SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012        Excess, University of Central Lancashire,

Preston

2011        Flesh and Blood, Showcase, Penrith, Cumbria

2010        Inside Change, 50A Gallery, Egremont

2009        Excess*, Collins Gallery, Glasgow

2007        EAT*, Customs House, South Shields

2006        EAT*, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria

2005        Feast at Mind, Body and Spirit exhibition at GMEX, Manchester

2002        Journeys of Discovery, Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham

2001        WASTED “Are you sitting comfortably?” *Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle and The Dock Museum , Barrow 

2000        Soft Pots, Manchester Craft and Design Centre. 

Eco House, Brampton, Cumbria

Soft Touch, Fat Hen Gallery, Cumbria. 

 

TWO ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

2003        Personal Baggage* (with photographer Vince Bevan) touring exhibition of a sculptural and photographic response to residency in Distington, a village surrounded by landfill sites.

2001        In Sheep’s Clothing (with Annie Sherbourne) touring exhibition of the North – organised by ‘Designed for the Dales’ to bring contemporary art to rural communities.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012        The Open West, Gloucester Cathedral,

Gloucester

2011        Small, Mill Yard Studio, Staveley, Cumbria

12, Rhegd, Penrith, Cumbria

2010        Climate Change, Rhyl Arts Centre

Found 18 @108, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London

2009        Love London Recycled Sculpture Show, London Wetland Centre, Barnes

2008        Small, Mill Yard Studio, Staveley, Cumbria

Re-worked 2, Oriel Washington Gallery, Penarth and Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydril.

Fred, temporary public art invasion across Cumbria

2007        Mixed Media 18 @108, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London

Spectrum Sculpture Show, Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, Wiltshire

                  Local, Mill Yard Studio, Staveley, Cumbria

Fred, temporary public art invasion across Cumbria

2006        Art London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London

Conceive, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London

                  Landmarks 111, Lowood Gallery, Cumbria

Fred, temporary public art adventure across Cumbria

2005        The British are Coming, Fiberscene (USA) web exhibition

Brewery Open, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

2004        Pure Rubbish, Northern Quarter Gallery, Manchester

Of Material Concern, Sheffield Millennium Galleries

Fred, temporary public art invasion across Cumbria

2003        Trash, Ropewalk Gallery, North Lincolnshire

The Seating Plan, Green Gallery, Brighton

Essence, Lowood Gallery, Cumbria

Material Spaces, Tullie House Art Gallery and Museum

Snowcase 3, Fold Gallery, Kirkby Stephen

2002-3    Red *, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Beverley Art Gallery, Linen Museum, Ireland Upfront Cumbria and Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham.

InContext*, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Oxo Peugeot Design Awards Exhibition, Oxo Tower Wharf Gallery, London, and touring

2002        Hemmed In, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracy, Devon

Ideas, Bury Art Gallery and Museum

2001        ExtraOrdinary, Cumbria Institute of the Arts,  Queen Elizabeth College, Cleveland College,  Gateshead College, The Bowes Museum.

Room With A View, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, Cumbria

Recycled, Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston, Lincolnshire. 

Collective Response, Bankfield Museum, Halifax

2000-1    New Directions – The Art of the Feltmaker, (International Feltmakers) Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal ,  Orleans House Art Gallery, Twickenham,  Walsall Museum and Art Gallery,  Hall Place, Bexley,  Makers Guild, Cardiff,  Bankfield Museum, Halifax,  Morley Gallery, London,  Gosport Gallery, Beverley Art Gallery.

2000        Funky Stuff, Rufford Craft Centre, Newark

Out of the Garden *, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.

                  Soft Touch, Black Swan Guild, Frome

100% Design, Business Design Centre, London. 

1999       On and Off the Wall, Maidstone Museum Art Gallery, Edinburgh City Art Centre.

Threads, The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe.

Ware, The Crescent Arts Gallery, Scarborough

1997-8   Spin Cycle – Recycling & Reclaiming Traditions*, The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Canada

Layers of Meaning – a contemporary approach to the rag rug * Woodhorn Colliery Museum, Ashington, Bradford Industrial Museum, Collins Art Gallery, Glasgow, and Cleveland Craft Centre, Middlesborough.

1996       New Designers, Business Design Centre,

                  London.

1995       Art of the Stitch*, Commonwealth Institute, London

 and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Charles Henry Foyle Trust Award for Stitched Textiles*, Redditch Needle Museum

 

*catalogues available

 

LECTURES AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

2012 ‘? = people + stuff + planet’ presentation to University of Central Lancashire.

2010 ‘Conversations with Strangers’ presentation about practice at Royal British Society of Sculptors, London

2009 ‘Conversations with Strangers’ presentation about ‘Excess’ Collection to public at Collins Gallery, Glasgow

2009 ‘So you don’t love me anymore’ presentation about practice University of Central Lancashire

2008 ‘Hydration’ project presentation at Creative Futures Cumbria, Rhegd, Penrith

2007 ‘No limits’ public presentation about practice at Royal British Society of Sculptors, London

2007 ‘No limits’ public presentation about practice, Customs House, South Shields

2007 ‘No Limits’ presentation about own practice to at University of Central Lancashire

2006 Lecture about practice at ‘Green’ Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

2006 Presentation with head teacher for LEA Arts and Minds Conference, Windermere

2006 Presentation about practice at University of Central Lancashire

2005 Presentation about own practice at University of Wales Cardiff Institute

2003 Series of public lectures about ‘Personal Baggage’ project – touring Cumbria

2002 ‘On the Edge’ public slide lecture for Durham Guild of Spinners and Weavers, Durham

2002 Seminar presentation for The Sponsors Club for Arts and Business Seminar, ‘What the Hell Do We Want An Artist Here For?’ – theme ‘Creative Engagement with Industry’ at Northern Arts, Central Square, Newcastle.

2002 Public lecture about practice for Cumbria Chamber of Commerce and Trade Startright Seminar, Keswick

2002 Case study presentation for Northern Cultural Skills Partnership Conference, Rhegd, Penrith.

2001 ‘Wasted’ public lecture for Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle.