craft & design award competition

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The craft & design magazine www.craftanddesign.net include a makers gallery and information on the forthcoming 'craft&design selected awards 2010'. Pantoufles has been selected for inclusion in this prestigious competition .

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From the 1st January 2010 visitors to this website are invited to vote by following the link. www.craftmaker.co.uk/gillianroyal

Scroll to the bottom of the page, see the blue banner and vote, please.

past exhibitions, competitions & awards

Designer Crafts 2010

SOCIETY OF DESIGNER CRAFTSMEN

The very best of British contemporary crafts at the Mall Galleries, London (SW1) January 2010

Handmade in Britain

The Contemporary Crafts and Design Fair @ The Octagon, Milsom Place, Bath, December 2009

Top drawer with designGAP

Exhibited as part of the designGAP stand at this trade show in Olympia, London. September 2009

New Designers

Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1
July 2009 - Coventry University Stand CA17

Loose Threads

An exhibition bringing together Photography, Fine and Applied Art, including textile artist, Deborah Dutton at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, July 2009.

‘Made with Meaning’ Degree Show

Degree show June 2009 in the Lancaster Gallery, Coventry University School of Art and Design

Fibre Lock

An exhibition of Applied Arts held on March 2009
The Lock - Canal Basin.

Final year Applied Arts exhibition

Alan Berry Building, November 2008 -Coventry University.

‘Festival of Quilts’ exhibition and competition, NEC Birmingham - 2007

Pictorial Quilts section, quilted wall hanging containing hand and machine stitching, appliqué and couching fabric manipulation, - - Commended for use of colour.

‘Patterns of Life’ Open Art exhibition
and competition - 2007

Jane Powell Art Studio, Kenilworth Warwickshire - awarded Highly Commended – joint runner up, -Wall hanging based on a Chinese Lantern flower Experimental piece, design developed from an art project consisting of painted fabric with machine and hand stitching.

‘Stepping out’ - 2007

An exhibition of emerging Contemporary Craft Practitioners – Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.

City and Guilds Diploma,

Gloucestershire College,end of course exhibition - 2006 Cheltenham

------future exhibitions

'Gillian invites you to the following exhibitions and looks forward to meeting you'

Arts Council Exhibition

From Tuesday 26th January to Friday 23rd April 2010 Gillian will be exhibiting at the Arts Council reception area of 82 Granville Street, Birmingham. Work will be available to buy or commissions may be taken.

Contemporary Textile Fair

‘Promoting the Individual’

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Showcasing more than 70 designer makers at the Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, Middlesex, on 13th and 14th March . For further details please go to the landmark website

www.landmarkartscentre.org/

BCTF Harrogate

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The best of British Designer Makers, Hall 1, The Great Yorkshire Show Ground, Harrogate from

Sunday 11th to Tuesday 13th April 2010 for further details go to the bctf website

http://www.bctf.co.uk/

Art, Design and a Taste of Summer

Gillian has been selected as one of ten Emerging Designers at 'Art, Design & A Taste of Summer' exhibition to be held at Blenheim Palace on 29th-31st May 2010. Her work will also be part of a two page feature in the May/June issue of Craft & Design Magazine, who are supporting the event.

for further details go to the living crafts website.

http://www.livingcrafts.co.uk/indexa.htm

Pulse 2010

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Launchpad is a unique showcase for new talented designer makers within the London trade show, Pulse, at Earls Court from

Sunday 6th to Tuesday 8th of June 2010.

for further details go to the Pulse website.

http://www.pulse-london.com/