2025/26 Shanghai International paper Biennale, China
2025 Letting in the Light :Artists Books Exhibition, Kirby Gallery, Knowsley, Liverpool2024
2024 The art Book : Amateras : Sophia, Bulgaria
Art, Science and Creativity, Book art Exhibition, Central Library, Liverpool
About water : Sock Gallery Loughborough
2022/23 Ruby Anniversary exhibition, Art through Textiles Group
2021 Papier Global 5: Degendorf : international paper art exhibition
2021 University of Tasmania, Australia, 9th April _ 6th June
2021 ‘Approach’ IAPMA congress exhibition, Japan,
2021 3rd Shanghai International paper Biennale, China
2019 The second Shanghai International Biennale of PaperArt
2018 Amateras : Sophia, Bulgaria
2018 Responsive Paper (IAPMA exhibition), Sophia, Bulgaria
2018 Papier Global 4: Degendorf : international paper art exhibition
2016/17
2016 USA : Touring – A commissioned piece included in The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection : Fowler Museum at UCLA, September 2016 travelled to Racine Art Museum (spring 2017)and the Textile Museum at George Washington University (Autumn 2017).
2016 Inspired by Paper : IAPMA : travelling to several countries in Europe Luminous Within : IAPMA Australia tour
2017 Maker Space at the University of Tasmania, Burnie, Tasmania 2017 Central Craft, Alice Springs, NT, Australia 2017 The Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2017 Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane, Australia 2018 Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Luminous Within : IAPMA America’s tour 2016 Casa da Cultura da América Latina, University of Brasilia, Brazil 2017 Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile 2017 University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, USA
2017 ‘A Feast on Paper Art’ : First Shanghai International Paper Art Exhibition, Shanghai / Guangzhou, China
2017 UK Telling in Full (Group exhibition as part of the Lancaster Words Festival) 2016 Shakespeare Now!: Exhibition of artists Books Hornby library, Liverpool
2016 : Turn The Page, Norwich
2015 Concealed, Confined, Collected, Minnesota Centre for Bookarts, US
2015 International Artists Book Prize Exhibition, Sheffield UK
Leeds Artists Book Fair BABE at Arnolfini, Bristol Turn The Page, Norwich The Baltic Artists Book Market Manchester book fair Artists Book Market at the Baltic
2014 Artists Book Exhibition, Liverpool Central Library Printing, Sheffield, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, UK Leeds Artists Book Fair Manchester Arists Book Fair
2013 The Art and Soul of Paper, Mandells Gallery, Norwic Sheffield International Artists Book Exhibition Leeds Artists Book Fair Manchester Artists Book Fair
2012 ‘RED’ two person show at the Heartbeat Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Papier Global 2, Deggendorf Museum, Germany IAPMA touring exhibition ‘Faszination Papier’ (various venues in Europe 2011 – 12) IAPMA Members show, ‘Watermarks’ conference, Cleveland Ohio, US Launch of ‘Iceland Stories’ collaborative book at Icelandic Embassy London and various other venues
2011 Solo Exhibition at The Philip Goulden Gallery, Walford Mill, Wimborne, Dorset Paper and Type: Korean Craft Museum Cheongju Leaf and Bound : Eureka College, Illinois, USA (Award : best in show) Book Project International, Marseilles, France Sheffield International Artists Book Exhibition Art in Action 2011 – Waterperry House, Oxford
2010 Place and Identity : Drumcroon Education Art Centre, Wigan, Greater Manchester Book Project International, Marseilles, France
2009-2010 : A collaborative project involving visuals, sound and poetry – beginning with a residency in Iceland in 2009, and followed by ‘Icelandic Notebooks’. an ‘Off the Shelf’ event at Access Media Lab in Sheffield and Stage@Leeds.
2009 : USA: Textures gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona :Looking Forward, European Batik
2009 : Mapping The island : One of a number of selected international artists to be sent a piece of map of Tasmania to incorporate into a mixed media Artwork : Touring exhibition
2008 Selected to take part in the Holland Paper Biennale : Netherlands
2007
Surface Design conference Solo exhibition at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center Kansas City. Selected to give a demonstration, and lead a four day workshop. Award from Arts Council (Lottery fund) towards the exhibition.
