SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2009
  
  • Excess, Collins Gallery, Glasgow

• 2007
  
  • EAT *, Customs House Gallery, South Shields

• 2006
  
  • EAT *, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

• 2005   
  
  • Feast at Mind, Body and Spirit exhibition at GMEX, Manchester

• 2002   
  
  • Journeys of Discovery,  Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham

• 2001  
  
  • WASTED “Are you sitting comfortably?”  Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle and The Dock Museum, Barrow*  

• 2000   
  
  • Soft Pots,  Manchester Craft and Design Centre.
  • Eco House,  Brampton, Cumbria
  • Soft Touch,  Fat Hen Gallery, Cumbria.  

TWO ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

• 2003   
  
  • Personal Baggage  (with photographer Vince Bevan) touring exhibition of a sculptural and photographic response to residency in Distington, Cumbria.

• 2001   
  
  • In Sheep’s Clothing   (with Annie Sherbourne) touring exhibition of the North – organised by ‘Designed for the Dales’ to bring contemporary art to rural communities.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2010
  
  • Climate Change, Rhyl Arts Centre
  • 18 @ 108, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
• 2009  
  • Love London Recycled Sculpture Show, London Wetland Centre, Barnes
• 2008
  
  • Reworked 2, Oriel Washington Gallery, Penarth
  • Fred, Temporary Public Art Invasion Across Cumbria
• 2007
  
  • 18 @ 108, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London 
  • Spectrum, Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, Wiltshire
  • Local, Mill Yard Studio, Staveley, Cumbria
  • FRED - temporary public art invasion across Cumbria
• 2006  
  
  • FRED - temporary public art invasion across Cumbria
  • Conceive, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London
  • Landmarks 111, Lowood Gallery, Cumbria.  Sculpture ‘Highly Acclaimed’
  • Art London, Chelsea
• 2005   
  
  • The British are Coming  Fiberscene (USA) web exhibition
  • Brewery Open  Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
• 2004   
  
  • Pure Rubbish  Northern Quarter Gallery, Manchester
  • Of Material Concern  Sheffield Millenium Galleries
  • FRED - temporary public art invasion across Cumbria
• 2003   
  
  • Trash  Ropewalk Gallery, North Lincolnshire
  • The Seating Plan  Green Gallery, Brighton
  • Essence  Lowood Gallery, Cumbria
  • Material Spaces   Tullie House Art Gallery and Museum, Carlisle
  • Snowcase 3  Fold Gallery, Kirkby Stephen
• 2002-3 
  
  • Red *  Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Beverley Art Gallery, Linen Museum, Ireland Upfront Cumbria and Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham.
  • InContext*  Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Oxo Peugeot Design Awards Exhibition  Oxo Tower Wharf Gallery, London, and touring
• 2002  
  
  • Hemmed In  Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracy, Devon
  • Ideas  Bury Art Gallery and Museum
• 2001   
  
  • ExtraOrdinary  Cumbria Institute of the Arts,  Queen Elizabeth College, Cleveland College,  Gateshead College,  The Bowes Museum.
  • Room With A View  Tullie House Museum, Carlisle , Cumbria
  • Recycled  Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston, Lincolnshire.  
  • Collective Response  Bankfield Museum, Halifax
• 2000-1 
  
  • New Directions – The Art of the Feltmaker  (International Feltmakers) Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal ,  Orleans House Art Gallery, Twickenham,  Walsall Museum and Art Gallery,  Hall Place, Bexley,  Makers Guild, Cardiff,  Bankfield Museum, Halifax,  Morley Gallery, London,  Gosport Gallery, Beverley Art Gallery.
• 2000  
  
  • Funky Stuff  Rufford Craft Centre, Newark
  • Out of the Garden *  Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.
  • Soft Touch  Black Swan Guild, Frome
  • 100% Design  Business Design Centre, London.  
• 1999    
  
  • On and Off the Wall  Maidstone Museum Art Gallery, Edinburgh City Art Centre.
  • Threads The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe.
  • Ware  The Crescent Arts Gallery, Scarborough
• 1997-8 
  
  • Spin Cycle – Recycling & Reclaiming Traditions*  The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Canada
  • Layers of Meaning – a contemporary approach to the rag rug *
  • Woodhorn Colliery Museum, Ashington,  Bradford Industrial Museum,  
  • Collins Art Gallery, Glasgow, and Cleveland Craft Centre, Middlesborough.
• 1996   
  
  • New Designers  Business Design Centre, London.
• 1995   
  
  • Art of the Stitch*  Commonwealth Institute, London and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
  • Charles Henry Foyle Trust Award for Stitched Textiles*  Redditch Needle Museum.

                      *catalogues available