I use a 24 shaft loom with a computer interface. It should be noted that the work of the computer interface is to remember the next weft pick for it does not create the design on the loom, I create the design and enter the fibre and colours where I want them. In other words, all of my handweaving is manual. I weave with natural fibres, particularly cotton.
Exhibitions
June 2004 BA Contemporary Craft, Degree Show MMU Cheshire
July 2004 New Designers London
Sept 2006 MA Textiles, Degree Show MMU Manchester
July – Sept 2007 Cheshire Open Studios Exhibition Castle Park Arts Centre Frodsham
Sept & Dec 2007 Cheshire Open Studios
Nov 2007 Art in the Sticks Exhibition
July-Aug 2008 AGWSD National Exhibition ‘FABRICreATIONS’ Cornerstone Gallery Liverpool
Sept 2008 AWSD ‘In and Out of the Garden’ Quarry Bank Mill
Aug –Sept 2008 Cheshire Open Studios Exhibition Studio Art 350 Wilderspool Causeway, Warrington
Sept 2008 Cheshire Open Studios
Oct - Dec 2008 Castle Park Arts Centre Annual Open Exhibition
July 2009 AWSD ‘Our Textile Heritage’ Little Moreton Hall
Sept 9 - Oct 11 2009 'Ten Plus @ Rossendale' Rossendale Museum
Sept – Oct 2009 Cheshire Open Studios Exhibition Castle Park Arts Centre Frodsham
Sept 2009 Cheshire Open Studios at Garry Olsen Studio
Oct - Dec 2009 Castle Park Arts Centre Annual Open Exhibition
Nov 09- Jan 2010 Open Exhibition 2009 Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff
Dec 09- Jan 10 Winter Blues Exhibition, The Egg Cafe Liverpool
Jan 2010 Abstract Art Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff
Jan 29 – May 1 2010 Waterside Arts Centre Open Exhibition
April 17– May 29 10 AGWSD National Exhibition ‘Kaleidoscope’ Mansfield Museum
May 15 – July 11 2010 'Ten
Plus @ Bankfield’, Bankfield Museum, Halifax.
Aug 21 –Sept 4 2010 Cheshire Open Studios
Exhibition Victoria Mill Arts, Congleton
Sept 18 - 26 Sept AWSD Exhibition at Quarry Bank Mill,
Styal
Sept 2010 Cheshire Open Studios Garry Olsen Studio
12 February -19 June 2011 Ten Plus r 20 @ Salford
Museum and Art Gallery
Alsager Weavers Spinners and Dyers Guild Activities
Sept 13 2008 Norman Festival Middlewich (Middlewich in Action) Demonstrating May 23 2009 AWSD Open Day Rode Heath Village Hall
June 6 2009 Alsager Together Demonstrating weaving
Sept 12 2009 Congleton Now Demonstrating weaving
Dec 9 Ladies’ Night, Bank Corner, Alsager
Workshops
Nov 27 2004 Weave workshop as part of the Craft Council's 'Show5' exhibition Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley, Staffordshire
Jan 2010 ‘Weaving for Texture’ workshop
March 20 2010 Dyeing vegetable fibres
Markets
October 2 2008 Fashion Show Civic Hall, Ellesmere Port Thursday,
Oct 18 2008 Castle Park October Fayre
Dec 2008 Rode Hall Farmers’ Market
July 4 2009 VMA Craft Market
Dec 2009 Rode Hall Farmers’ Market
Dec 2009 Swettenham Arms Food and Craft Fair
Dec 2009 Alsager Farmers’ Market
Feb 2010 Alsager Farmers’ Market Demonstrating and ‘have a go’ at weaving
Apr 24 2010 Bluecoat Contemporary Art & Craft Fair