| Studied |
| 1985 |
Manchester Metropolitan University. MA Textiles |
|
1981-84 |
Manchester Metropolitan University. BA
Hons. (First Class) |
| Present teaching status |
| Senior Lecturer, Dept of Fine Art,
Chester College of Higher Education. BA (Hons) fine Art and
Combined Studies. Joint Co-ordinator MA Fine Art |
| Recent solo exhibitions |
| 1999 |
Southern Arts Touring Exhibition,
Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1997 |
Touring Exhibition Banbury
– Basingstoke, Winchester, England |
| Recent group exhibitions |
2002 |
Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002
– Textiles. Crafts Council Gallery London and touring |
| 2001 |
10th Internationsl
Triennial of Tapestry – Lodz, Poland
Dovetail – City Arts Centre, Edinburgh,
Scotland |
| 2000 |
The Contemplative Stitch
– Kansas City Art Institute, U.S.A |
| 1999 |
6th International Textile
Competition 99 – Museum of Kyoto, Japan (Un)
Limited – Diversity and Change in International
Contemporary Craft’s. Crafts Council Gallery, London,
England Textures of Memory – the
Poetics of Cloth, Angel Row Nottingham, Pitshanger Manor London,
and touring. |
| 1998 |
Knot as They Seam
– Puns and permutations in Fibre Arts. Maryland Art Place,
Baltimore, U.S.A. Contemporary Embroidery
– An International Perspective, The Arts
Centre at Dockland, Bermuda Joint exhibition
– MAC, Birmingham, England |
| 1997 |
Flexible 2 Pan European
Art – Nederland Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Holand.
Galeria Awangarda – Wroclaw, Poland
Whitworth Art Gallery – Manchester, England.
Art Textiles – Bury St. Edmunds
Gallery, England Leinen – Galerie
Jandwerk, Munich, Germany |
| Awards |
| 2002 |
Shortlisted Jerwood Applied
Arts Prize 2002 – Textiles |
| 2000 |
North West Arts Individual
Development Award – British Counci |