Profile
After many years working with a very limited palette, Gill is currently enjoying and exploring colour. Working with Procion dyes she is investigating colour families, multi layered shibori methods, overdyeing, printing and discharge thus seeking to expand her mark making and collage skills into new areas.
Gill completed the HE Diploma in Stitched Textiles at East Berkshire College where she received a Distinction.
Qualifications
2007 HE Diploma in Stitched Textiles (Distinction)
2004 City and Guilds Creative Embroidery Part II
2002 City and Guilds Creative Embroidery Part I
Memberships
Embroiderer's Guild
Quilter's Guild
HapticArt
Frayed Edges
Oxford Textile Workshop
Exhibitions
2013
March 9th - 10th Landmark Contemporary Textile Fair Teddington
April 3rd - 21st The Robert Phillips Gallery Riverhouse Arts Centre Walton on Thames Surrey
May 4th - 19th West Berkshire Open Studios Headley Nr. Newbury
July 23rd – November 3rd 'Follow the Thread' with Oxford Textile Workshop at Abingdon Museum
2012
February 28th - March 11th Fountain Gallery East Molesey Surrey
March 10th - 11th Landmark Contemporary Textile Fair Teddington
May 5th - May 20th West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios Headley near Newbury
2011
January Fountain Gallery, East Molesey, Surrey
March Landmark Contemporary Textile Fair, Teddington
April The Old Chapel Textile Centre, Newbury, Berks.
May West Berkshire Open Studios, Headley near Newbury
September, Basingstoke Embroiders' Guild, Workshop
Contact
E-mail: gillbanks49@gmail.com