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| EARLY
CAREER |
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| 1971 |
Graduated
with a BA. Hons. Fashion & Textiles (Embroidery) Birmingham
Polytechnic |
| 1971-3 |
Embroidery Designer: Bellville Sassoon, London |
| 1973-4 |
Embroidery Designer: Marie-Paule, Montreal |
| 1974-81 |
Set up business in Canada |
| 1981 |
Returned to Britain |
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MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
2008
2007
2006
2005
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Stuff: contemporary textiles
by The 62 Group, Catmose
Gallery
Leeds Art Fair
Life in Detail: solo exhibition at the Upfront Gallery, Penrith
Leeds Art Fair & Leeds Art Fair Lite
In Praise of Sheds at The Garden Station
Widening Boundaries:
62 Group exhibition at the Knitting & Stitching Shows
Christmas Present - Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Drawn Together - major solo retrospective
in the Knitting & Stitching
Show at the NEC, Alexandra Palace, RDS in Dublin, & International
Halls, Harrogate
Tissus, Toiles & Tuiles: Lotherton Hall, Leeds - solo
Tracing Threads: Hove Art Gallery - 62 Group
Christmas Present - Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Christmas Exhibition - Henshelwood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Leeds Art Fair
Encounters: Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 62
Group
Knitting and Stitching Show: London, Dublin,
Harrogate
Christmas Present: Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Henshelwood Gallery Christmas Exhibition
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| 2004 |
Secrets of the Saucy Seaside Postcard:
Huddersfield Art Gallery & touring
Illustrating the Past: solo
show, Andover Museum, Hampshire
Of Material Concern:
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
The Fifa 100: Royal Academy,
London
Christmas Exhibition,
Henshelwood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| 2003 |
Loose Threads: Rufford Crafts
Centre
Sons & Mothers: Collins
Gallery, Glasgow & touring
The Classical Present: Bury
Art Gallery & Museum, Bury, Lancashire
In Place: Harley
Gallery, Welbeck - 62 Group |
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| 2002 |
Red: Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery & touring
- 62 group
Cat & Mouse: From Canada
to Computers; Paddy Killer, a Retrospective, The
Beacon Museum & Art Gallery, Whitehaven, Cumbria
In Context: V&A,
London - 62 Group
In Retrospect: Alexandra
Palace, London; RDS, Dublin; International Halls,
Harrogate 62 Group
Christmas Present: Shipley
Art Gallery, Gateshead
International Textile Open: Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast |
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| 2001 |
Gallery Artists: Corrymella
Scott Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
62 Group at Cajobah Gallery, Birkenhead
The Art of the Stitch: Mall Galleries, London,
and Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
A Collective Response: Bankfield Museum,
Halifax - 62 Group
A Work of Art in Itself: Bury
Art Gallery & Museum
The Point of the Needle: Dorset
County Museum |
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| 2000 |
Corrymella Scott Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Out of the Garden: Shipley
Art Gallery, Gateshead - 62 Group
arttextiles 2: Bury St
Edmunds Art Gallery & touring
Corrymella Scott Gallery at Phillips, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| 1999 |
On and off the Wall: Maidstone
Art Gallery & City Arts Centre, Edinburgh- 62 Group
The Art of the Stitch: Barbican,
London, & Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Gardens and Flowers in Embroidery: Tokyo,
Japan
The Plate Show: Collins
Gallery, Glasgow
Christmas Present: Shipley
Art Gallery, Gateshead |
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| 1998 |
In Arkadia: solo exhibition
touring to Collins Gallery. Glasgow; Upfront Gallery,
Penrith; Inverness Art Gallery & Museum; Belsay Hall, Northumberland;
Ranger’s House, Greenwich;
Corrymella Scott Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Spirit of the Times: Bowes Museum, Barnard
Castle, Co. Durham
50 x 50: Tel Aviv Opera House; The Knitting & Stitching Show in London,
Dublin, Harrogate, & Tatton Park, Cheshire - 62 Group |
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| 1997 |
Paddy Killer - New Work: Bankfield
Museum, Halifax
Traditions: touring exhibition
of the Embroiderer’s Guild Collection
The Language of Touch: Collins
Gallery, Glasgow & Shire Hall, Stafford
In Arkadia: solo exhibition,
Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre |
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| 1996 |
Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire - 62 Group
Living at Belsay: Belsay Hall,
Northumberland
Designing Time: Gateshead
Central Library
Christmas Present: Shipley
Art Gallery, Gateshead |
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| 1995 |
Talking through your Hat: Churchill
House Museum, Hereford
Saddleworth Festival: Uppermill,
Lancashire
62 Group exhibitions at Bury City Art Gallery, Black Swan Guild, Frome; & Braintree
Art Gallery
