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EDUCATION
2001 – 2002
LOCN Digital Fine Art, Tower Hamlets college, London.
1999 – 2000
Artists in Education, Essex.
1989 – 1992
BA Fine Art Textiles degree, Goldsmiths College, London.
1987 – 1989
BTEC + Foundation in General Art and Design, Southampton Institute of Higher Education, Hampshire.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Glass and Textiles – CAA celebrates it’s 75th Year, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open House, London
2022
Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open House, London
2021
Focus/21, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, Contemporary Applied Arts gallery for London Design Festival.
Collect, International Art Fair for International Craft and Design, Design Nation, (virtual) in partnership with Artsy.
2020
Present and Collect – Shine, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
20 makers 20 Objects, Design Nation celebrates signature style (virtual).
2019
RWA 167 Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK.
Weave It, Decorating Dissidence, Stour Space, London, UK.
Construct, The 62 Group, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Yorkshire, UK.
The Future of Craft, London Craft Week, Bargehouse, London, UK.
2018
Present and Collect, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
International Textile Printing, Gallerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany.
London Craft Week, Cavaliero Finn, London, UK.
Colour Theory, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
2017
Marks and Tools, London Craft Week, Design Nation, Oxo Tower Gallery, London, UK.
2016
Making in Colour, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK.
Decorex, Design Nation, Syon Park, London, UK.
Knitting and Stitch , Artists Galleries (solo), Olympia, London, UK.
Making Space, The 62 Group, The Silk Museum, Macclesfield, UK.
Stroud International Textile Festival, The Malthouse, Stroud, UK.
Contemporary Textiles, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, UK.
2015
The Crafted City, London Craft Week, Contemporary Applied Arts gallery, London, UK.
Thirty for Thirty, Buro Four, exhibition and book, UK.
Textile works and Prints (two woman show), Jane Newbery, Dulwich Village, London, UK.
2014
Focus on Print, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, UK.
Open Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK.
2013
Contemporary Print Fair, The Sydney Cooper Gallery and The Print Block, Canterbury, UK.
British Textile Art: 62@50, The 62 Group of Textile Artist’s 50th Anniversary, Koyo Gallery, Showa Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan.
2012
62 at 50, The 62 Group, 50th anniversary, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK.
Collect, International Art Fair for International Craft and Design, Saatchi Gallery, London, Contemporary Applied Arts, UK.
Present Collectables, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
2011
Folkestone Triennial, Contemporary Applied Arts, Folkestone, UK.
Bicentenary Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK.
2010
Bending More Lines, The 62 Group, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands and the Collins Gallery, Glasgow UK.
A Living Space; curated by Kit Kemp, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
2008
Tea’s Up, Textile focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
2004
Of Material Concern, The 62 Group, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK.
2003
Urban Interiors, The Commonwealth Institute, London, UK.
Decorex, Design Nation, The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London, UK.
2002
Red, The 62 Group, 40th anniversary (touring), Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk;
Beverly Art Gallery, East Yorkshire;
Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum, Northern Ireland;
Upfront Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria;
Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK.
In Retrospect, 62 Group, Knitting and Stitching shows, Alexandra Palace, London; Dublin; Harrogate, UK.
Michelle House, New Work, (solo), Bankfield Museum, Halifax, UK.
2001
SOFA, with Contemporary Applied Arts, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA.
Making an Impression, Bankfield Museum, Halifax, UK.
2000
Out of the Garden, The 62 group, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK.
Two-woman show, textiles and photography, Forum Fabricum, Lodz, Poland.
1999
On and Off the Wall, The 62 group, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Kent (touring to Edinburgh), UK.
Textile Focus, Contemporary Applied arts, London, UK.
1998
Makers Choice, Visual Arts Trust (touring), The Gallery, Telford, UK.
Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, UK.
The Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, UK.
The Gateway and SADA Galleries, Shrewsbury, UK.
Decorative Arts Today, Bonhams, London , UK.
1997
Contemporary Textile Show, Contemporary Arts Society Projects, BUPA House, London, UK.
Chelsea Craft Fair, Crafts Council, Chelsea, London.
Large-scale textiles – Dawn Dupree and Michelle House, two-woman show, Walford Mill Craft Centre, Dorset, UK.
AWARDS
1999
London Arts Board, grant.
1996
Setting-Up Grant, Crafts Council.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Taylor Bennett LLP for Adobe
The British Academy – art collection,
Marylebone Hotel,
Ham Yard Hotel (Firmdale Hotels),
Peter Jones department store (Sloane Square),
Broomfield Hospital,
Hove Polyclinic (South Downs NHS Trust),
Paintings in Hospitals,
Davis Polk Wardwell (Paris),
Kysen Design,
Logica,
Myhotel Bloomsbury,
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS
2021
Trendwatch, Homes and Interiors Scotland, Jan/Feb.
Weave It, by Decorating Dissidence, an accompanying book to the ‘Weave It’ exhibition which celebrated 100 years of Bauhaus.
2017
Something From Nothing, a photography project featuring ten artists and makers by Jhy Turley, hand-bound book, limited edition of 30.
2015
Thirty for Thirty, Buro Four, book celebrating 30th anniversary (art competition) with Thirty commissioned artists.
2012
Radical Thread: 1962-2012, Lesley Millar, book celebrating the 62 Group at 50.
Dyeing and Screen-printing on Textiles, Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor, re-printed 2012.
2004
Of Material Concern, Catalogue, The 62 Group.
2003
Dyeing and Screen-printing on Textiles, Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor.
2002
Red, catalogue, The 62 Group.
How to Spend it, Financial Times (Weekend), Feb.
Crafts Magazine – Review of solo show (Bankfield Museum), Sept-Oct.
2001
Image Conscious, Telegraph Magazine – (Directory).
1999
Screen Play, IDFX, Oct.
Commissions, Crafts Magazine, Jan/Feb.
1998
New British Design 1998, Peta Levi (Mitchell Beazley).
1997
Lookout, Crafts Magazine.
MEMBERSHIPS
Contemporary Applied Arts, Design Nation (Fellow) , The 62 Group of textile artists and Crafts Council Directory.