2024 Exhibitions:
September 6-14: Woven exhibition at The Fox Yard Studio Gallery, Stowmarket. Mim & Ali’s Afternoon Tea (Towel) Party and Jackie’s Interior Decomposition chosen for inclusion.
September 1 - 30: Contrast online exhibition with Metaspace Gallery. Do You See What I See, Sashiko Calms Me, and Abstract Leaves (Silver) embroidery included.
August 26 - September 1: The Drowned World exhibition at 54 The Gallery, Mayfair. Japanese Garden (Autumn), Do You See What I See and six embroideries chosen for inclusion.
July 17 - 23: Seven For a Secret exhibition at J/M Gallery in Portobello Road, London. 3 x sculptures included.
July 1 - 31 July: Lines, Shapes & Objects online exhibition with Fusion Art. Mim & Ali’s Afternoon Tea (Towel) Party received 5th place for 3D Art.
May 18 - 10 August: The Mirror of Life exhibition at Croydon Art Space. New work: Do You See What I See commissioned for inclusion.
May 14 - 8 June: Shared Spaces exhibition with Anima! Artist Collective at Willesden Gallery, London. Mim & Ali’s Afternoon Tea (Towel) Party, Lisa’s Africa, Japanese Garden (Spring) and small embroideries included. This is our third exhibition together and includes a collective art piece created by all nine members painting at lease two 20x20cm stretched canvases.
April 12-17: Dreams and Nightmares exhibition at Boomer Gallery, London. Mim & Ali’s Afternoon Tea (Towel) Party and Lisa’s Africa on exhibition.
March 17 - 14 April: Shadows (online) exhibition with Royal blue Gallery. Japanese Garden (Autumn) chosen and shown on a plinth in this walk through virtual exhibition.
January 15 - April 14: Land, Sea & Sky (online) exhibition with Fusion Art. Family Holiday (Greece) chosen as an exhibition finalist.
January 8 - 31: Ruby Red, with Collect Art (online). Japanese Garden (Autumn) and other paintings included. Japanese Garden used on front cover of special edition exhibition magazine.
January 5 - 31: 13th Virtual Art Exhibition, with Circular ArtSpace (online). Lisa’s Africa, Japanese Garden (Spring) and Couture Dreams included in this ‘walk through’ exhibition.
January 1 - 31: Renewal Reverie: Embracing the New Start, with Cista Arts London (online). Japanese Garden (Spring) included.
2023 Exhibitions:
September 28 - December 23, 2023: Anima! Art Collective Exhibition: ‘Continuum’, as part of the Abstract World exhibition at Croyden Art Space, London. Japanese Garden (Autumn) being shown.
October 1-31, 2023: Patterns, Textures & Forms exhibition, by Light Space Time online gallery, USA. Couture Dreams chosen for inclusion as a ‘3 Dimensional Special Recognition Artist’.
Sept 29-30, 2023: Crawl Space, by Fresh Fruit at the Crypt Gallery, London. Couture Dreams included.
August 26 - September 30, 2023: In Memory Of, at The House of Smalls Art Gallery in Chipping Campden. Pam’s Liberty chosen for inclusion.
August 1 - 30: Abstract Tangles, Cista Arts London (online). Two sculptures included: Couture Dreams and Jackie’s Internal Decomposition.
July 8 - 28, 2023: Botanical and Floral Art, Open Gallery, Halifax. Japanese Garden (Autumn) selected and included in the exhibition.
July 4 - August 4, 2023: Positive Vibes Only, Metaspace Gallery Montly Issue 2 (online). Two sculptures included: Family Holiday (Greece), and Alexander’s 7 year-old self.
July 14, 2023: The World is Here with Me, part of a special Covid 19 Blog by Dwell Time. The World is Here with Me (2020) by Claire Manners Wood – Dwell Time (wordpress.com), describing the cushion made during the first lockdown.
June 1 - 30, 2023: The Place of Memory, Cista Arts London (online). Two sculptures included: Family Holiday (Greece), and Pam’s Liberty.
May 3 - 16, 2023: Becoming. Together. Anima! Art Collective Exhibition, Willesden Gallery, London.
March 30 - April 2, 2023: The Holy Art Fair, OXO Tower Bargehouse, London.
Commissions:
September 2023: Completed Lisa’s Africa, a commission to make a sculpture for a client who was born and grew up in Rhodesia. She requested an art piece to display with her collection of African masks. The client supplied African batik wax fabrics and African keepsakes. I made an abstract mask sculpture to hang on the wall within her collection.
May 2024: Do You See What I See? was commissioned by Croydon Art Space for an exhibition themed The Mirror of Life. My parameters were that it must only use black and white fabrics (and possibly silver) and be 40cm high. I created two mirrored ‘stems’, one of which starts with black fabrics and works towards white and the other vice versa. This sculpture contains important life moments: birth, death, marriage, togetherness, loneliness.
Other news:
31 July, 2023: Longlisted by the Visual Artists Association for the Visual Art Open 2023 UK & International Emerging Artist Awards.
