FIBRE.ART.WALES - artists
ALISON MERCER - CV
1998-00 Manchester Metropolitan University - M.A. Textiles
2000-02 University of Wales - P.G.C.E
1998-99 Manchester Metropolitan University - Post Graduate Diploma- Textiles
1985-98 Manchester Metropolitan University- B.A. (Commendation); Contemporary Craft
2007 London college of Printing - Award in Design Book Structures
2006 Coleg Menai - Initial Certificate in Adult Learning
Clinical Training:
2008 Substance Misuse Training Level 2
2008 Child Protection Strategy Level 2
2008 North Wales Perinatal strategy award
2008 NHS Wales Induction Training
Awards:
2008-10 SAFLE Research Award; Artist In Residence
2010 Wales Arts International Grant
2009 Embroiderers Guild Award; Finalist
2001 Welsh Artist of the Year; Craft
1996 European Embroidery Awards; Finalist
1994 Welsh Fashion Awards; Finalist
1994 Cancer Research Campaign Card Design Competition; Finalist
1994 Bookworks; Glyn Vivian Gallery artists books prize; Commendation
1990 Welsh Open Design Competition; Special Design Award
1989 The Lynnette De Denn Design for Embroidery Award
1988 The Royal Society of Arts Design Bursary; 1st prize jewellery section
Collections:
2010 Ceredigion Museum Public Collection
2010 Betsy Cadwaladr University Health Board Public collection
2010 Conwy Council Public collection
2007 Coleg Menai; Public Collection;
2006 Gwynedd Council Public Collection; Bangor museum and Art Gallery
1997 Cardiff Bay Arts Trust; Bute Town History and Art Centre, Cardiff
Commissions:
2010 Welsh Arts Council; Arts In Health and Wellbeing Conference presentation
2010 `Surestart` Conwy Council and Betsy Cadwaladr Trust
2008-10 Betsy Cadwaladr Health Board; Community projects include Corun I Sawdl,
Baby Clinics in Benllech, Llanberis, Llanerchymedd, Surestart, Twf, SANDS, Outpatients
Clinics in Beaumaris, Dolgellau Birth Centre. CAMHS. In the hospital Transfer Lounge,
Paediatric clinic, Maternity ward at Ysbyty Gwynedd
2008 Llanfairpwll School ;Ynys Mon
2001- 02 Cardiff City Council; Art In Schools project. Norweigian Church Cardiff Bay.
2001 Cardiff City Hall; Special schools commission
2000 Cardiff City Hall; Ifor Bach; commission.
1997 Wepre Country Park; FlintshireCommission
1997 Ysgol Gyfyn Llangefni; Textile Commission.
1997 Ysgol Llanddulas; Colwyn Bay Textile Commission
Exhibitions:
2011 Fiberart International;San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design; California.USA October-January
2011 Fiberart International; Memorial Art Gallery Rochester, New York USA April-July
2010 WAH Center, New York; Book Art Exhibition October 2010
2010 Buzzer 30 Gallery; Long Island City New York. `Curators` Raising Humans; September
2010 Fiberart International; Pittsburgh Centre for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh, Center for the Arts Pittsburgh USA April - August 2010
2010 Ruthin Library Arts Centre; Journeys FAW travelling exhibition January-March
2010 Beverley Museum and Art Gallery; Yorkshire; FAW Fibre Voices. March-May
2009 Ceredigion Museum and Art Gallery; FAW; Fibre Voices November/December
2009 National Eisteddfod, Art and Craft Pavilion Bala, North Wales (Selected exhibitor)
2009 Welsh Artist Of the Year (Selected exhibition) St Davids Hall Cardiff May-July 2009
2009 Green Mountain College Vermont USA `Homelands` FAW October- December
2009 21st Century Stitchers, Riverside Gallery Town Hall Richmond 1st May- 21st July
A selected exhibition profiling the most inventive talent today.
Curated by the Embroiderers Guild
2009 Llantarnum Grange Arts Centre Cwmbran `Ffibr` Form and Fusion (selected Exhibition)
2009 Ucheldre Arts Centre Holyhead Fibre Voices June/ July 2009
Fibre Art Wales 10 year Birthday exhibition
2009 Rhondda Heritage Park FAW `Journeys` 2009
2008-09 Fibre Essence Gallery, Vancouver `Through the Looking Glass` (Juried exhibition) Travelling Canada until August 2009
