Events

'FROM EDGE TO EDGE' - Nuneaton City Art Gallery & Museum.

From May 24^th to July 12^th, Nuneaton City Art Gallery will be showing tapestries by the Midlands Region of the British Tapestry Group. The aim of this exhibition is to celebrate the unique narrative that tapestry provides, ‘telling’ the region’s stories by means of texture, colour and woven thread.

‘From Edge to Edge’ is an interactive exhibition, including visitor participation in a ‘Have-a-Go’ weave, weaver-in-residence Tuesdays [I'll be in residence on Tuesday 10th June] and a Weaving Saturday when all the artists will be available to talk about tapestry and their work. 

The weavers involved are Lindsey Marshall, Maralyn Hepworth, Jane Freear-Wyld, Pauline Fisk, Victoria Green and Elizabeth Leaper.   Elizabeth is a newcomer to tapestry.  Victoria graduated in Textile Crafts in 2005 and now runs workshops as well as weaving tapestries.  Pauline Fisk wove her first tapestry back in the 1970s and has been weaving and exhibiting ever since.  She is also an author. Jane Freear-Wyld has had a long and varied career exhibiting widely in the UK and abroad.  She too runs workshops.  Maralyn Hepworth graduated from West Dean and has produced tapestries for the 550^th anniversary of the Shrewsbury Drapers’ Company, the Shropshire Wildlife Trust and the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings.  Lindsey Marshall has also exhibited internationally.  Her tapestries are mainly formed from lettering and abstract typographic shapes, drawing on her experience in visual communications as well as textiles.    

I'll be exhibiting seven tapestries in this exhibition. I'll also be giving a lunchtime talk on my work and my experiences as a tapestry weaver at 1.00pm in the gallery on Friday 30th May.

'TAPESTRY MISCHIEF' - Gracefields Arts Centre, Dumfries.     

Two Burleigh Map of Tudor Shrewsbury tapestries were chosen for this juried British Tapestry Group exhibition, and shown between 12th January and 23rd February 2013.

'SHROPSHIRE YARNS', The Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury, September-October 2012

A three-woman exhibition with tapestry weavers Lindsay Marshall and Maralyn Hepworth. As an author as well as a weaver, I'm fascinated by the stories that maps tell.  Tapestry is one of the oldest forms of woven textile, and it’s only fitting that in Shrewsbury - once built around the woollen trade - the three of us should be found celebrating the art of tapestry together.

The Shropshire Yarns website can be found on www.shropshireyarns.weebly.com, and the Shropshire Yarns Facebook page at  http://www.facebook.com/groups/353674724674152/.