TERRY DONALDSON TEXTILE ARTIST
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Exhibitions & CV

Group exhibitions

2024 - Unravelling Textile Traditions - Consuo - Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
2024 - Continuum@Oxmarket - Continuum - Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
2023 - Voices in Cloth - The Old Fire Station Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2023 - Reflections of South Hill Park - Consuo - South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
2023 - Surface:Tension - Diversity - Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames
​2022 - MA Grad show online, UCA, Farnham 
2022 - MA graduate show - Foyer Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
2021 - EDGE - Diversity - Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis
2019 - EDGE - Diversity - Chelsea Waterside Artspace, Grosvenor Waterside, Gatliff Road, London SW1
2018 - On the Edge - Diversity - The Capitol, Horsham, West Sussex
2017 - TEN - Diversity - The Old Fire Station Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2016 - Narrative Thread - Diversity - The Robert Phillips Gallery, Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre, Walton-on-Thames

selective exhibitions

My work has been selected for the following juried exhibitions:
Fragmentation, a Contemporary Quilt exhibition, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Online 2020 and other venues 2021/2022 (Unseen Forces: Fragmentation)

The Fifth China Patchwork Creative Design Competition and International Patchwork Seminar, Kegiao, China 2019 (part of a visiting UK exhibition) (Shingle Garden)
Wide Horizons VI, a SAQA Europe and Middle East touring exhibition, 24th European Patchwork Meeting, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and other venues 2018/2019 (Black across the Sun II)
Elements, a Contemporary Quilt exhibition, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmimgham 2015 and other venues 2015/2016 (Iron)
Grosvenor Shows Spring Quilt Fairs and Quilts UK, Malvern 2015 - Full Circle (a solo retrospective of 14 works)

Dislocation, a Contemporary Quilt exhibition, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmimgham 2014 and other venues 2014/2015 (Black Across the Sun)
Quilts of Great Britain at The Ailsa Craig Community Quilt Festival, Ontario, Canada 19th - 24th May 2014 (Full Circle)
Water Water, a Contemporary Quilt exhibition, The Old Fire Station Gallery, Henley on Thames November 2013 (Early Morning)
Contemporary Quilt Horizons exhibition, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham 2013 and other venues 2013/2014 (Sussex Coast)
CQ@10 Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham 2012 and other venues 2012/2013 (All that Remains)
QGBI Region 3 By the Sea exhibition at Quilt Museum and Gallery, York 2012 (Early Morning)
Pieced Patterns travelling exhibition with ICHF Creative Stitches shows 2012/2013 (Tropical Heat)
Summer in the Park travelling exhibition  at Rufford Craft Centre, Notts and with ICHF Creative Stitches Shows 2011/2012 (Sheffield Park - Early Summer)

AWards

2022 - Textile Society Postgraduate student bursary
I have won the following awards at major national quilt shows:
2020 - Shortlisted - Art Quilts Category at the Festival of Quilts, Online (Unseen Forces: Fragmentation)

2015 - Judge's Choice, Pictorial Category at the Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham (Sussex Coast)
2015 - 3rd place in Theme Challenge (Learn, Create, Inspire ...) National Quilt Championships, Sandown (Shingle Garden)
2014 - Judge's Merit at the National Quilt Championships, Sandown (Sussex Coast)
2013 - Highly Commended in the Guilds Challenge at the Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham (Full Circle)
2013 - Overall Champion, 1st place Art Quilt and Winner in Theme Challenge at the National Quilt Championships, Sandown (All that Remains II)
2012 - Runner up in the Guilds Challenge at the Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham (West Wittering)
2010 - Judge's Merit at the National Quilt Championships, Sandown (Tropical Heat)
2008 - 1st place Art Quilt at the National Quilt Championships, Sandown (A Journey)

publications

2023 - Consuo - Reflections of South Hill Park; exhibition catalogue, foreword by Professor Lesley Millar
2018 - Meet the Artist: Terry Donaldson Today's Quilter Issue 43 December 2018 pp72-75

EDUCATION

2022                     MA Textiles, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
2005                     Level 4 Certificate Teaching Adults, Yateley School
2004                     City & Guilds Patchwork & Quilting Part 2, East Berks College, Windsor
1997                     City & Guilds Patchwork & Quilting Part 1, Surrey Institute of Adult Education

memberships

The Quilters Guild of the British Isles
Contemporary Quilt
Diversity
Voices in Cloth
Consuo 
consuotextiles.co.uk
Continuum craftcontinuum.com


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