Artist's Statement

In 2002 I had a major stroke. I was left seriously impaired physically and unable to speak. For a while, even though I was completely lucid in my head and the words were all there, I could not retrieve them enough to speak them - or understand words on a page. I was only able to communicate by gestures... 'Yes' ...'No...' and was easily distracted by extraneous noises and conversations. It was immensely lonely and frustrating.

Against expectations, I have made a very good recovery, for which I am profoundly grateful, but for several years I couldn't do any work as an artist. Previously my work had been about the enigmatic space between inside and outside, informed by Derrida's writing on The Frame. Now I have begun to explore visually this experience which has so profoundly affected my life, I find that somehow the work is still about inside and outside, though viewed through a different prism.

I am currently focussing mostly on distortion of vision and loss of language but I expect the scope to widen as the work progresses.

Artist's website

An Experience of Stroke – www.anne-jones.co.uk

Forthcoming exhibitions

2 - 31 May 2009

'Insight', New Greenham Arts, Newbury

5 May - 26 June 2009

'A Quiet Knowledge', Arlington Arts, Snelsmore Common, Newbury

23/24/25 and 29/30/31 May 2009

studio open (See www.open-studios.org.uk for details)

Exhibitions include:

2008

'Rebirth – hope of new life', All Saints church, Marlow, Bucks

2008

'Vista', Corn Exchange, Newbury

2007

'Grey Matters', Newbury

2003

'Cornucopia', Corn Exchange, Newbury

2003

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

2001

'Dance Movement 2', Corn Exchange, Newbury

2001

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

2000

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

2000

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

1999

'Remarks at the Hat Fair', Winchester city centre

1998

'Remarks on the City', Southern Arts, Winchester

1998

'Remarks on the City', Minstrels, Winchester

1997

'Grey Matters', Diorama Arts Centre, London

1997

'Re-marks' Islington Arts Factory, London

1996

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

1996

'Drawing and Beyond', Angelus Gallery, Winchester

1992

Solo exhibition at The Embroiderers' Guild, Hampton Court Palace

Education

2000

MA Visual Culture, Bath Spa University College

1996

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

1992

Diploma in Stitched Textiles, Roehampton Institute

1975

PGCE, University of Reading (Distinction)

1965

Diploma in Applied Social Studies, University of Leicester

1964

BA (Econ) Hons in Social Administration, Manchester University

Associated activities

2002-3

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

2001-date

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

2001 to date

Treasurer 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.

1996-2000

Founding chairman of remarks

1989

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

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

Teaching

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

1975-86

Teaching in primary school.

Writing

2001

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

2000

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