For me, clothing is an important starting point to make art, usually cast-off denims. I ‘recycle’ the material, or work directly onto the garment, using dyes, bleach, machine stitching and quilting techniques.

My method explores random and experimental processes, but ultimately I orchestrate the complexity of colours and textures. I use applied stencilled text to add clichés and metaphors with multilevel messages drawn from both universal and personal experiences.

My professional work with museum collections both informs and challenges my own artwork in a major way. I would describe myself as an “artist-curator”.


FUIT - He/She Was 2003



Secrets of Success 1996


Lavenders Blue 1997


Anxiety Quilt 1998


ART TRAINING

1965-67 Foundation Waltham Forest College.
1967- 71 BA (Hons) Fine Art (Art History)Newcastle University.
1971- 72 Post Graduate Diploma in Art Gallery & Museum Studies Specialism: Decorative Arts/Costume & Textiles
1974 Museums Association Diploma.
1993 CGLI Further & Adult Education Teachers Certificate.

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998-2000 Art Full Boxes (New Fibre Art Tour)
2001 Felt, Fibre & Fabric, Castle Park Arts Centre, Cheshire
2002 The Art of Textile, Conquest Hospital, Hastings
2003 Drawn Together (Virus), Kent Music School, Maidstone
2003 Imago (Virus), Ramsgate Library Gallery
2003 Imago (Virus), Peter Blake Gallery, Dartford Library
2004 VIRart, Conquest Hospital & Eastbourne Hospital
2004 Midsummer MADness, Bentlif Art Gallery, Maidstone
2004-05 VIR-Art 1, Maidstone Library Gallery
2005 Material Values, Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery


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