Fiberart International 2007 Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts, then touring. ‘Book of Shadows” selected
Commission to make a textile for the Lloyd T. Cotsen’s Box project
2006 – 7 ‘Batik Transitions’ From Classic To Contemporary’ : Group Touring exhibition organised by the Batik Guild of Great Britain (Heritage Lottery Funded) Various venues in UK including Gloucester Museum and Art Gallery, Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead, and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
2005 Boston, USA May 19 – june 14 :Massachusetts College of Art (Patrica Doran Gallery ) “Transient Surface” – European Abstraction an exhibition of the work of five European batik Artists (one of the special exhibitions during the World Batik conference)
Kerava: Finland August. Northern Fibre 6.(wo)man and technology: Selected to participate in an international workshop and related exhibition organised by the Finnish Textile Artists Association.
2004
Undertook a major collaborative work with a sound technician, and poet involving using moving image, sound and words – exhibited at various venues in Sheffield
2003
Germany: Gallery Smend, Koln : group exhibition/book launch Dyrenforths new book
Belgium Museum of Industrial Archaology and Textiles, Gent : ‘Art in Motion’: group exhibition
Netherlands : Silkmuseum Meliskerke, Middlesburg: Solo exhibition: Workshops were undertaken in Delft and in Zeeland.
Denmark: Surface Design/Tradition and Technology, Aarhus Kunstbygnyng :The project was spread over five days and involved exhibiting work, giving a masterclass and taking part in a symposium which explored links between old and new technology. The paper for the symposium was ‘Layers of Time’. The Masterclass combined combined digital imaging withcollage and traditional textile techniques.
2002 Germany: Hanover Handwerksform: ‘Batik of Change’ Exhibit included resist dyed layered silk books, and digital collage books.
Japan : Awarded a travel bursery from Yorkshire Arts to travel to japan and exhibit in a group exhibition in Saitama, at Prefectural museum of Modern Art .
2001/2 Germany: Berlin Galerie im parc: ‘Taktha’; Exhibition. Symposium paper: “Batik in the Digital Age” The exhibition travelled to Gallery Smend in Koln; and Central Museum of Textiles : Lodz : POLAND. The exhibition was also preceded by two promotional exhibitions in Berlin: ‘Kunst fordert Kunst’ and ‘Tarien Warna
1999 Belgium International Batik exhibition & Symposium, Ghent: Symposium paper: ‘Art Fabric into books’
1997 China : Awarded a travel bursery from Yorkshire Arts to travel to Guiyang Textile Museum, Guizou Province: International Exhibition & Symposium. Symnposium Paper : ‘Spatial Sensation and the medium of Dye’
1995 SMALL PIECES FOR EUROPE, a touring exhibition of miniatures curated by the exhibiting group “New Fibre Art” to venues in France, Austria, Spain and Ukraine.
1993 Indonesia Edwins Gallery, Jakarta : International Batik exhibition
2003/4 UK Took part in three Artists and Educators conferences. Talks centred around ‘Technology and Tradition’
2003 Denmark Aarhus : Tradition and technology conference : ‘Layers of Time’ 2001 Berlin : Batik Symposium : ‘Batik in the Digital Age’ 1999 Ghent : Batik Symposium : Art Fabric into Books’ 1997 China Guizhou : Batik Symposium ‘Spatial Sensation and the medium of Dye 1992 Batik Guild A.G.M. : Line and Colour
PARTICIPATION in EXHIBITIONS IN UK: 1990 – 2002 Selected list
2004 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield “Genius” group exhibition.
Undertook a major collaborative work with a sound technician, and poet involving using moving image, sound and words – exhibited at various venues in Sheffield
2003 : Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan : Artists “Encounters with New Technology”. including a conference for Artists and Educators
2002 : Morley Gallery, London, and Maidstone Museum: Group exhibitions with New fibre Art)
2002 : Bolsover Castle : Site Specific group exhibion with Sheffield Contemporary Artists
1998 Ruskin Craft Gallery, Sheffield : Sheffield Threads: open Textile exhibition/competition 1995 Solo exhibition: Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield 1991 Sheffield Globe Works. (Sheffield Cultural Festival : group exhibition 1991 Notts Rufford Craft Centre Group Batik Exhibition.
1990 Sheffield Graves City Art Gallery: Joint Adventures: Artists and Participants of Residencies.(Schools Loan Collection Exhibition)
Several Site specific exhibition projects have been undertaken with different Artists groups. With New fibre Art: Norton Priory ‘Fibre in the open’, an exhibition in a Medieval walled garden. With Sheffield contemporary Artists at the Bishops House Museum, Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield Botanic Gardens, Midland Railway Station and Bolsover Castle
1970 -1990 Group exhibitions have included Venues in Belfast; and Lancaster. In addition, Mid Pennine Arts Association Gallery, ART GALLERY, Doncaster; MAPPIN ART GALLERY Sheffield; THE PIECE HALL, Halifax; and MAIDSTONE MUSEUM. BRITISH CRAFT CENTRE: London; RUFFORD CRAFT CENTRE : Notts. CITY ART GALLERY, RUSKIN CRAFT GALLERY, Sheffield,; CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE: London; STYAL MILL Textile Museum: VERNON GALLERY, Preston; and GAWTHORPE HALL Textile museum, Lancs.
