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Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
I am a textile artist living on the Suffolk Essex border. I am a member of the Out of the Fold Textile Group and East Anglian Stitched Textiles (EAST) I am the Principal Tutor for Creative Stitch which offers courses in Creative Patchwork and Quilting and Creative Stitch Textiles. I teach each year at the Knitting & Stitching Shows and Festival of Quilts. I also offer workshops and talks to groups throughout the UK in person and via zoom. I am also a member of the QGBI and the specialist Contemporary Quilt Group and STARS (formerly Suffolk West Embroiderers Guild)

Friday, 10 June 2022

Text and Context Gallery at Festival of Quilts

 Well I was feeling a bit pathetic at another year going by without me entering anything into the Festival of Quilts 2022 However it was a lovely surprise to open the latest edition of The Quilter Magazine to see that a piece of my work will be included in the Quilters' Guild gallery 'Text and Context'



This gallery is jointly curated by the collection curator Heather Audin and a guest curator Judy Fairless from the Contemporary Quilt
https://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/the-quilters-guild/

The pieces are all selected from the QG museum permanent collection and feature the written word. 

My piece "Forty years of progress - Thatcher to May" was made for the 2019 Spotlight Gallery celebrating 40 years of the guild. 

I was honoured to represent my region (Suffolk and Essex) and to hang alongside quilts made by a member of every region and specialist group of the guild.

These were all taken into the museum as the  'Forties Collection'


The 'Text and Context' exhibition will be on stand TG5 at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC Birmingham from 18th - 21st August 2022

I will also have my own small stand in the Quilting in Action zone on QIA10

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