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| My
Work ~ I have a fascination with living things and natural form. For me, willow has become a medium for an interaction with nature that is deeply personal. Using willow, birch, heather, bog myrtle and many other locally grown woods, my work ranges form traditional to organic sculptural forms. |
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Born
~ Singapore 1962 Education ~ Canterbury College of Art Foundation ~1979 Cardiff College of Art ~ 1980 Professional member of Visual Arts Scotland ~ 1999 Member of Contemporary Applied Arts. London ~ 2000 Lizzie's first trip to Japan, self- funded ~ April 2007 |
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| Awards
~ Appointed Specialist Advisor for Crafts Scottish Arts Council ~ 2009 Best Stand Award, (2008) Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey Art & Craft Marketing Grant, Dumfries & Galloway Council ~ 2007 Creative Development Award, Scottish Arts Council ~ 2007 Awarded 'Best in Show' by Grand Designs Magazine at Origin, London. ~ 2006 Outward Mission to New York, UK Trade and Investment ~ 2006 'Talent Around Britain' BBC Homes and Antiques ~ 2004 Professional Development Grant, Scottish Arts Council ~ 2004 Artist Residency, Cove Park, Argyll ~ 2004 Arts and Crafts Marketing Grant Dumfries and Galloway Council ~ 2003 The Scottish Gallery Award, Visual Arts Scotland ~ 1999. The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers ~ 1997 The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers ~ 1992 Public Collections ~ National Museums Scotland. (2008) Priors Court School, Reading. The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh. The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. The Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. |
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Selected Past Exhibitions ~ 2010 .. 'Spring Fling' Open Studio event in Dumfries & Galloway 'COLLECT' The Saatchi Gallery, London 'The 10th Wave III' Browngrotta Arts, Wilton Connecticut U.S.A. 'Solo Exhibition' Left Bank Gallery, Tarland, Aberdeenshire 2009 .. 'Wood, Willow and Paper' The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. 'Working the Willows' Musgrove Willows, Somerset. 'Subtlety and Beauty' Gallerytop, Derbyshire. 'Celtic Connections' The Harley Gallery Shop, Nottinghamshire. 'Spirit of Air' Solo and touring exhibition with publication. Funded by Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries and The City Art Centre, Edinburgh. 'Contemporary Craft Fair' Bovey Tracey. 'The 10th Wave III' Browngrotta Arts, Connecticut, U.S.A. 2008 .. European Baskets National Craft Museum, Kilkenny Ireland, and touring. Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey. 'Spring into Action' Mathew Burt Showroom Hindon, Salisbury. The Gallery at Waterperry, Oxford. 2007 .. 'East Weaves West', Basketry form Japan and Britain, The Collins Gallery, Glasgow (and touring) 'Origin', Somerset House, London 'Rapture', The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 'Organic' ~Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford 'Seeing Dragons in the Clouds' ~ The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. (touring) 'Urban Field' ~ Contemporary Applied Arts, Percy Street, London. 'The Cutting Edge' ~ Scotland's Contemporary Crafts, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. (then touring) Demonstration of work at Hawthornden Court, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. 'Collect' at the V & A, London. (demonstrating in the Japan Gallery) 2006 .. 'Bonds', Designs Gallery, Castle Douglas. 'SOFA' Chicago, represented by Browngrotta Arts. 'Origin: The London Craft Fair 2006', Somerset House, London. 'Spring Fling', Galloway Open Workshop Weekend. 'Collect' at the V & A, London. (Flow Gallery) 2005 .. 'Spring Fling', Galloway Open Workshop Weekend. 'Christmas Present', Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. 'Chelsea Crafts Fair', Old Town Hall, Chelsea. The Scottish Gallery at Greywalls, Gullane. 'Contemporary Crafts', The Medici Gallery, London. 'Chelsea Flower Show', Sculpture in The Boreal Garden. 'Spirit of Liberty', Libertys, London. 'Collect' at the V & A, London. (Flow Gallery) 2004 .. 'Focus', Contemporary Applied Arts, London. The Affordable Art Fair, London. 2003 .. The Hub, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. 2002 .. Weaving Stories, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh. Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby's, London 2001 .. The Unexpected, Sotheby's, New York. The Basket Show, Furniture Co, New York. The Garden Show, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. |
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Reviews and Press Coverage ~ 2003 Sunday Telegraph Magazine, March 30th 2002 Crafts, September 2001 Daily Telegraph, May 12th 2001 Vogue, February 2001 Country Life, February 15th 2001 World of Interiors, February 2000 Fibrearts, USA, January 1999 Glasgow Herald Magazine |
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