2008 Bangor Museum and Art Gallery `Arts in Health and Wellbeing at Ysbyty Gwynedd`
2008 Welsh Artist Of the Year (Selected exhibition) St Davids Hall Cardiff June 2008
2008 Banbury Museum Art Gallery `Journeys` Fibre Art Wales 2008
2008 World Trade Centre Boston USA `Craft Boston` Selected exhibitor
2007 Chelsea Designer Crafts; Chelsea Town Hall. London
2007 The John Holden Gallery; `Artists Books` Manchester
2006 Oriel Davies Open `Undercover` Selected exhibition
2005 Welsh Artist of the Year, Stuttgart, Germany
2005 Art and Craft Pavilion, National Eisteddfod, Bangor, North Wales
2005 ORIGINS - Fibre.Art.Wales, Crafts Council of Ireland National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.
2004-06 ORIGINS, F.A.W UK touring exhibition, The Knitting & Stitching Show, London
2004 'FIBRE.ART.WALES In IRELAND', Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
2004 'Celebrating Ten - Dethlu Deg', Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Mid Wales
2004-06 HOMELANDS, F.A.W UK touring exhibition
2001-05 Welsh Artist Of The Year. St Davids Hall Cardiff
2001-03 'Fibre Visions', F.A.W UK touring exhibition
2001 Art Of The Stitch, The Mall Galleries, London
2000 The Righton Gallery, Manchester
1997 Euro Art Fair; Madrid, Spain
1997 European woman's Textile Exhibition; Bosjokloster Castle, Sweden
1996-04 The Knit and Stitch show, London, Dublin and Harrogate
1995 Centre Permanent D'Artesania, Barcelona, Spain
1995 Mexicana; Model House; South Wales
1994 Premier Collections; Paris, France
1994 Embroiders Guild exhibition; The Collins Gallery, Glasgow
1994 Art of the Stitch; Commonwealth Institute, London
1994 Festival D'ete, De Nantes; France
1990-98 The Devon Guild Of Craftsman
1993-98 The 62` Group Of Textile Artists.
1994-97 The Makers Guild In Wales
1994-97 New Fibre Art
1993-98 Design Gap; Harrogate Design Fair, NEC Gift Show, Top Drawer London
1990 Gawthorp Hall; Embroiderers Guild Open Exhibition.
1988 The Royal Society of Arts Design Bursaries; London
1988 New Designers; London
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Ucheldre Arts Centre Holyhead; June/ July 2011
2010 Bangor Museum and Art Gallery `Creative Voices 2` April/June 2010
2010 Galeri Caernarfon; `Fecund Thoughts`; May/june 2010
2009 Senedd Welsh Assembly Cardiff `Alison Mercer Artist In Residence;
2009 Oriel Pendeitch ,Cearnarfon `Creative Voices` Artist In Residence at Ysbyty Gwynedd 2009
2008 Alsager Gallery Manchester Met University `Penetration`
2006 `The Nightingale Sings For No-One But Herself` Bangor Museum;
2006 Context Gallery; Cardiff Bay;
2005 A Stitched Inheritance, Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff ;
1993 Ruthin Craft Centre; Studio 8
1993 Rhyl Library Gallery
Publications:
2010 Fiberart International; Exhibition of contemporary Fiber Art Catalogue
2010 Heads of the Valleys Public Art Working Group; Visual Culture of the Valleys
2010 Embroidery Magazine; March/April
2010 Welsh Arts Council; Welsh Assembly Cardiff; Arts in Health and Wellbeing strategy for Wales; Contributed to document and conference.
2009 Fibre Art Wales; 10 ; Celebrating 10 years of FAW
2009 Embroidery Artist In Residence March/ April/ May/ June
2008 B.B.C. Small Film Project with Gwennan Pennant-Jones.
2008 Embroidery Review of Penetration May/June
2008 `Tonic` NHS Wales Trust Magazine
2008 Embroidery; anuary/ May/ June
2006 The Nightingale Sings; Alison Mercer Published Catalogue
2006 Undercover; Catalogue; Oriel Davies Gallery
2005 The Visit I.T V 1 Wales 2005
2005 Taliesin (summer)
2004 HOMELANDS, Fibre.Art.Wales, Publication
1997 Artists Magazine; Front cover Commission.
1997 Let`s Look` Relay publications art in the curriculum. Book and Commission
1988 Crafts;CraftsCouncilMagazine
Magazine articles/reviews include:
Artists Newsletter, Embroidery, Crafts, Taliesin, ETN newsletter, Pittsburgue Guild of Arts
Residencies:
2010 Art Residency; `Surestart` Conwy Council and Betsy Cadwaladr Trust
200810 Artist In Residence at Ysbyty Gwynedd; Community projects include Corun I Sawdl,
Baby Clinics in Benllech, Llanberis, Llanerchymedd, Surestart, Twf, SANDS, Outpatients
Clinics in Beaumaris, Dolgellau Birth Centre. CAMHS. In the hospital Transfer Lounge,
Peadiatric clinic, Maternity ward at Ysbyty Gwynedd
2008 Llanfairpwll School; Artist In Residence;
2001-02Cardiff City Council; Residency and Commission; Art In Schools project. Norweigian Church Cardiff Bay.
