At the centre of my work is an enquiry into the way we experience time and place and the way we make our mark and leave traces. My work is usually site responsive; ideas are triggered through multi sensory aspects or through points of entry within research, found objects and narratives. I work across disciplines to respond both site specifically or create responses to, the situation of a space or place
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS.
2016 25th March – 11th June Instruments of Industry Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale
2014 The Event of The Thread Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
2012 Standing at the Gates, Ackworth School, West Yorkshire
2011 The naming of Place Ackworth School, West Yorkshire
2011 Marking time, Weaving Place Brass Gallery, Leeds
2010 Mapping Movement The Bowery, Leeds
RESIDENCIES.
2016 March – June 2016 Print residency at Neo:artists, Bolton
2015/16 Touchstone Museum and Gallery archive, New Expressions3
2014 -TO-AND-FRO- A two week collaborative residency, Rogue Project Space, Manchester
2013/14 AA2A Manchester School of Art, 1 year residency
2013 La Escocesa Studios, Barcelona – 1 month residency
2012 Armley Mills, 1 month collaborative residency – Gerry Turvey,Daliah Touré,June Gersten Roberts
2008-11 Ackworth School West Yorkshire (2008-2011) – 3 year residency
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS.
2016 Women Artists from 1861 -2015 Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale
2015 For Posterity launchpad exhibition – Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2015 People and Process: A history of Salts Mill (If Walls Could talk, The last Yarn)
2015 Film Screening of The Last Yarn, St. Asaph Catherdral, Wales. [ As part of Angela Davies Residency]
2014 GodsbridgeX The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
2013 Anual 2013 La Escocesa, Barcelona
2013 The Contemporary Art Society North, PS Mirabel, Manchester
2013 Neo:Graduates Neo:22 Bolton
2013 Cloth & Memory {2} Salts Mill, Saltaire
2013 Castlefield [email protected] The Manchester Contemporary
2013 If not here, where Didsbury Parsonage, Manchester
2013 TESTBED Lionel Dobie Project, Manchester
2013 Hand-made Futures Contact Theatre/Blank Media Collective, Manchester
2013 Through neo:gallery22, Bolton
2013 The Frost Art Museum Drawing Project The Frost Museum, Miami
2012 Manchester Artists’ Book Fair with Hot bed Press, Holden Gallery, Manchester
2012 MA Show, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University
2012 Journeys Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, Lancashire
2011 CUBE Open 2011 The CUBE Gallery, Manchester
2011 Workhouse Hive Gallery, Manchester
2011 Cartograph The Brass Gallery, Leeds
2010 Open Drawing Exhibition One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden
2009 Drawn In Sidcot Arts Centre, Somerset
2006 RSVP Deptford Arts Network, The Old Seager Distillery, Deptford
AWARDS/GRANTS.
2014 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England (The Event of the Thread)
2014 New Opportunities Award – Selected by New Expressions 3 and Visual Arts South West
2013 Neo:Graduates – commendation award
2013 RULE OF 3, Islington Mill, Salford – 3 week residency
2012 The Textile Society Award – Postgraduate winner
2010 AHRC Postgraduate Funding, Manchester School of Art
2005 Texprint finalist
2005 Mantero prize for innovative textiles
COLLECTIONS.
Touchstones Art Gallery, Salts Mill, Winchester Special Collection, Oxford Brooks Collections, MMU Special Collections, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, GSA Special Collections.
PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES / PRESS.
2016 Featured in Embroidery Magazine, March/April 2016. Article by June Hill
2015 Drawing Paper 8, June 2015
2015 The Event of The Thread – Limited edition book published by Mid Pennine Arts
2015 Axisweb ‘Spotlight’ feature – The Event of the Thread
2015 Some thoughts on multiple lifeworlds: identity, culture & politics – Dr Iain Biggs
2014 Creative Tourist – The Event of The Thread – Sheila McGregor Axisweb Selects
2014 Revolution I: Industrialisation, Artist as Archeologist. Annie Carpenter, Owl Projects
2014 TEXT Journal, Volume 41
2014 Jan/Feb Embroidery Magazine – Cloth and Memory {2}
2013 Cloth & Memory {2} Exhibition Catalogue, eds. Lesley Miller
2013 The Quilter Journal 137 – Winter 2013. Page 2. Cloth and Memory {2}
EDUCATION.
2012 MA Manchester School of Art (Distinction)
2005 BA (Hons) Winchester School of Art (First)
2004 Tokyo Zokei University, Japan – visiting student