ARTWORKS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS, include
Work represented in public and private Collections, includes
Textile Museum, George Washington University, Washington US (A commissioned piece is in the Lloyd T. Cotsen collection, ‘Textile traces’ which has now been given to the Museum)
Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, Carmelite Chapel of St Teresa of Avila, Beacon, New York Filac : International collection of Contemporary Artists Books (Marseilles) (Book of Shadows, Seepage 2, Imperfect Rose, Iceland Notes) Neukoln Public Library – Art Office Collection; Textile collection, Kiev Art Gallery, Ukraine; Guiyang Museum, Guizhou, China. Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki, Finland Manchester MMU (Phillip Green Library, special collections) British Art Library, V&A,
Sheffield Artists Book Centre Collection
Bath Spa University Library
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
CROSS MEDIA COLLABORATIONS:
A collaborative multi media work “ Fall of Flower” took place in 2004 with sound technician Jessica Hodson and poet Liz Cashdan. This incorporated moving image, sound and words and was exhibited at various venues in Sheffield. This was followed by ‘Shadows’ (2006) a piece inspired by autograph albums kept by a stewardess on the Transatlantic liners in the 1930’s. In both works I created the image sequence and collaborated on production. ‘Herbal notebook’ 2008 exhibited at Norton Priory, Runcorn . in 2009, a residency in Iceland for the group led to ‘Iceland Stories’. In 2016, ‘Sea Speaks’ for an exhibition at Liverpool Library
VISUALS IN VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING
2024 PAPER ART 111 , ART POWER 2021/2 Catalogue, Papier Global 5 : Deggendorf Museum, Germany 2019 INTERNATIONAL PAPER ART EXHIBITION SHANGHAI 2016 The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection 2013 Textiles, the Art of Mankind Mary Schloeser 2013 IAPMA Paper Art 2 2012 Catalogue, Papier Global 2: Catalogue, Deggendorf Museum, Germany 2011 PAPER and TYPE: PRINT Chiongdu International Craft Biennale, 2010 Fascinating Batik : Rita Trefois 2009 Catalogue, Papier Global : Catalogue, Deggendorf Museum, Germany 2009 IAPMA : Paper Art 1, 2008 Pure Paper : Catalogue, Holland paper Biennale, 2008 2008 Textiles Now, Drusilla Cole 2007 Fibre Art International, 2007 2006 Surface Design Magazine : article by Patricia Malarcher 2003 Batik – Modern Concepts and Techniques; (Noel Dyrenforth) 2000 ‘Textiel Plus’ (Netherlands) Article/visuals – (Written by Else Van Baale). 1997 “The craft of handmade paper” by Jon Plowman 1997 Catalogue : Guiyang International Combined Exhibition 1996 Artists books included in “ARTBibliographies Modern” 1995 “International Textiles” (Published by Calman and King) The Art and Craft of Fabric Decoration” by Juliet Bawden 1994 “Textiles: Multi cultural Traditions” by Spyrou/Singer 1993 Visuals and Dyed paper pieces for “Real Art”; a limited edition Visual Art Publication.
ARTISTS UNIQUE BOOKS, COLLABORATIONS AND EDITIONS Unique Books :early ‘Out of Darkness’, A visual story which exists both in electronic form, and as a tactile piece in which I explored the idea of the inevitability of evolutionary change. Editions have included A time of Roses : an edition of 25 copies. A Dyeing Art : a limited edition book of 100 copies, written, to accompany a solo exhibition of the same name. An explanation in text and visuals : why use dye. Black Flame : A facsimile book.
Book Collaboratations with the poet Liz Cashdan, consist of three handmade books which combine visualS and text Blueness : edition 100 : a fold book of silk and paper construction Waterfall : 45 made Flotsam : Four made
TEACHING, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS For a number of years part time lecturer at the Sheffield College, teaching Textiles, Digital imaging and Bookarts. Over thirty years I have undertaken many demonstrations, workshops and residencies with schools,colleges, and with private groups.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Born in UK; lives and works in Sheffield.
Liverpool College of Art and Design ( Now John Moors University)
(1964-7) DIP. A.D FINE ART (1963-4) DIPLOMA IN PRE DEGREE FOUNDATION STUDIES
