Qualifications and training
2003 - MA Fine Art, University of Liverpool
2001 - Cert. Advanced Studies in Art, University of Liverpool
1999 - BTEC HNC Stitched and Constructed Textiles, West Cheshire College, Chester
1998 - City and Guilds Creative Studies - Embroidery Parts 1 and 2, West Cheshire College, Chester
1986 - BEd Hons, University of Liverpool
Commission
2023 - Commissioned by Saatchi Art to make 3 artworks for 1 Hotel Mayfair, London
Publication
2022 - Mixed Media Textile Art in Three Dimensions, author Ann Goddard, published by Batsford Books
Interview
2022 - Fibre Arts Take Two Friday Feature Artist interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4l-VM45fIA
Competitions, prizes and awards
2021 - The John Doubleday Art Award
2021 - Winner Award, The Cambridge Invitational Art Contest 2021
2019 - Vlieseline Fine Art Textile Award
2010 - Grand Prize, Amateras Annual Mini Paper Art Exhibition, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 - Honourable Mention, International Biennial Miniature Art, Salle Augustin-Chenier, Ville-Marie, Canada
2000 - Main Award winner, Charles Henry Foyle Trust Award for Stitched Textiles
1999 - Embroiderers' Guild Graduate Showcase, The Knitting & Stitching Shows
1998 - Highly Commended, City & Guilds Creative Embroidery Part 2
1996 - City and Guilds Medal of Excellence for Creative Studies Embroidery Part 1
Group exhibitions
2024 - ‘Making as Learning’, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Yorkshire
2024 - Fresh Air Sculpture, Quenington Old Rectory, Quenington, Gloucestershire
2024 - Tailored touring to The Hub, Sleaford
2024 - Fiber in 3D, Fiber Art Now magazine, USA
2023 - Embroiderers Guild Retrospective Exhibition, Knitting & Stitching Show, London, Harrogate
2023 - Tailored, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Yorkshire
2023 - Fiber Reimagined, Fiber Art Now magazine, USA
2023 - 2024 International Art Textile Bienniale 2023, Australia, touring exhibition to 8 galleries
2022 - Essence, 62 Group touring exhibition, Knitting & Stitching Show London; Harrogate
2022 - Conversations, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington
2021 - The Cambridge Invitational Art Contest 2021, Castle Fine Art Cambridge and Online
2019 - Vlieseline Fine Art Textile Award touring exhibition, Birmingham, London, Harrogate
2019 - VIII WTA International Biennial Contemporary Textile Art - Madrid Spain
2019 - CTRL/Shift, NCCD, Sleaford touring to 20/21 Visual Arts Centre , Lincolnshire
2018 - CTRL/Shift, MAC, Birmingham
2018 - International Miniature Art Biennial (IMAB), Ville Marie, Canada
2017 - Arte&Arte Miniartextil touring exhibition; Como, Italy; Montrouge, Paris, France; Gif sur Yvette, France
2017 - Fresh Air 2017, Quenington Old Rectory, Quenington, Gloucestershire
2017 - Making Space, Spring Knitting & Stitching Show touring exhibition, Olympia, London; Highland Centre, Edinburgh
2017 - Excellence in Fibers online exhibition, Fiber Arts Now magazine, USA
2016 - Making Space, Macclesfield Silk Museum, Macclesfield, Cheshire
2015 - Arte&Arte Miniartextil touring exhibition, Como, Italy; Montrouge, Paris, France; Caudry, France; Venice, Italy
2015 - Power of Ten, SIT Select, Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2015 - 62 Group Now, Upfront Gallery, Unthank, Cumbria
2014 - Ebb & Flow, Fishing Heritage Centre / Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
2013 - British Textile Art, Koyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 - Pinpoint, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks
2013 - Pink Wood, Bruton, Somerset
2013 - 6th International Biennial Exhibition on Mini Textile, Kherson Local Lore Museum, Kherson, Ukraine
2013 - Small Talk, Constance Howard Gallery, Goldsmiths University of London, London
2013 - Miniature Magnified, The Beetroot Tree, Draycott
2013 - A Personal Perspective, Craft In The Bay, Cardiff
2013 - Cabinets of Curiosities and Room of Wonder, The Borough Museum & Art Gallery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
2012 - 62@50, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh
2012 - 62@50, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
2012 - Interventions, Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester
2012 - Package Tour, Alexandra Palace, London
2012 - Package Tour, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate
2012 - Package Tour, RDS, Dublin
2011 - 7 Strands, Gate Gallery and Grimsby Minster, Grimsby
2011 - 7th International Biennial of Textile Miniatures, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 - Sofia International Paper Art Biennial
2011 - National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 - VI WTA International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art - Air, The Ramon Alva de la Canal Gallery of the University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico
2010 - Amateras Annual Mini Paper Art Exhibition 2010, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 - Bending More Lines, Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2010 - Cartasia Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cavallerizza, Lucca, Italy
