sue crook LSDC

Profile

Sue has always enjoyed textiles. From a very early age she has sewn, designing and constructing her own clothes as a teenager. Creative activities took a back seat while raising a family and earning a living in a senior management position in the Chemical Industry. Redundancy in 2002 released her to be creative again and she has had, she says, a whale of a time ever since!

Her work is mainly in textiles with some mixed media with a variety of threads using machine and hand stitching also an embellisher. She also enjoys photography and printmaking.  Sue prefers to work with natural fibres, dyeing her fabric and thread to achieve the desired effect. Layered surfaces, built up paper on billboards, flaking paint and rust all give her inspiration. She investigates what went before, what is hidden and what revealed. More recently, since moving to the countryside, her local environment has also inspired some landscapes and nature studies.

Sue teaches locally at Young Embroiderers (Young Textile Artists, Basingstoke), gives workshops and lectures. 

Qualifications

Art Access Foundation Course 2004
Diploma in Higher Education, Stitched Textiles 2007

Exhibitions

2006
Hampshire Artists Open Studios 2006
The Art of Words, Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke, October 2006

2008
Art Van Go Studio, Knebworth July 2008
Hampshire Artists Open Studios August 2008
South Hill Park, Bracknell, November 2008

2009
Petworth House Textile Fair, May 2009
Hampshire Open Studios, August 2009
HapticArt “On the Edge” Sunbury Embroidery Gallery, September 2009

2010
National Needlework Archive, Greenham Common, January 2010
Landmark Contemporary Textile Fair, Teddington, March 2010
West Berkshire Open Studios, Headley, nr. Newbury, May 2010
Black Swan Gallery, Frome, September/October 2010
Harvest Exhibition, St Paul's Church, Ashford Hill, Hampshire, October 2010

2011
Fountain Gallery, East Molesey, January 2011
National Needlework Archive, Greenham Common, April 2011
West Berkshire Open Studios, Headley, near Newbury, May 2011

Memberships

Embroiderers’ Guild (Basingstoke Branch)
Licentiate of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
HapticArt
Frayed Edges

Contact

Email: sulphursue@yahoo.co.uk

Website: www.suecrook.com