Sue Stone is current chair and exhibiting member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists and Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. She studied Fashion at St Martins School of Art and Embroidery at Goldsmiths College.
Sue Stone is current chair and exhibiting member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists and Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. She studied Fashion at St Martins School of Art and Embroidery at Goldsmiths College.
Sue makes work about what she has experienced and how it has affected her, her relationships, her life observations and her environment. Her recent work is mainly figurative, it’s personal, but not sentimental, and sometimes tackles serious issues. She uses images from the family album as a device to tell her tales. These images from the past connect with those from the present to create a partial narrative. Built in layers, the mixed media compositions connect people, place and time and contrast the slow building of an image in hand stitch with the spontaneity of free machine stitch and paint.
Her fervent use of hand and machine stitch as a means of mark making and all its facets : line, colour, texture, tone is underpinned by a great belief in drawing - as a thought process, as a means of solving problems, and as a means of expression in its own right.
Qualifications and training
1975 - 1st class (hons) B A Textiles/Embroidery, Goldsmith's College, London
Solo exhibitions
2018 - Do You Remember Me? - 24 March to 15 July - Muriel Barker Gallery, Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, N E Lincs
2017 - Displaced - Owen James Gallery, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
2016 - Do You Remember Me? - Knitting & Stitching Shows invited gallery artist London, Dublin & Harrogate
2016 - People • Place • Time, Howden Park Centre, Scotland
2013 - Stuff and Nonsense, Gate Gallery, 12, Brighowgate, Grimsby, N E Lincs
2010 - Life on the Coast, Fishing Heritage Centre and Touring, Grimsby N E Lincs
2009 - Life on the Coast, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2009 - Woman with a Fish, Gate Gallery, 12, Brighowgate, Grimsby
Group exhibitions
2017 2 November - 2 January 2018 - People -what are they like? And how do we see them? Deda, Derby
2017 - 5th September to 15th October - What is Stitch? - The Sunbury Embroidery Gallery, Thames Street, Sunbury-On-Thames - Selected work from the Diana Springall collection
2017 - Trait Portrait - touring throughout France during 2017
2017 August 10 - 13 - Through Our Hands - A Portrait, Festival of Quilts, NEC & touring
2017 - July 31 to September 30 - Unknown People - Discovery Centre, Cleethorpes
2017 - Making Space tour - 62 Group- Knitting & Stitching shows Spring & Edinburgh
2017 - February - Unknown People - Cleethorpes, N E Lincs, UK
2017 January - The Thread Unraveled - Group Exhibition, VM Art gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2016 June -Sept - Making Space - 62 Group- Silk Museum, Macclesfield, UK
2016 June/July - Intoxicating Textiles - Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Mass, USA
2015 Illustrative and Stitched Drawings - Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
2015 New Textiles Transformed - Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge , Massachusetts, USA
2015 Face The World, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln, UK
2015 - Shifting Images, Muriel Barker Gallery, Grimsby,
2015 Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham, UK
2015 62 Group • NOW! - Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2015 Designer Crafts at the Mall - Society of Designer Craftsmen
2014 - Ebb & Flow - 62 Group of textile Artists, Grimsby Minster & Fishing Heritage Centre
2014 - Contextile, Guimaeres, Portugal, Scythia 10, Kherson, Ukraine
2014 - Summer exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2014 Beside the Sea, Bilston Craft gallery, Wolverhampton
2013 Pinpoint 13, One Church St Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks, UK
2013 - 9th Minitextiles Trienniel, Museum of Gdynia, Poland
2013 - Designer Crafts, Mall Galleries, London
2013 - Small Talk (62 Group), Constance Howard Gallery, London SE14 6NW
2012 - 62@50, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5LW 2012 - 62@50, Holden Gallery, Manchester M15 6BR
2012 - Gate Group at Richmond Station, Richmond Station Gallery, Richmond, North Yorkshire
2012 - Interventions, Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester
2012 - Package Tour - 62 Group, Knitting & Stitching Show 2012, Alexandra Palace, RDS, Dublin, Harrogate Exhibition Centre
2011 - At a Tangent, Gallery Oldham, Oldham OL1 1AL
2011 - Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Ryjswijk Museum, Netherlands
2010 - Afghanistan Inspiration, various, EU tour
2010 - Bending more Lines - 62 Group, Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2010 - Bending more Lines -62 Group, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands 2010 - The Dartboard for Witches, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2008 - Art of the Stitch - International Open Exhibition, Birmingham Art Gallery, Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Knitting & Stitching shows, London & Harrogate , UK and Touring Europe
Curated projects
2011 - 7 Strands, Gate Gallery and Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, N E Lincolnshire
2010 - Life on the Coast, Fishing Heritage Centre and Cleethorpes Discovery Centre, Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Artist talks 2017
Northampton EG 4 March - Ispiration for Stitch
Northern Ireland EG - 19 May - Woman with a Fish
Workshops 2017
6 July - Selvedge Studio - Illustrative & Hand Stitch Portraits
Workshops 2018
26 May - 2 June - Studio Preniac - France - Illustrative Stitch - A Personal Approach
Competitions, prizes and awards
2015 - Textile Society - Professional Development Bursary
2015 - Elected Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
2013 - Go exhibition joint 2nd prize winner, Abbey Walk Gallery/Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby
2011 - 7 Strands - Arts Council award, Grimsby Minster, Gate Gallery, Grimsby, N E Lincolnshire
2009 - Arts Council Award - Life on the Coast, Touring Exhibition, Chipping Campen, Glos, Grimsby (2venues) and Cleethorpes, N E Lincs
Publications
2017 - Embroidery Magazine featured artist & front cover image
2016 - Contemporary Stitch 1 - a Textileartist.org ebook, Embroidery Magazine Jan/Feb
2015 - Through Our Hands Portfolio Book, Homespun magazine, Australia, July, Through our Hands magazine May
2014 - Embroidery magazine - Ebb & Flow preview.
2013 - Fiber Arts Now magazine winter edition
2013 - From Sketch to Stitch • Stitch magazine no 83
2012 - Radical Thread, edited by Lesley Millar
2012 - Textiles: The Art of Mankind :Author Mary Schoeser : Published by Thames & Hudson
2010 - Machine Stitch Perspectives, Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating
