sue.l.harrison@btinternet.com
Currently
• Freelance Environmental Artist now based in N.Yorkshire. My artwork involves mixed media and fibre. I exhibit work both nationally and internationally. My main interest is harnessing creative responses to the natural environment
• Lectures and workshops to various groups
• Member of the Landscape and Arts Network
• Member of Nidderdale Visual Arts
Education and employment
• BA Stitched Textiles with Opus and Middlesex University (1st class Hons) 2003- 2008
• Lecturer in City and Guilds Creative Studies at South Trafford College from 1997 –2001
• Tutor at the Voirrey Embroidery Centre on the Wirral, Cheshire from 1997 - 2000
• City and Guilds :‘Patchwork and Quilting’ and ‘Creative Embroidery’from1991 – 1997. Awarded a highly commended
• Primary school teacher with a post for Environmental Studies for Cumbria County Council until I left to have my own children in 1980. Subsequently worked for Cheshire County Council as a Supply Teacher and also taught special needs pupils until 1994
• Postgraduate Teaching Certificate in1975.
• BA in Social Anthropology (II.I Hons) in 1974 from Manchester University
• Born in Wolverhampton in 1952, educated at the Girls’ High School, Wolverhampton
Selected Community Art
• Co –organiser of Layers of Response event, a weekend of investigating creative responses to the natural landscape, 2009.
• Creative Papermaking workshops with teachers from Nidderdale High School and visiting Kenyan teachers June 2009.
• North Yorkshire Open Studios environmental art workshops, 2009.
• Big Draw project in partnership with Nidderdale AONB and Nidderdale Arts Partnership 2007.
• Artist with Shaping Our Landscape project for Nidderdale Arts Partnership, 2007
• Public art training project with Chrysalis on an urban regeneration design for developing a Living Street in Bradford, 2005.
• Artist in residence Landmark Project with Nidderdale Visual Arts, 2004 .
• Wirral Country Park Residency, Thurstaton, to create an outdoor temporary sculpture with over 600 school children of all ages including special needs groups, 2002.
• Cheshire Entitlement Residency with eleven schools culminating in a major exhibition, 2001.
• Halton Disability Arts Project at Norton Priory, 2001.
• Recreating Cheshire residency with year 8 Art Students from All Hallows School , Macclesfield in the Silk Museum culminating in an exhibition, 2001.
• Millennium Pilgrimage Residency with six Cheshire schools culminating in an exhibition, 2000.
• Commission and community residency in Cheshire to make a Millennium Quilt, 1999.
• Commission to provide a temporary site specific public artwork alongside a cycle path through the Weaver Parkway, 1999.
• Unilever Environmental Art Residency in Wirral Schools culminating in an exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery, 1998.
• From 1996 – 2001 environmental art workshops for Cheshire Wildlife Trust at venues such as their Environmental Arts Day and Only One Earth on an annual basis.
• Environmental events for Cheshire County Council such as Heathland Action Day and Anderton Extravaganza.
• Tree Dressing Workshops for Vale Royal Chester Fringe from1996 - 2001.
Selected exhibitions:
• Lifelines, number 6 Studio Gallery, Pateley Bridge, Sept 2009.
• Open Textile Exhibition, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, Sept – Oct 2008.
• Degree Show, Mall Galleries, London, July 2008.
• Healing , Outdoor exhibition, Norton Priory, Cheshire, May – June 2008.
• Shaping our Landscape, Nidderdale Plus, Pateley Bridge, October 2007
• Resurfacing, Macclesfield Silk Museum with Threadmill, May- June 2007
• On the Map, touring International exhibition on the use of local fleece, many venues throughout 2004 and 2005 ending in Barcelona 2006.
• Fur and Fleece, Nidd Castle Shooting Lodge, Lofthouse, with Jessica Harrison, July 2004,touring to Fountain’s Abbey, October 2004
• Hebden Bridge Sculpture Trail, West Yorkshire, June – July 2004
• Inclusions, Townley Hall, Burnley, with Threadmill, May – July 2004
touring to Astley Cheetham, Stalybridge, July – September 2004
• International exhibition of Felting, Budapest, Hungary, July 2004
• Quilt 2003, Birminham N.E.C. (selected), April 2003
• High Places, Stockport Art Gallery, with the International Felting Association,, Feb – June 2003 and Farfield Gallery, Sedburgh, July 2003
• Unravelling, Fountain’s Abbey, Ripon as part of the Nidderdale Festival, July 2003
• Cover Story, Cajoba, Birkenhead with ‘Treadmill, April 2002.
• Entitlement, Woodford Lodge, Winsford, Cheshire, June- July 2002.
• Gardening Gloves ,Norton Priory, Cheshire, March 2002
• A Work of Art in itself, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, with Threadmill , Nov 2001 – Jan 2002
• Recreating Cheshire, Woodford Lodge, Winsford, Cheshire, May 2001
• Dukes Oak Open , Cheshire, April 2001
• Cheshire Open Studios, September 2000
• Unearthed, Norton Priory Museum, Cheshire with Treadmill June-July 2000
• Flexible III , British venue, Helmshore Textile Museum pan-European exhibition for the Millennium 1999-2000.
• Strands of Time, Stockport Art Gallery with Threadmill , Oct 1999.
• Towards the Twenty First Century, Voirrey’s Embroidery Centre, Brimstage, Wirral for ‘World of Embroidery’ Magazine, Sept 1999;
• Wildlife Art, Black Sheep Gallery, Hawarden Cheshire. April 1999;
• Beyond The Thread, Howarth Gallery, Accrington, with Threadmill, Apri1 1999;
• Dukes Oak Art Open Cheshire, (Commended) March 1999;
• Feltair International Open Air Felt Exhibition Plymouth, March 1999;
• Anchor Award for Modern European Embroidery 1996/97, and 1998/99;
• Unilever Environmental Art Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead October 1998
Published written work
• Review in LAN on-line journal 38 Aug 2006 www.landartnet.org/journal
• Feature, Embroidery Magazine ,October 1999
• Project report, ‘Echoes’ International Felting Association Magazine, January 2004
Images on Web
• www.art-connections.org.uk
• www.embroiderersguild.com
• www.sue.harrison.co.uk