I’m please to share that ‘Time for Tea‘ is part of ‘Shelter‘, the Outside In National Exhibition. This travelling exhibition starts at The New Art Gallery Walsall, 28 June – 19 October 2025, before travelling to Christie’s London, 12 – 22 January 2026.

There were over 600 submissions received from artists across the UK and 80 artworks were chosen for the physical exhibition.

Although ‘Time for Tea’ wasn’t selected for the physical exhibition, all submitted artworks – including Time for Tea – will be displayed on screens at The New Art Gallery Walsall and Christie’s London. Work will also appear on the Outside In website.

This year, the selection panel included multidisciplinary artist, educator, and writer Exodus Crooks, Outside In artists Pamila Schilderman and George Parker-Conway, as well as Deborah Robinson (Head of Exhibitions) and Zoë Lippett (Exhibitions and Artists’ Projects Curator) from The New Art Gallery Walsall.

This hand embroidered piece, was created to journal a collection of warm memories, is inspired by domestic life around the open fire at my Grandparents’ home in Stacksteads, Lancashire. Winter days involved walks out in all weathers. Wrapped up tightly in duffle coats and boots, we’d wander up the lane, over the brook and ramble over the rugged moorland until it was teatime and brew time.

The piece is about the importance of family, the comfort of home and how something as simple as the ritual of afternoon tea around a fire can bring contentment.

Vintage Sylko thread. Cotton cloth from an old pillowcase that once belonged to my great grandmother. Panel measures 15 x 20 cm.