Susan Chapman
Stitched Textiles

Profile

Susan started out as a computer software engineer and mathematician  She came to patchwork and quilting while living in america with her family as a result of her husband’s career.  On return she completed City and Guilds parts 1 & 2 in Patchwork and Quilting with Joan York and the Diploma in Stitched Textiles at Windsor with Jan Beaney, Jean Litttlejohn and Ros Hills. 

She now works as a freelance tutor and lecturer as well as teaching the City and Guilds courses in Patchwork and Quilting at Eastleigh College in Hampshire.  She exhibits with three different contemporary textile art groups.  Her work is mainly concerned with issues relating to women, her recent pieces have considered ageing, and also woman’s struggle to fit being head cook and bottle washer together with being superwoman into each day. 

For the last couple of years she has been experimenting with sculptural forms, mainly standing figures but currently is working on some soft pieces again.  She plans to investigate the effect of the media on our lives for her next body of work, although at the moment she is working on a series of pieces inspired by the people of Pompeii, having visited Italy as a result of winning the Charles Henry Foyle award for stitched textiles.

Qualifications

2003 Diploma HE Stitched textiles, with distinction
2003 Winner, Charles Henry Foyle Stitch Textiles Award, Redditch
2000 City and Guilds Patchwork Part 2
1998 City and Guilds Adult teaching
1996 City and Guilds Patchwork Part 1
1967 BSc Technological Mathematics

Memberships

Licentiate of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
Member of Studio21, ByDesign, and Fibre Art Wales
Contemporary Quilt, Quilter’s Guild U.K.
Embroiderer’s guild.

Exhibitions

2008

2008 ‘Bodies of Evidence’ Festival of Quilts and Knit and Stitch shows
2008  CRAFTBOSTON, Members of Fibre Art Wales, Boston USA
2008  ‘Contemporary Stitch’ Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes
2008  ‘The Thin Blue Line’ Contemporary Quilt, Dudley

2007

2007 ‘In Relief’, Studio21, Knit & Stitch Shows, N.E.C. , London, Dublin &  Harrogate
2007 ‘Sight, Sense and Sound’, Forest Arts, New Milton, Hants
2007 ‘Chiaroscuro’, ByDesign, Quiltfest Llangollen, Coiwslip Workshops Launceston
2007 ‘Making Tracks’ Fibre Art Wales

2006

2006 ‘Contemporary Stitch’ Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes
2006 ‘Chiaroscuro’, ByDesign, Knit & Stitch Shows, N.E.C. , London &  Harrogate
2006  ‘Signature’, Zero3, Chequer Mead,  East Grinstead & Highcliffe Castle
2006 ‘Letting Go of Matisse’, Explorations, St. Barbe, Lymington

2005

2005 ‘Chiaroscuro’, ByDesign, Alsace
2005  ‘As Nature Intended?’ ByDesign, Loch Lomond & Bury St Edmonds
2005 ‘On The Castle – At the Castle’, Explorations, Highcliffe Castle
2005 ‘As Nature Intended?’ ByDesign,  Hilliers Arboretum, Hampshire

2004

2004 ‘Off The Wall’ Delta Studios, Larbert, Scotland
2004 ‘As Nature Intended?’ ByDesign, Cowslip Workshops, Launceston
2004 ‘Outstretched’, Studio21, Festival of Quilts, N.E.C.
2004 ‘As Nature Intended?’ ByDesign, Quiltfest111, Llangollen

2003

2003 ‘Metamorphosis’ Charles Henry Foyle, Needle Museum,   Redditch
2003 ‘As Nature Intended?’ ByDesign, Festival of Quilts, N.E.C.
2003 ‘Headway’ Studio21, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford,

Contact

Tel: 02380 260220 - 078 555 898 74
Email: susan@susanchapman.com
Website: www.susanchapman.com

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