 copies. A Dyeing Art : a limited edition book of 100 copies, written, to accompany a solo exhibition of the same name. An explanation in text and visuals :why use dye. Black Flame : A facsimile book.

Book Collaboratations with the poet Liz Cashdan, consist of three handmade books which combine visual and textual.

Blueness : edition 100 : a fold book of silk and paper construction
Waterfall : 45 made
Flotsam : Four made

TEACHING, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS
For a number of years part time lecturer at the Sheffield College, teaching Textiles, Digital imaging and Bookarts. Over thirty years I have undertaken many demonstrations, workshops and residencies with schools,colleges, and with private groups.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Born in UK; lives and works in Sheffield.

Liverpool College of Art and Design ( Now John Moors University)

(1964-7) DIP. A.D FINE ART
(1963-4) DIPLOMA IN PRE DEGREE FOUNDATION STUDIES