Exhibitions and Collections

Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2016 - Attach/Detach, PhD exposition, Contemporary Art Space Chester

  • 2013 - Concordance, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

  • 2006 - Sensual Austerity, The Hub: National Centre for Craft and Design and Bolton Museum and Art Gallery

  • 2004 - Serial Repetition Grosvenor Museum, Chester.

  • 1999 - Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service. Maidstone Library Gallery.

  • 1999 - Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen.

  • 1997 - Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service. Banbury Museum, Oxfordshire; Viables Craft Centre, Basingstoke; The Winchester Gallery, Hampshire.

Group Exhibitions:

  • 2016 - Art_Textiles, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

  • 2013 - Cloth & Memory {2}, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Shipley.

  • 2012 - Transformations, Smiths Row Gallery, Bury St Edmunds.

  • 2011 - Z Depth Buffer (joint exhibition with Sally Morfill), 5 Years Gallery, London

  • 2011 - Bite-Size: Miniature Textiles from Japan and the UK, Japan House Gallery, Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation

  • 2011 - PGR Exhibition, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich

  • 2010 - Thinking Practice, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich

  • 2010 - Material Evidence, Corsham Court Centre, University of Bath

  • 2009 - 4°: Intro, Cube Gallery, Manchester

  • 2009 - Encounter, Contemporary Urban Centre. Greenland Street, Liverpool

  • 2008 - Cloth and Culture NOW, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

  • 2007 - Unbound (Group exhibition with artists Caroline Broadhead, Susie MacMurray and Elizabeth Smith), Turnpike Gallery, Leigh

  • 2007 - Business as Usual, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.

  • 2005 - Reveal, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery

  • 2005 - Hands Across the Border. Ruthin Craft Centre; The Hub, Sleaford; Mission Gallery, Swansea: The Black Swan Gallery, Frome.

  • 2004/2005 - Through the Surface, Collaborating Textile Artists from Britain and Japan. James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, The Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College, Farnham; Brighton and Hove Museum and Art Gallery; The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich; Bankfield Museum, Huddersfield, and Piece Hall, Halifax; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery; Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

  • 2002 - The Gaps Between, International Textile Biannual 2002. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

  • 2002 - Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles. Crafts Council, London; Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester; Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny; Ulster Museum, Belfast

  • 2001 - The 10th International Triennial of Tapestry. Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland

  • 2001 - Dovetail. Travelling Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

  • 2000 - The Contemplative Stitch. H&R Block Artspace at The Kansas City Art Institute, USA

  • 1999 - The 6th International Textile Competition ’99 - Kyoto. Museum of Kyoto, Japan

  • 1999 - (Un) Limited. Diversity and Change in International Contemporary Craft. Crafts Council, London.

  • 1999 - Textures of Memory: The Poetics of Cloth. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Pittshanger Gallery, London; Piece Hall, Halifax; MAC, Birmingham

  • 1998 - Knot as They Seam: Puns and Permutations in Fibre Arts. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA

  • 1998 - Contemporary Embroidery: An International Perspective. The Arts Centre at Dockland, Bermuda

  • 1998 - Joint exhibition with Claire Curneen. MAC, Birmingham

  • 1998 - Stitch. Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery

  • 1998 - Natural Resources. Ruthin Crafts Centre, Oriel 31, Newtown

  • 1997 - Flexible 2 Pan European Art. Nederland Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands; Galeria Awangarda, Wroclaw, Poland; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain

  • 1997 - British Art Textiles. Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery; Watermans Art Centre, Brentford; Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate; Braintree District Museum, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham; Orleans Hose Gallery, Twickenham; MAC, Birmingham; Durham Art Gallery

  • 1997 - Leinen. Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany

Collections:          

  • Crafts Council, London

  • Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

  • ‘Doing Without: Sustaining 7 Square Metres’ purchased by the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme on behalf of Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery with funds from the Arts Council Lottery, 2003

  • Collaborative piece ‘Pockets/Ventillation Grill’ [produced as an outcome of Through the Surface, Collaborating Textile Artists from Britain and Japan] purchased by the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme on behalf of Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery with funds from the Arts Council Lottery, 2004