Category: Exhibitions

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Growing Under One Sky

I’m please to share that ‘Summer ’76‘ has been selected for the ArtCan ‘Growing Under One Sky’ exhibition, part of the “Creative Climate Fest” at Scolton Manor, Bethlehem, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA62 5QL from July 5 – August 31, 2025.

Summer '76 - part of the ArtCan 'Growing Under One Sky exhibition
Summer ’76 – part of the ArtCan ‘Growing Under One Sky exhibition

“We strive to grow, judging progress, ambition and success by the increase of productivity and output. However, we have reached a stage where year on year economic growth as it stands, is beginning to suffocate us under unmanageable quantities of waste and residue. Our obsession with growth has also given us climate change, and an increase in weather anomalies…..We need to grow better habits and reconnect with our own importance. Every choice we make locally, has an impact globally. We cannot exist as individuals, as everything we do inextricably links us to people and the environment anywhere in the world. Water we pollute here, will affect the health of fish that migrate to other parts of the world. How we shop influences livelihoods and people we will never even meet…..Growing Under One Sky asks artists to examine what the act of growing means within this context. ” ~ ArtCan curators.

Thank you to the following curators for selecting my work for exhibition.

“ArtCan Green Team – Lawrence Mathias, Catherine Fenton, Hannah Pratt, Cat Coulter, Elly Platt, curating Growing Under One Sky is part of our Green Team commitment to bring opportunities to like minded artists, offering a platform to express their voices regarding environmental issues and solutions.” ~ ArtCan.

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Love is RED

Lancashire Courting Cake is part of the One Red Thread 2025 ‘Love is RED’ exhibition in Australia curated by Textile Fest. 

Close up of the hand embroidered Lancashire Courting Cake - part of the Love is RED exhibition
Hand embroidery detail – Lancashire Courting Cake

This touring exhibition will be visiting Sidney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

The exhibition’s first stop is at the Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair, ICC Sydney Darling Harbour, Australia, June 26 – 29, 2025.

Update September 2025:

The next stop of the tour takes place at the Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, Victoria, Australia.
September 3 to 6, 2025

Update October 2025:

The next stop on the tour will be at the Brisbane Craft & Quilt Fair at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre, Merivale St, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. October 15 to 18, 2025

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Outside In National Exhibition

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.

Time for Tea part of the Outside In National Exhibition
Time for Tea part of the Outside In National Exhibition

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.