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Berlin

I recently went to Berlin for a few days. Here's some photos I took at the Berlin Zoo.

7 Women Artists - Opening

I currently have some work showing at Chesterfield College along with 6 other female artists/designers. We are having an opening on Monday 18th March 6-8pm. I will be there and hopefully some other people will be there too!

Or you can see the exhibition between 9am-5pm weekdays (open till 8.30pm Mondays and Thursdays). 

The Dome Balcony, North Block 3, Chesterfield College, S41 7NG.

Alongside 'Lottery Words', this is the first time I have shown my ongoing project 'Waiting', a collection of every waiter order pad I have ever used whilst working as a waitress.

Seven Women Artists

This week I went back to Chesterfield College to hang work for this exhibition! Open from the 8th-26th March, featuring work from many lovely lady artists and designers. Photos to follow shortly.

waiting

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'Restructured' now open

Restructured is currently showing at St. Georges Church, Bloomsbury, London. Curated by Tania Moore and featuring work by;

Paul Magree - Planet elsewhere: 7 days

Janne Malmros - Game

Lauren Steeper - Fixed eggs

Kentaro Yamada - Everything comes in waves

Kite & Laslett - Echelon

The exhibition is part of The Bloomsbury Festival and is open 12am-5pm everyday until the 25th of October.

Talks

On Monday I did a couple of talks about my work for foundation art students at my old college in Chesterfield. It was lovely to be back and see everyone as well as getting some positive feedback!

Hand Stitch - Perspectives

Some of my work features in a new book called 'Hand stitch - Perspectives' by Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating. It's released tomorrow and to celebrate its launch there is an accompanying exhibition which also includes some of my work. 

The exhibition tours with the Knitting and Stitching Show;

-11th to 14th October - Alexandra Palace, London
-1st to 4th November - RDS, Dublin
-22nd to 25th November - HIC, Harrogate

> Hand stitch - Perspectives <

Restructured

Lately I've been fixing even more broken eggs for an exhibition in London called 'Restructured'. The exhibition is part of the Bloomsbury Festival and will preview on Friday 19th October, running until 25th October.

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Page 38, Observer's book of sewing, ordered alphabetically

5.8 x 4.1 Exhibition

I recently donated a piece of work for the "5.8 x 4.1" exhibition, organised by the 3rd year Embroidery students at MMU. All work is for sale anonymously by silent auction to help fundraising for their degree show.

The show runs till the 8th of December at Holden Gallery Cafe in The Grosvenor Building, MMU. You can see all the entries by following the link bellow.

> 5.8 x 4.1 <

New website

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I have just published my new website to accompany this blog, click the link above and have a look!

Word Play at S.I.T.

I went down to Stroud last week to hang my work in the Museum in the Park 'Word Play' exhibition as part of the Stroud International Textile Festival. The festival and exhibition is on till the 22nd of May!

Click here for website and details.

Stroud International Textile Festival

Looking to the Future
30 April – 22 May 2011

I will be exhibiting some of my work in the exhibition 'WordPlay' at the Stroud International Textile Festival.

To find more information click here for the festival website; STROUD INTERNATIONAL TEXTILES 2011

35, 24, 43, 33, 26, 44

17, 48, 2, 39, 42, 36

Instructions

47, 16, 37, 49, 1, 4, (27)