Creative Director for Changing Threads National Textile and Fibre Awards (founder in 2009)with Arts Council Nelson
Attended many workshops and classes and online study courses in a wide range of topics both in New Zealand and Australia (e.g. group communications, problem-solving, art-related courses such as design, colour, mixed media techniques, stitch and embroidery)
TEACHING and judging
Workshops, classes and on-line study in a wide range of topics both New Zealand and Australia, including: Design, Colour, Mixed media techniques, Stitch and embroidery, Group communications, and Problem solving
Tutor - Creative Journey workshops Tutor - 8 NZ National Quilt Symposia Tutor - Textile Art in NMIT Visual Arts Programme (occasional tutor for visual arts programme in 2012,2013, 2014) Creative Director - Changing Threads National Textile and Fibre Awards Judge - Quilting, Embroidery and Creative Fibre exhibitions (attended 3 day quilt judging course in Auckland)
Awards & Exhibitions
I have exhibited widely Creative Fibre Guest exhibitor for several National and International exhibitions and I have shown as exhibitor or guest artist in many small local shows. I have received a number of awards for creative textiles and painting.
Filaments of Fire (supreme winner)
Quilt Symposia awards for colour, Design and Innovation (5 awards)
3 Hoffman Awards (winner twice, runner up once)
Opotoki Fleece and Fibre Awards-winner overall award, best use of thread, colour award twice
Creative Fibre Guild-colour and Design awards
Embroidery Guild-recipient of National Scholarship for Travel overseas to study at a Textile Forum
Various quilt awards such as Chch Rose Growers, Quilters Barn, The Cloth Shop,
WOW awards (3 entries accepted and shown)
Suter Gallery –Embroidery and quilt shows
Creative Fibre guilds-Auckland, Wellington, Wanganui, Christchurch, Hamilton
Norsewear Art Awards
Unique New Zealand (Houston U.S.A.)
Lines of Flight (Auckland)
Isel Site
Deck of Cards (travelled the U.S.A.)
Currency Quilts (travelled Japan and the U.S.A.)
N.Z. Quilt Symposia (entered and accepted for fourteen years)
Fibre links 2013
Eco Colour Odyssey-(Fibre Spectrum)
Here and There (painted and stitched travel pictures) 2013
Beginnings, Nelson 2013 (5 person show)
Strands (4 person show) 2014
Handmaid, Nelson 2014 (four-person show)
A Sense of space,2015 Refinery Artspace Nelson (big solo show)
Ronnie Martin retrospective, (guest artist) Collingwood 2015
A Needle pulling Thread 2016 (7person show)
A Creative Journey, Fibre Spectrum 2016
Aotearoa textile artists –UK 2016 London, Harrogate and Dublin
Creative Fibres -Guest exhibitor for several National and International exhibitions
Kaimara Vineyard Gallery-guest artist January 2019
Wall to Wall Gallery-guest artist October2019-March 2020
Nelson Suter Art Society-2019-(5 person show)(Spring exhibition 2019, Summer 2019, Autumn 2020, Spring 2020)
Wall to Wall Gallery –October 2020-March 2021
Publications
Featured in several publications, including. -Snippet Sensations by Cindy Walter -More Snippet Sensations by Cindy Walter -New Zealand Quilter-four issues (individual articles) -NZ Quilter –eight issues (Changing Threads creative director) -Threads magazine(six issues) -1998-2019 -Australian InFusion magazine-Issue 6 article and featured tutor profile Australian “Embellish ‘ magazine- article and project 2018