North by North-East: Durham City Art Gallery |
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| 1994 |
Riches of Stitches: Collins
Gallery, Glasgow
Decorative Arts Today: Bonhams,
Knightsbridge, London
62 Group goes West: Royal
Cornwall Museum, Truro
Cats at the Laing: Laing
Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Picking up Threads: Bankfield
Museum, Halifax |
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| 1993 |
Decorative Arts Today: Bonhams,
Knightsbridge, London
Material Wealth: Bankfield
Museum, Halifax
North by Northeast: Design
Works, Gateshead
Contemporary Figurative Embroidery: Leicester City Art Gallery
Corrymella Scott Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Glorious Gifts: Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
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| 1992 |
62 Group exhibitions in Belfast, Glasgow, London & Japan
Thread of Inspiration: York
Out of the Frame: Crafts Council
Touring Exhibition |
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| 1991 |
Fascinating Fibres: Shipley
Art Gallery, Gateshead - 62 Group
Head to Toe: Ruskin Gallery,
Sheffield
The Krefelder Stitchers: One
Mellon Bank Center, Pittsburgh |
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| 1990 |
Northern Arts Award Winners: Touring
Exhibition
Leeds Polytechnic Gallery - 62 Group
The Embroiderer’s Feast: Doddington
Hall, Lincolnshire
Hankyu Company, Japan - 62 Group
Crafts at Home Showhouse: N.G.F. Gateshead
1990 |
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| 1989 |
Contemporary British Embroidery: Contemporary
Textile Gallery, London
ZSK Project: Deutsches
Textil Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Crossing the Border: Collins
Gallery, Glasgow - 62 Group |
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| 1988 |
The Horticulture Show: Abbot
Hall, Kendal
U.a. Englische Textilkunstler: Galerie
fur Textile Kunst, Steinenbron, Germany
The Embroiderer’s Garden: Doddington
Hall, Lincolnshire & Liberty
Hats by Paddy Killer: Cleveland
Crafts Centre, Middlesbrough |
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| 1987 |
Contemporary Textile Gallery, London
Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal
Leicester City Art Gallery - 62 Group
Woodlands Gallery, Greenwich - 62 Group
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
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| 1986 |
No more than a Foot: Swansea
University Gallery - 62 Group
Paddy Ramsay: Van Mildert
Gallery: University of Durham (solo)
Stitches and Threads: Rufford
Craft Centre
Godfrey & Twatt, Harrogate,
Stitched Textiles for Interiors: R.I.B.A.,
London
Darlington Arts Centre |
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| 1985 |
Woodhorn Church Museum, Ashington (solo)
April Showers: Mid-Pennine
Arts, Burnley
Textile Works: Cleveland
Crafts Centre Touring Exhibition
Newcastle Playhouse Gallery (solo)
South Manchester Gallery |
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| 1984 |
Woodhorn Church Museum, Ashington (solo)
April Showers: Mid-Pennine
Arts, Burnley
Textile Works: Cleveland
Crafts Centre Touring Exhibition
Newcastle Playhouse Gallery (solo)
South Manchester Gallery |
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| 1983 |
Rachel B Kay Shuttleworth Prize Winners: Gawthorpe
Hall, Burnley |
| WORKS IN MAJOR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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Tyne & Wear Museums (3 pieces)
Darlington Borough Council
Embroiderer’s Guild, Hampton Court Palace (2 pieces)
Calderdale Borough Council, Bankfield Museum (3 pieces, 2 site-specific)
Hereford City Museums, Churchill House Museum
Rachel B. Kay-Shuttleworth Collections, Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley
English Heritage, Belsay Hall, Northumberland
Hampshire County Council
Cleveland County Council
Leeds City Council at Lotherton Hall
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| AWARDS/ GRANTS/RESIDENCIES |
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| 2006 |
Arts Council Grant for her retrospective exhibition Drawn
Together at the Knitting and Stitching Shows
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| 2003 |
Arts Council North East Cultural Business Venture Grant for
a new computer & this website |
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| 1999 |
Shortlisted for Artist of the Millennium by
the BBC |
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| 1996 |
Shortlisted for Northern Electric Artists Award |
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| 1995 |
Northern Arts Major Award to develop new work to be shown
as part of Living
at Belsay, Belsay
Hall, Northumberland, during the Year of the Visual Arts |
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| 1993 |
British Council Travel Award to Australia
Artist in Residence: Canberra School of Art |
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| 1990 |
Northern Electric Visual Arts Award |
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| 1989 |
Northern Arts Travel Award to Germany: one of 7 international
textile artists invited to work with computerized multi-head
embroidery machines in an art & industry project with Z.S.K.
