Collections

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

International Quilt Museum, Lincoln NE, USA

Museum of Arts & Design, New York

The Quilt Museum, York

Costume & Textile Association, Norwich

The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead

Braintree District Museum

Private collections

Exhibitions

2024 International Patchwork Festival, Sitges, Spain organised by the Spanish Patchwork Association, invited artist.
2024 The Stitch Festival, London, gallery organised by Helen Adams,Textile Curator, invited artist.
2023 The Written Word, Tinker Gallery, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
2023 Alternative Means, Sculpt Gallery, Great Braxted, Essex.
2023 Quilt National 23, Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio, USA.
2023 Quilt Art: Following the Thread, Old Cloth Factory, Luxembourg.
2023 Quilt Art: Material Evidence, the Hub, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
2023 Norfolk Makers Festival, juror in open textile art exhibition; Bold Perspectives; Norwich.
2022 Norfolk Makers Festival, juror in open textile art exhibition; Adjustment; Norwich.
2022 Quilt Art: Material Evidence, Textilsammlung Max Berk, Heidelberg.
2021 Quilts: Resurgence. Quilts from Quilters Guild collection, curated by Pauline Burbidge, Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
2021 Quilt Art: Re-Group. Kapellerput, Heeze, Netherlands.
2021 Art at Home, curated by Kath Wood, Twickenham, London, weekend artist’s residency and exhibition.
2021 Juxtapose Art Fair, Aarhus, Denmark. Blackwater Polytechnic and M100 Gallery.
2021 EA Festival, exhibition at Hedingham Castle, Essex, curated by Georgie Garthwaite.
2021 We Are Commoners, Blackwater Polytechnic exhibition, organised by Craftspace at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, and touring till December 2022.
2021 Quilt Art: Traces, Lidköping, Sweden.
2020 Quilt Art: Material Evidence, Fuga Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
2019 Resistant Materials III,Blackwater Polytechnic, Feering Bury Farm Barn, Feering, Essex.
2019 Exhibitionat The Old Rectory, Fairstead, Essex, curated by Andrew & Georgie Garthwaite.
2019 Quilt National 19,Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio, USA.
2019 THREAD:  Contemporary Needlecraft,Rheged Centre, Penrith, Cumbria.
2019 Quilt Art:  Material Evidence, Menier Gallery, London.
2019 Quilt Art:  Traces,Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham.
2019 3D Expressions,SAQA exhibition, touring US.
2019 Quilt Art: Dialogues, Kirkcudbright Galleries, Scotland
2018 Kimura Gallery, ‘The Bounded Text’, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA.
2018 Fine Art Quilt Masters, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham.
2018 Crafts Council’s Maker of the Week, 7 – 14 September, online social media platforms.
2018 Anglia Textile Works,‘Inspired By …’, Braintree District Museum.
2018 Quilt Expo Japan, SAQA exhibition ‘Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric’, Tokyo.
2018 Colchester Art Society Winter Exhibition, Minories, Colchester, Essex.
2017 Quilt Art ‘Small Talk’, International Quilt Study Center, University of Lincoln-Nebraska, USA.
2017 Fine Art Quilt Masters, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham.
2017 Quilt National ’17, Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio, USA.
2017 Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric, SAQA exhibition, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, USA.
2017 Quilt Art ‘Dialogues’, Guildford House, Guildford, Surrey.
2017 Through Our Hands: A Portrait, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham.
2017 Anglia Textile Works, Snape Maltings, Suffolk.
2017 TEXT, Sentinel Gallery, Wivenhoe, Colchester.
2017 Anglia Textile Works, Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
2017 Ekphrasis, poets and artists collaboration, Minories, Colchester.
2017 New Quilting, Rheged Centre, Penrith, Cumbria.
2017 Threads: Celebrating Creativity in Historic & Contemporary Quilts, Quilters’ Guild Collection, selected quilts at Torre Abbey, Torquay.
2017 Paintings, Sculptures, Textiles & Ceramics, Exhibition at The Old Rectory, Fairstead, Essex curated by Andrew & Georgie Garthwaite.
2016 Norwich Shawls: Past Glory, Present Inspiration, Costume & Textile Association, Norwich Cathedral.
2016 Flat-Out Lowlanders, Blackwater Polytechnic Open Studios, Feeringbury Farm Barn, Feering, Essex.
2016 Fine Art Quilt Masters, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham.
2016 Anglia Textile Works, Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Wales.
2016 Embroiderers’ Guild & Capability Brown 300th Anniversary Festival, Knitting & Stitching Show, London & Harrogate.
2016 Quiltfest 2016, Royal International Pavilion, Llangollen, Wales
2016 Embroiderers’ Guild & Capability Brown Anniversary Festival
2016 Quiltfest 2016, Llangollen, Wales
2015 ‘Brocki’ Open Studios, Blackwater Polytechnic, Feering, Essex
2015 Fine Art Quilt Masters, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham
2015 Quilt Art ‘Dialogues’, Textilsammlung Max Berk, Heidelberg & The Quilt Museum, York
2015 Quilt Art ‘Small Talk,’ Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham & The Silk Museum, Macclesfield
2015 ‘The Liberated Quilt’, Through our Hands exhibition, Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton
2015 Open Exhibition, Firstsite, Colchester
2015 ‘Thinking Thread’ solo exhibition at Braintree District Museum, 25 March – 29 May.
Also including ‘Octet,’ an selection of quilts by Anglia Textile Works.
2014 ‘Silvery Threads,’ Norwich Cathedral, silver anniversary exhibition of the Costume and Textile Association, Norwich.
2014 FABRIC at Collyer Bristow Gallery, 4 Bedford Row, London  WC1R  4TF.
2014 ‘Things We Do in Bed’, curated by Tracy Chevalier, Danson House, Bexleyheath.
2014 ‘Writing and Object’, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, Munich.
2014 ‘In Search of Perfection,’ Quilt Art, Museum Tsaritsyno, Moscow.
2014 ‘The Essex Embassy,’ Blackwater Polytechnic, Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London.
2014 Quilt National 13, The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio.
2012 ‘Voices’, Quilt Art, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon, and touring.
2012 ‘AcCENT,’ UK quilts at the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky.
2011 Quilt National 11, The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio.
2010 ‘QUILTS 1700-2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
2010 ‘Quilt Art at 25’. Bankfield Museum, Halifax and touring.
2008 ‘Quilts in Time: Journey from Bed to Wall,’ The Quilt Museum, York.
2007 Quilt National 07, The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio.
2006 Winner of QUILT 2006 at the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham.
2006 ‘art of the stitch’, Embroiderers’ Guild, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2001 ‘Six Continents of Quilts,’ Museum of Arts & Design, New York

Groups

Quilt Art      www.quiltart.eu

The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles (honorary member)     www.quiltersguild.org.uk

Blackwater Polytechnic     www.blackwaterpolytechnic.org.uk

Contemporary Quilt    www.contemporaryquilt.org.uk

British Quilt Study Group     www.bqsg.quiltersguild.org.uk

Suffolk Poetry Society    www.suffolkpoetrysociety.org.uk