Projects
Cornerstone "One Snowy Night" Cushion Project
This project involved the reception class of Chalgrove Primary School and the Year 6 group at Hagbourne printing the covers for cushions for the children to sit on, at the performance of "One Snowy Night" by Nick Butterworth at Cornerstone, Didcot - December 2011. The Year 10 group at Didcot Girls School embroidered the tops and cut them out.
view project »Cowley Road Carnival
This project is run in conjunction with Windmill Primary School to make items for the Cowley Road Carnival. The theme is "Flower Power"
view project »Textile Project for Viewing Rooms at Frenchay and Southmeads Hospitals Bristol
This project initiated by North Bristol NHS Trust is part of the re-design of the mortuaries at both the Frenchay and Southmead sites. These are now being reworked into much more sensitive, family-centred spaces to be renamed Viewing Rooms.
view project »The Largest Diffraction Pattern in the World
October 2008 saw the start of a new collaboration with Diamond Light and Evotec to create The Largest Diffraction Pattern in the World. This will be a 3m x 3m textile hanging depicting protein crystals discovered at Diamond. Eventually over 5000 people will participate in the project and the finished textile will be unveiled in 2010.
view project »The Big Draw - Mill Arts Centre Banbury
"The Big Draw" is a national campaign running during October. In 2008 it is in its ninth year. This year over 1000 venues, including: galleries, museums, science centres, heritage and environmental sites, libraries, archives, community and shopping centres, colleges, schools and art clubs are hosting drawing activities for people of all ages and abilities.
Events were held in Banbury to coincide with Year of Reading on Canal Day on 4th October and with the Multicultural Centre on 25th October. On these days families decorated textile panels each depicting the hats of characters from well known books. These were then joined to make the Big Story Blanket. view project »
Artist in Residence - Diamond Light Ltd
Following on from the successful Designs for Life project
(see below) I was one of three Artists in Residence
at Diamond Light Source from October 2007 - 2008.
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Collaboration for the Chelsea Flower Show
Collaboration with sculptor
Paula Groves
for pieces of work for the
Chelsea Flower Show.
Taking the design from one of my chiffon scarves,
pieces of mild and stainless steel have been cut and
will be assembled into new forms.
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Designs for Life
Lead designer for "Designs for Life" a large wall based art project for the Diamond Light Source
project at the Harwell Chilton Science Campus near Didcot.
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