About me
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I graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in Tapestry in 1991 and Sunderland University with a Masters in Ceramics in 2021. I work in Darlington at The Weaving Rooms, where I have a studio and teach tapestry alongside weaver and spinner Becky Sunter.
Groups - British Tapestry Group and Prism Textiles. |
Exhibitions
2025
Coming up
BTG 20th Anniversary Exhibition - Picking up the Threads
Gracefield Arts -Dumfries, Dovecot Studios -Edinburgh, Ocean Studios -Plymouth, Morley Gallery -London.
BTG Northern - Tapestry of the North- Our Textile Heritage
Farfield Mill -Sedburgh, Kirkleatham Museum -Redcar, Bankfield Museum - Halifax
Current
Tapestry Touring International - Verve
UK and New Zealand - currently at Farfield Mill Sedburgh (till 13 July 25)
Past
Heallreaf 5 - Weston Park Shropshire, Morley Gallery London, Farfield Mill Sedburgh
Prism Textiles - Any Other Business -The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London
2024
Prism Textiles - Edgelands - The Art Pavilion, Mile End , London
Heallreaf 4- Weston Park Shropshire, Morley Gallery London, Farfield Mill Sedburgh
2023
The Weaving Rooms - Flight- Preston Park Museum, Stockton on Tees
Tapestry Touring International- The Natural World - The Guildhall - Much Wenlock, Kirkleatham Museum -Redcar, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh.
2022
Solo - Coastal Matters - Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar
Artapestry 6 - Art Centre Silkeborg Bad -Denmark, Museum of Central Finland, Jyvaskyla -Finland, Kulturcentrum Ronnerby - Sweden.
Heallreaf 4 - Farfield Mill Sedburgh, Oxmarket Contemporary - Chichester, RBSA, Birmingham
2021
Masters Degree Show, Showcase, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Fabric of the North, British Tapestry Group, Kirkleatham Redcar.
Threads in Sheds, British Tapestry Group, Whitchurch Silk Mill - Hampshire
Tapestry Touring International, New Directions - Online.
2020
Tapestry Touring International, Interface - Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, The Guildhall -MuchWenlock, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia -Canada, Crafts Council of British Columbia, Vancouver- Canada.
2019
Solo, Intertidal, Saltburn Studios -North Yorkshire
Heallreaf 3 Surface Gallery -Nottingham, Espacio Gallery-London.
Exhibitions
2025
Coming up
BTG 20th Anniversary Exhibition - Picking up the Threads
Gracefield Arts -Dumfries, Dovecot Studios -Edinburgh, Ocean Studios -Plymouth, Morley Gallery -London.
BTG Northern - Tapestry of the North- Our Textile Heritage
Farfield Mill -Sedburgh, Kirkleatham Museum -Redcar, Bankfield Museum - Halifax
Current
Tapestry Touring International - Verve
UK and New Zealand - currently at Farfield Mill Sedburgh (till 13 July 25)
Past
Heallreaf 5 - Weston Park Shropshire, Morley Gallery London, Farfield Mill Sedburgh
Prism Textiles - Any Other Business -The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London
2024
Prism Textiles - Edgelands - The Art Pavilion, Mile End , London
Heallreaf 4- Weston Park Shropshire, Morley Gallery London, Farfield Mill Sedburgh
2023
The Weaving Rooms - Flight- Preston Park Museum, Stockton on Tees
Tapestry Touring International- The Natural World - The Guildhall - Much Wenlock, Kirkleatham Museum -Redcar, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh.
2022
Solo - Coastal Matters - Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar
Artapestry 6 - Art Centre Silkeborg Bad -Denmark, Museum of Central Finland, Jyvaskyla -Finland, Kulturcentrum Ronnerby - Sweden.
Heallreaf 4 - Farfield Mill Sedburgh, Oxmarket Contemporary - Chichester, RBSA, Birmingham
2021
Masters Degree Show, Showcase, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Fabric of the North, British Tapestry Group, Kirkleatham Redcar.
Threads in Sheds, British Tapestry Group, Whitchurch Silk Mill - Hampshire
Tapestry Touring International, New Directions - Online.
2020
Tapestry Touring International, Interface - Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, The Guildhall -MuchWenlock, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia -Canada, Crafts Council of British Columbia, Vancouver- Canada.
2019
Solo, Intertidal, Saltburn Studios -North Yorkshire
Heallreaf 3 Surface Gallery -Nottingham, Espacio Gallery-London.
