textile artist
PROFILE
Debbie’s work explores landscape and place and includes mixed media cloths, sculpture, installation and drawing. Her inspiration comes from experiencing and paying attention to her surroundings.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Moments of Being, The Knitting & Stitching Shows, London and Harrogate
2014
Caught by the Tide, Society of Designer Craftsmen Gallery, Rivington Street, London
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
CLEY16: In Norfolk Now: St Margaret’s Church, Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
The Sixty Two Group, Making Space, Macclesfield Silk Museum
SIT Festival, Studio 21, The Sewing Machine Project, Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire
The Archive Project, Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere, Surrey
MEMBERSHIPS
The 62 Group of Textile Artists
Studio 21
The Society of Designer Craftsmen
PUBLICATIONS
TextileArtist.org, Textiles: A Response to Landscape, 2016, ebook: www.textileartist.org
TextileArtist.org, Debbie Lyddon: Art that Inspires, 2016, www.textileartist.org
Rice Freeman-Zachery, Marshscapes Art Quilting Studio, 2015
Alice Fox, Natural Processes in Textile Art: from Rust Dyeing to Found Objects, Batsford, 2015
Julia Triston, Contemporary Applique, Batsford, 2014
TextileArtist.org, Debbie Lyddon: Responding to Environment, www.textileartist.org, 2013
June Barnes, Exploring Dimension in Quilt Art, Basford, 2012
Sandra Meech, Connecting Design to Stitch, Batsford, 2012
Kim Thittichai, Experimental Textiles, Batsford, 2009
Art Education
MA Contemporary Textiles (Distinction), University of Hertfordshire 2009 – 2011
HE Dip Stitched Textiles (Distinction), Bucks New University 2005 – 2008
City and Guilds, Part I and II – Creative Studies, Embroidery, Richmond Community College 2002 – 2005