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2005-2006
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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
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Working with BTEC students at Parklands High School
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Work exhibited in the offices of GAIEA
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2005
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Commissioned to make two wall hangings for Profile Books.
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Ran workshops at St George's Primary School Stockport with 132 year 4,5 and 6 pupils making three African
themed wall hangings
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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
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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.
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Exhibited in the Gordon Cooke Summer Show
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Gave talks on my work to Textiles 21 Group and North West Embroidery Grou
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Christmas sales in London and Manchester
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2001-2004
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BA (Hons) Embroidery, First Class Honours, Manchester Metropolitan University
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Other Qualifications
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2000
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BTEC Foundation Art and Design, City College, Manchester
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1999
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City and Guilds Textile Decoration, South Trafford College
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1996
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MSc Management Science, UMIST
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1978
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BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge. Specialising in Pathology
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Employment
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1994 -1995
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Research Assistant, Manchester School of Management,
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1985 -1989
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Computer Consultant, Hoskyns plc, Manchester
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1984 -1985
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Computer Programmer, Centralogic Ltd, Manchester
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1981 - 1984
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Development Officer, Elfrida Rathbone Society, Manchester
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1979 - 1981
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Research Assistant, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
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1978 - 1979
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Research Assistant, The London Hospital Medical School
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