Stickmachin Gessellschaft mbH,
Krefeld, Germany |
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| 1988 |
Northern Arts Award to launch Dressed to Kill |
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| 1987 |
Artist in Residence - Billingham Folk Festival |
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| 1985 |
Craftsperson in Residence - Woodhorn Church Museum, Ashington |
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| PUBLIC COMMISSIONS/ COMPETITIONS |
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| 2005 |
Marye the Quene: commission
for Hampshire County Council |
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| 2003 |
Shortlisted for the Textile Commission
for the new Scottish Parliament building
Sex & the Seaside: commission
for Kirklees MBC |
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| 2000 |
Site-specific commission for East Hartford Community Centre,
Northumberland |
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| 1998 |
The Veiled Lady: a site-specific
commission for Bankfield Museum, Halifax
Began working as invited artist on the Leeds
Tapestry 2000 project |
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| 1997 |
National Lottery Commission to make the TaleCoat for
storyteller Taffy Thomas |
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| 1996 |
Tunnel Vision: a Land-Art commission
for Sustrans C2C cycle path
Air U.K. commission for their 1997 calendar
Participant & initiator of The Book of Hours Community
Project with Gateshead Arts & Libraries |
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| 1995 |
A Head for Heights: Commissioned
hat for Hereford City Museums |
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| 1994 |
The Pillars of Art: a site-specific
commission for Bankfield Museum, Halifax |
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| 1990 |
National Garden Festival 1990 commission for the Crafts at
Home Showhouse
Work sold through Christies’ Silent Auction |
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| 1987 |
National Garden Festival 1990 commission for festival advertising |
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| 1985-6 |
Co-operative Bank PLC Commissions for advertising |
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| 1983 |
1st Prize - Rachel B. Kay-Shuttleworth Competition for Embroidery |
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| 1977 |
Fashion Competition winner, University of Alberta |
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| 1975 |
Commission for University Hospital, London, Ontario |
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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| 1982-88 |
Part-time lecturer, Sunderland Polytechnic - BA Artist/Designer/Craftsman |
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| 1984-90 |
Part-time lecturer, Cumbria College of Art & Design |
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| 1985 |
Part-time lecturer, Cleveland College of Art & Design |
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Part-time lecturer, Newcastle College |
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| 1985,6,9,90 |
Teaching courses for Tyne & Wear Museums |
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| 1988-90 |
Part-time lecturer, Monkwearmouth College |
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| 1990 |
Visiting lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
Courses at West Dean & Quarry Bank Mill |
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| 1991,3,4 |
Lecture & workshop tours of Ireland |
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| 1993 |
Lecture & workshop tour of Australia: Mittagong, Sydney,
Canberra, Adelaide |
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| 1993,4 |
Visiting lecturer, Limerick School of Art |
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| ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS PROJECTS |