2001 Cardiff City Hall; Special schools project and residency
2000 Cardiff City Hall; Ifor Bach; Residency and commission.
1997 Wepre Country Park; Commission and Residency; Flintshire
1997 Ysgol Gyfyn Llangefni; Textile Residency and Commission.
1997 Ysgol Llanddulas; Colwyn Bay Textile Residency and Commission
1992 Garden Festival Wales; Artist In residence
1991-94 Artist in Residence; Ucheldre Centre Holyhead
1992-08 Artist In residence; 50 schools in Wales and Britain
1986-88 Bucks Rock Theatre, Connecticut, USA - costume designer in residence
Teaching:
2010 Coleg Menai; Lecturer in Textiles and Fashion; Fda Degree; WJEC Art
Foundation; National Diploma in Design.
2010 Bangor University; Mentor and Visiting Lecturer; Postgraduate Teacher
Training Course in Art And Design
2010 Mind Cymru; Book making workshops; Bangor Museum and art Gallery
2010 Criw Celf; Art Master classes for young artists in Gwynedd; Gwynedd Council
2010 Galeri Caernarfon; Community textile and bookmaking workshops.
2010 Embroiderers Guild- Hampton Court Palace; Masterclass Fibre Art Workshops
2010 Betsi Cadwaldr University Health Board; Manager and Co-ordinator of Facilitated Art
projects, Workshops, exhibitions, community commissions and conferences within the trust.
1997-09 Plas Tan Y Bwlch; Visiting Lecturer in Fibre Arts Teaching Masterclass
1996-09 Coleg Menai; Applied Arts Co Coordinator for; W.J.E.C. Art Foundation;
Applied Arts coordinator year 1+2; Foundation Degree;
2004-08 Coleg Menai Applied Arts co-ordinator for National Diploma In Design
1997-08 Bangor University; Visiting lecturer Training Course in Art And Design
1997-08 Masterclass Textile Courses In The Community; Self- Initiated Projects.
List of workshops:
Stitch an ancestor (one day workshop)
Students will be encouraged to create an object, surface or structure that encompasses a memory. This could be created from a wide variety of materials and old photographs students bring.
Memory book structures (one or two day workshop)
Do you have a memory you want to bring to life? This is an opportunity to create a book object that you can pour your thoughts and ideas into. Students will be encouraged to use a wide variety of printing processes and stitch will be used to bind it all together.
Make a stitched sketchbook; (A one day workshop).
Students will make a finished stitched sketchbook from a variety of papers and fabrics using stitch to bind and decorate the book.
Creating dynamic sketchbook pages. (A one day workshop).
Students will explore drawing, materials, pull- outs, pop- ups and layouts, composition, colour, texture, print, layering stitch, and personal thoughts and ideas to produce evocative and personal pages.
Creating dynamic textile surfaces. (A one day workshop).
Students will explore composition, colour, texture, surface manipulation, print, layering stitch, and use of motif and surface pattern to produce effective striking textile work.
Stitched Collage using found objects and ephemera; (A one day workshop).
Students will compose and stitch evocative and personal collage compositions using a wide materials vocabulary.
Creative drawing for embroidery; (A one day workshop).
Exploration and experimentation using a variety of textural surfaces and drawing materials. Colour materials will also be used to stitch and draw from observation.
Using Colour inventively; (A one or two day workshop).
Learn to organise and use colour pallets, man made colour and found colour effectively through understanding basic principles in colour terminology.
Creating altered books;( A one or two day workshop).
Create an original and personal altered book utilising the original book in a variety of different ways, using additional colour and texture with an imput of thread and stitch.
Indigo Dying; (a one day workshop).
Using resist processes and printing create a dynamic indigo surface for embroidery.
Papermaking for embroidery; (a one day workshop).
Students will learn how to make paper with found leaves and flowers, ephemera. Create textured and coloured surfaces to make exclusive handmade paper suitable for embroidery or collage work.
Creative Bookbinding For Embroidery (one or two day course)
This is a one or two day course exploring traditional stitched bookbinding to create inventive and thought provoking artifacts.
Creating 3d sketchbooks for fibre artists (one day workshop)
Exploring book structures pull outs and concertinas. Development of personal ideas through stitch and print
Stitch Expression (one day course)
Exploration of a variety of colours, threads, drawing and found objects to make intellectual decisions.
Resist Dying part 1 and part 2; (A one or two day workshop)
Students will be introduced to a variety of processes such as, laminated paper batik, gutta resist and wax resist cold and hot, cold wax printing, indigo dip dying.
All workshops are from 10-4 and the charge is £170. This includes specialist equipment; Materials are additional costs and can be purchased from the tutor.
A charge for transport is additional and set at 30p per mile
Please contact;
Alison mercer
alisonmercer@btinternet.com
www.alisonmercer.com
www.fibreartwales.org
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