MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ME

Qualifications

Dip.Teaching (Advanced)
Certificate in Small Business Management (2007)
and
Workshops, classes and on-line study in a wide range of topics both in New Zealand and Australia, including:
  • Design
  • Colour
  • Mixed media techniques
  • Stitch and embroidery
         and
  • Group communications
  • Problem solving


Teaching & Judging

Tutor -  Creative Journey workshops 
Tutor -  8 NZ National Quilt Symposia 
Tutor - Textile Art in NMIT Visual Arts Programme 

Have also tutored in textile and mixed-media art throughout New Zealand. 
Topics included:
  • Fabric painting
  • Image transfer
  • Printmaking
  • Embellishment (including making beads, cords )
  • Surface design techniques
  • Free machine embroidery
  • Felt
  • Layering, burning and cutback techniques,
  • Design Skills
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 textile excellence including:
  • Filaments of Fire (supreme winner)
  • Quilt Symposia awards for colour, Design and Innovation (4 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 Christchurch Rose Growers, Quilters Barn, The Cloth Shop, 
  • Exhibitions WOW awards (3 entries accepted and shown)
  • Suter Gallery  Embroidery and quilt shows
  • Creative Fibre Guilds Auckland, Wellington , Wanganui, Christchurch,           
  • Norsewear Art Awards
  • ​Lines of Flight (Auckland)
  • Isel Site
  • Deck of Card (travelled U.S.A.)
  • Currency Quilts (travelled Japan and U.S.A.)
  • N.Z. Quilt Symposia (entered and accepted for fourteen years)
  • Fibrelinks
  • Eco Colour Odyssey (Fibre Spectrum)
  • Here and There (painted and stitched travel pictures)
  • Beginnings, Nelson 2013 (5 person show)
  • Handmaid, Nelson 2014 (4 person show)
  • A sense of space, Refinery Artspace Nelson (big solo show)
  • A Needle pulling Thread (7 person show)
  • Unique New Zealand  (Houston U.S.A.)
  • A Needle pulling Thread (7 person show) Framing Rooms 2015
  • ‘Strands’ Refinery Artspace (5 person show) 2012
  • Takaka (guest exhibitor) Ronnie Martin Retrospective 2014
  • ‘Sense of Place’ Refinery Artspace 2014
  • Framing Rooms 2015 (group show)
  • David Ryan Group - Refinery Artspace 2015
  • Aotearoa Textiles - UK Knitting and Stitching show 2015
  • Creative Journeys - Fibre Spectrum (with Jo Kinross) 2017
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Publications

I have contributed articles to the following publications:
  • Snippet Sensations by Cindy Walter
  • More Snippet Sensations by Cindy Walter
  • New Zealand Quilter (x4)  
  • NZ Quilter  (x7) (Changing Threads creative director)
  • Threads magazine (3x)
  • Australian InFusion magazine - Issue 6  (Article and profiled as Featured Tutor )