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Wickham Comprehensive, Blaydon Comprehensive, & Thomas
Hepburn School in Gateshead;
Sacred Heart School in Redcar |
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| INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING BOOKS |
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Twentieth Century Embroidery in Great
Britain from 1978: Constance Howard Batsford, ISBN
0713446587
Designer Textiles: Fiona
Adamczewski, 1986, David & Charles ISBN 0 7153
9040 6, pp 90, 9
The Embroiderer’s
Garden: Thomasina Beck, 1988, David & Charles
ISBN 0 7153 9117 8, pp 2, 63, 123, 155
Quilting: Dorothy Osler, 1991, Merehurst,
ISBN 1 85391 157 7, p.p. 30, 31
Fairytale Quilts and Embroidery: Gail
Harker, 1992, Merehurst,
ISBN 1 85391 145 3, pp 86-89, 139
The Embroiderer’s Flowers: Thomasina
Beck, 1992, David & Charles
ISBN 0 7153 9901 2, pp 10, 31, 32, 60, 89, 90, 108, 126 & jacket
The Merehurst Book of Needlework: 1993,
Merehurst,
ISBN 1 85391 109 7, p 127
Woolcraft: Liz Bloor, 1993, BBC Publications,
ISBN 0 563 36794 6, pp 120-1
The Embroiderer’s
Story; Thomasaina Beck, 1995, David & Charles
ISBN 0 7135 0238 8, pp 11,24, 39, 60, 88, 94, 98,
114, 128, 154, 155
Gardening with Silk and
Gold: Thomasina Beck, 1997, David & Charles,
ISBN 0 7153 0487 9, pp 12, 40, 64, 67, 80, 100,
120, 137, 140-1, 142-3, 153, 154
Embroidery through English
History: Tomoko Nishimori, 1999, p 35, ISBN
4 579 10786
Colour and Design for Embroidery: Richard
Box, 2000, Batsford, pp 54, 58-9 ISBN 0 7134 8486
1
The Point of the Needle: Dorothy
Bromiley Phelan, 2001, p 90, (UK), The Dovecote
Press, ISBN 1 874336 97 0; ( US & Canada) Curious
Works Press,
ISBN 9728584 04 7
Inspired to Stitch - 21 Textile Artists: Diana
Springall, pp124-133, A&C Black, ISBN 10: 07136 6986
1, ISBN 13: 978 0 7136 6986 2
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| INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS |
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Textilforum: 1/87, 38; 4/89,
p.p.29-34
Embroidery/ World of Embroidery: Spring
1984 p.21; Autumn 1988 pp 124-5; Spring 1990 p 16-7;
Winter 1992 pp 206, 204; Autumn 1992 p 166; Spring
1996; Spring 1997 p 29-31, Sept/Oct 2006
Madeira News: 4/1988,
89, 90, 92
Crafts: May/June 1988
pp 26-7; July/Aug 1990 pp 38-9; Sept/Oct 1996 p 34-9;
Oct/Nov 1997 p 15; Jan/Feb 2002 pp 17-19
Homes & Gardens: Sept
1988 p 25
Arts Review: 1990
Ornamente/ Handwerken Zonders
Grenzen: Feb 1990
Textile Fibreforum: no.
37/ 1993 p 10
House & Garden: Oct,
1994 p 16
Observer Magazine: 3.3.96
The Lady: 28.3.96
Northern Review: Nov
1997, June 1998
Artists Newsletter: June
1998
Home: Sept 1998 |
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| INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING CATALOGUES |
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The Embroiderer’s Garden: Doddington
Hall, Lincoln 1988
Festival Landmarks: National
Garden Festival 1990
Out of the Frame: Crafts
Council 1992 ISBN 1 870 14508 9 p28
Decorative Arts Today: Bonhams
1993
Decorative Arts Today: Bonhams
1994
Living at Belsay: Phillips
Auctioneers 1996 ISBN 1 874020 15 9
In Arkadia: Darlington
Arts Centre 1997
The Language of Touch: 62
Group 1997
50x50: 62 Group 1998
The Spirit of the Times: Bowes
Museum 1998
The Art of the Stitch: Embroiderer’s
Guild 1999 ISBN 0 903562 30 8
The Plate Show: Collins
Gallery, Glasgow 1999
arttextiles 2: Bury
St Edmunds Art Gallery 2000 & touring
The Point of the Needle: Dorset
County Museum
Red: 62 Group catalogue
p38
In Context/ In Retrospect: 62
Group catalogue p14
The Gaps Between - International
Textile Biannual 2002: Ormeau Baths Gallery,
Belfast publication
Sons & Mothers: 2003:
Collins Gallery, Glasgow publication |
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| SLIDE LIBRARIES,CDS AND DVDS |
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Arts Council of England NE slide library
411
Arts CD
Tracing Threads - 62 Group CD
Widening Boundaries - 62 Group DVD |
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