Artist's Statement

Over the past few years my own work has principally been photographic. It has aimed to consider visually and theoretically the enigmatic space between inside and outside, particularly in relation to the 'edge-ness' of women's experience, and I have been particularly interested in Derrida's work on the nature and place of the frame. I am also interested in the metaphoric uses and meanings of objects in relation to the building of narrative and the creation of identity.

In 2002 I had a major stroke. For a while I could not work. However, in the past year I have begun to explore visually this experience which has so profoundly affected my life. However, I realise it is still about the uncertain space between inside and outside.

March 2008

Education

1964

BA (Econ) Hons in Social Administration, Manchester University

1975

PGCE, University of Reading (Distinction)

1992

Diploma in Stitched Textiles, Roehampton Institute

1996

BA (Hons) Visual Art, First Class, Winchester School of Art

2000

MA Visual Culture, Bath Spa University College

Exhibitions include

1992

Solo exhibition at The Embroiderers' Guild, Hampton Court Palace

1996

'Drawing and Beyond', Angelus Gallery, Winchester

1996

'Drawing On', Alternative Arts, Chiltern Street, London

1997

'Re-marks' Islington Arts Factory, London

1997

'Grey Matters', Diorama Arts Centre, London

1998

'Remarks on the City', Minstrels, Winchester and at Southern Arts

1999

'Remarks at the Hat Fair', Winchester city centre

2000

'Remarks on the Landscape', The Mayor's Fringe, Newbury

2000

'Dance Movement 1', New Greenham Arts and the Corn Exchange, Newbury.

2001

Interchanges/Making Narratives, Winchester Station subway and stations served by SW Trains

2002

'Cornucopia', Corn Exchange, Newbury

2003

'Off our Trolley, The Mayor's Fringe, Newbury

2007

'Grey Matters', Newbury

Textile works in the Collection of the Embroiderers' Guild and in collections in the UK and USA

Associated activities

1989

Co-ordinator for making of a hanging to celebrate the 300^th anniversary of Windsor Guildhall

1996-2000

Founding chairman of remarks, a group of visual artists.

1999-2000

Planning, design, and co-ordination of a large Millennium textile project at Christ Church, Woodley, Reading.

2001 to date

Treasurer of remarks.

2001-date

Co-ordinator Hands On Workshops for Open Studios, West Berkshire and North Hampshire

2002-3

Planning, design and encouraging of large textile project at Newbury United Reformed Church

Teaching

1975-86

Teaching in primary school.

1985-2000

Teaching further education classes at East Berkshire College and Bracknell and Wokingham College, including embroidery/textiles and special needs. Also a number of practical courses for the Embroiderers' Guild and other organisations

Writing

2000

MA Dissertation - 'Unpicking Stitches': identity, narratives, embroidering from kits.

2001

'Stitching Together - the Christ Church Textile', The World of Embroidery Vol 52 No 3, 148-149