2010 - International Biennial Miniature Art (Finalists), House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada
2010 - International Biennial Miniature Art (Finalists), Museum of Contemporary Art Latino-American de la Plata (MACLA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 - International Biennial Miniature Art 2010, Salle Augustin-Chenier, Ville-Marie, Quebec, Canada
2010 - Made To Fit, The Willis Museum, Basingstoke
2010 - The 62 Group of Textile Artists, Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Netherlands
2009 - Bending the Line, The Hub National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford
2009 - Bowland - An Inspirational Landscape, The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
2009 - Moving On, Upfront Gallery, Nr Penrith, Cumbria
2008 - Considered Matter, Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley
2008 - Designer Crafts 2008, Mall Galleries, London
2008 - Healing, Norton Priory Museum & Gardens, Runcorn
2008 - Size Matters, Rochester Art Gallery & Craft Case, Rochester
2008 - Stuff: contemporary textiles by the 62 Group, Catmose Gallery, Oakham
2008 - The Foyle Trust Award Winners Exhibition, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch
2007 - 62 Group, Textile Gallery, Knitting & Stitching Show, Birmingham, London, Dublin, Harrogate
2007 - Abstract Construction, The Beetroot Tree, Draycott, Derbyshire
2007 - Square Route, Blackburne House, Liverpool
2007 - Stitched Up, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, N.Yorks
2007 - You Are Here, The Kitchen Gallery, Runcorn
2006 - Art of the Stitch, RWA, Bristol; The Hub, Sleaford, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead
2006 - E Squared, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conway
2006 - E Squared, Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2006 - Expressions, The Brindley, Runcorn
2006 - Tracing Threads, New work by the 62 Group of Textile Artists, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove, East Sussex
2005 - In the Square, Cajobah Gallery, Birkenhead
2005 - Showcase, The Maria Louisa Gallery, Liverpool
2004 - Consequences, Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2004 - The Hard with the Soft, Cajobah Gallery, Birkenhead
2003 - MA Fine Art exhibition, University College Chester
2002 - A Time and a Place, Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2001 - Affordable Art Fair, London (with Beatrice Royal Gallery)
2001 - Art of the Stitch, Mall Galleries, London; Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
2001 - Madeira Show, Harrogate
2001 - Open Art Exhibition, Grosvenor Museum, Chester
2000 - Affordable Art Fair, London (with Beatrice Royal Gallery)
2000 - Connections: Africa's West Coast, The Beetroot Tree, Draycott, Derbyshire
2000 - New Horizons, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch
2000 - Progressions, Yale Memorial Art Gallery, Wrexham
2000 - Riches of Stitches, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
2000 - Spring Showcase, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art & Craft Gallery, Hampshire
1999 - Graduate Showcase, Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London; RDS, Dublin; Main Halls, Harrogate
1999 - Open Exhibition, Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan
1997 - City & Guilds Showcase, National Needlecraft Show, Olympia, London
Talk
2021 - Skill of Constructed, Sculptural Textiles: Constructed and Sculptural Textiles within a Mixed Media Practice; Fashion and Textile Museum, London, in collaboration with the 62 Group of Textiles
Web articles:
2022 - #Five2Watch: 'Collaboration', www.axisweb.org
2013 - Artist of the Month (August), www.axisweb.org
2013 - Featured Artist (April), www.textileartist.org
2012 - Artist Interview, www.textileartist.org
Books and Journals:
2015 - Selected Journal issue 2: Spring/Summer 2015
2012 - Radical Thread, The 62 Group 1962-2012; ed. Lesley Millar; pub.Direct Design Books
2011 - La Palabra y el Hombre, issue 18, December 2011, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Exhibition Catalogues:
2019 - Vlieseline Fine Art Textile catalogue
2019 - CTRL/Shift, 62 Group of Textile Artists
2019 - VIII Bienal De Art Textil Contemporaneo, WTA, Madrid 2019
2014 - Ebb & Flow, 62 Group of Textile Artists
2013 - A Personal Perspective on Landscape, The Makers Guild in Wales
2011 - Sofia Paper Art Fest, Amateras Foundation, Bulgaria
2011 - VI Bienal Arte Textil Contemporaneo, Aire, WTA, Mexico
2011 - Vanish / Survive, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 - Amateras Mini Paper Art, Bulgaria
2009 - Bending the Line, 62 Group of Textile Artists
2008 - Designer Crafts at the Mall, Society of Designer Craftsmen
2007 - Knitting & Stitching Show (CD), 62 Group of Textile Artists
2006 - Tracing Threads (CD), 62 Group of Textile Artists
2006 - Art of the Stitch, Embroiderer’s Guild
2000 - New Horizons, Charles Henry Foyle Trust
1998 - City & Guilds Calendar (February)
Professional Memberships
The 62 Group of Textile Artists
WTA (World Textile Art)