I trained as a fine artist in Canada and the UK and my work is collage-based and interpreted in cloth. Many pieces are box framed and larger work and installation pieces are unframed. I also produce smaller pieces for private and public exhibitions and to commission.
My house and garden are hugely inspirational and act as a backdrop for my work and that of my artist friends, who exhibit with me each June in South East Open Studios. My studio is a repository for vintage fabric, sewing items, books old and new and art materials. I like to find a use for random pieces of fabric, old sections of garments and other detritus and to refashion them into new artworks.
In 2012, I continue to collaborate with other artists and am exhibiting in the UK and abroad. I'm available for consultancy work and I am also happy to accept and advise on commissioned work. I have just completed a major public commission and am co writing a book on collaborations in Textiles.
My students continue to inspire and inform my work.
Anne Catherine Kelly, BA (hons), ATC, Goldsmiths College, London
Email: mail@annekellytextiles.com
Website: www.annekellytextiles.com
Selected Recent Exhibitions:
2012 DMH Stallard, Crawley (Feb)
Naked Eye Galery, Brighton (Feb)
'Cuttings and other Collaborations' with Cas Holmes, ReCall Studios, Tunbridge Wells (Feb)
'Kiss' Exhiition, Galler Different, London (Feb)
'Polish and Pin' AOH Brighton (May)
'Shed Gallery', SEOS Tunbridge Wells,(June)
Knitting and Stitching Show and Festival of Quilts with Cas Holmes
August/October
2011 'Domestic Mapping' with Cas Holmes, Trinity Town and Country Gallery, Tunbridge Wells (March)
Artists Open Houses 'Polish and Pin', Brighton (May and December)
South East Open Studios, Tunbridge Wells (June)
Tunbridge Wells Museum wall (June)
East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair, Rye (June)
'Tree Exhibition'- The Art Room, Ashford (June-July)
Parallax 2 - Parallax Art Fair, London (July)
'Freiheit-Liberte-Freedom', Festival of Quilts, Birmingham and touring to Moscow, Prague and Germany
ongoing work for sale at Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
Renegade Handmade, Chicago
'Lyrical Journeys', Brewhouse Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, Kent (October)
'Native Flair', Tunbridge Wells Hospital (November)
work at 'Loverslight Gallery', Twickenham from October
'Polish and Pin' Hove, Christmas event (November/December)
Saffron Gallery, Battle - Christmas exhibition (December/January)
2010 Kings Hill Art/Business Partnership - installations and wall pieces (Jan - March 2010)
DMH Stallard, London - selected work (March - May)
East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair (April)
South East Open Studios, Tunbridge Wells (June)
'Threads' Artloco Gallery, Ticehurst, E. Sussex (June/July)
'Natural Histories' - touring Artworks MK - Milton Keynes (June)
and Maidstone Library Gallery (September)
Gallery 100 Brighton (August/September)
Tunnel Art Gallery, Tonbridge Open Art Exhibition (October)
Canterbury Art Fair/Kent Art Space Launch, Creek Creative Studios, Faversham (November)
'In Touch', Dorton House - RLIB, Sevenoaks (November)
MCCT, Montreal, Canada '20x20 exhibition' (November/December)
2009 Canterbury Art Fair (November)
‘Resonant Textiles’, Farnham Maltings, Surrey (October) and touring 2010
Liberty Gallery 'Craft Cases', Maidstone (July – November)
'Shed Gallery', Tunbridge Wells, South East Open Studios (June)
‘Spring’ Exhibition, Ingoldsby Gallery, Margate (April/Mayl)
‘Gallery in the Glasshouse’, Hawkhurst, (May)
‘All You Need Is…’, Garret Gallery, Tenterden (February)
Textile Museum of Canada Shop
2008 ‘Natural History’ solo exhibition, Farnham Maltings, Surrey
Canterbury Art Fair, UCCA Canterbury
South East Open Studios, Tunbridge Wells
Gallery in the Glasshouse, Hawkhurst
‘Finite?’, Hadlow College, near Tonbridge
2007‘Rare’, Gallery MK, Milton Keynes
‘By Hand 9’, County Gallery, Maidstone
South East Open Studios, Tunbridge Wells
2006 ‘By Hand 8’, County Gallery, Maidstone and Ashford Library
‘Mixed Journeys’, Chequermead Centre, East Grinstead
‘Mini Gallery East’. Holt, Norfolk
South East Open Studios, Tunbridge Wells
‘First Class Post’, Kent Libraries touring exhibition
2005 ‘By Hand 7’, County Gallery, Maidstone
2004 ‘By Hand 6’, County Gallery, Maidstone
Recent Publications
'Natural Histories' review, Brenda Parsons author,'Embroidery' Magazine, March 2010
'The Found Object in Textile Art', Cas Holmes, published September 2010
fiberarts listing 'Domestic Mapping' Spring 2011 issue
pending 'Connected Cloth' with Cas Holmes, publication date 2013
Awards
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, two consecutive awards
Hospice in the Weald Award, Tonbridge Open Art Exhibition 2010