CV

    
 
2005-2006
Organizing an exhibition "Is this embroidery?" of the work of myself and four other artists to be held at Stockport Art Gallery in May 2006
 
Working with BTEC students at Parklands High School
 
Work exhibited in the offices of GAIEA
2005
Commissioned to make two wall hangings for Profile Books.
 
Ran workshops at St George's Primary School Stockport with 132 year 4,5 and 6 pupils making three African themed wall hangings
 
Ran workshops at Sheffield Children's Hospital with patients aged from 6 to 18 to make a Rainforest wallpanel as part of Sheffield Children's Festival
 
Ran workshops at Sheffield Children's Hospital in conjunction with the Palace and Mosque exhibition at the Millennium Galleries making textile panels based on Iznik tiles.  
 
Exhibited in the Gordon Cooke Summer Show
 
Gave talks on my work to Textiles 21 Group and North West Embroidery Grou
 
Christmas sales in London and Manchester
2001-2004
BA (Hons) Embroidery, First Class Honours, Manchester Metropolitan University
 
For my final show I made four panels of manipulated and dyed cloth for the waiting area of the Christie Hospital's Outpatient Department and  worked with users of the Department to create a further stitched panel.  All five panels are currently hanging in the hospital.
 
Ran workshops for other students on the use of Photoshop to present their designs and gave a talk at the Whitworth Art Gallery on the Embroidery Degree
 
Ran workshops at Manchester High School for Girls with Year 5 pupils teaching creative embroidery to make stitched wall hangings and with Year 6 pupils on slipper designing and making.
 
Littoral Arts, Textile Identities, working at Manchester Airport as part of a Commonwealth Games project with Tongan and Australian Aboriginal women to create and display work based upon traditional textile skills
Other Qualifications
 
2000
BTEC Foundation Art and Design, City College, Manchester
1999
City and Guilds Textile Decoration, South Trafford College
1996
MSc Management Science, UMIST
1978
BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge.  Specialising in Pathology
Employment
 
1994 -1995
Research Assistant, Manchester School of Management,
1985 -1989
Computer Consultant, Hoskyns plc, Manchester
1984 -1985
Computer Programmer, Centralogic Ltd, Manchester
1981 - 1984
Development Officer, Elfrida Rathbone Society, Manchester
1979 - 1981
Research Assistant, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
1978 - 1979
Research Assistant, The London Hospital Medical School