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
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
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.
A new exhibition at the House of Smalls called ‘The Ascent of Man’ prompted me to create a new piece of work called ‘Stand Your Ground’ for the Dollhouse gallery.
The exhibition takes place at The House of Smalls, 103 Henderson Row, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5BB from the 23rd May – 21st June 2025.
“Oppression, repression and suppression as we lose our rights, our choices, our spaces, this is a call for art from Women who have something to say, to shout, to scream.” ~ The House of Smalls.
Artists taking part on the Dollhouse exhibition
Stand Your Ground
The exhibition theme made me think of the women in my own family and the good advice I’ve received from them over the years. This is one little nugget – good advice from the strong women in my life.
When it comes to domineering men – “Stand your ground and give as good as you get”.
Stand Your Ground
Stand Your Ground – detail
Size 11.5 x 11.5cm. Hand embroidered with vintage Sylko thread.
This piece forms part of a series of small works created for the House of Smalls.
Update June 2025:
Thank you to Amy at the The House of Smalls for the following Dollhouse exhibition images.
