FIBRE.ART.WALES - artists

Michelle Griffiths - CV

1988 University College Cardiff B.Mus (hons) David Lloyd Prize
1989 University College Cardiff PGCE Secondary Education (Music) Dame Oliver Wheeler Prize

Awards:
2001 Embroiderers' Guild Mature Scholar
2005 Wales Arts International research grant to support study tour of Japan May/June 2005

Exhibitions:
2010 Journeys, Ruthin and Buckley Library Galleries, North Wales, February - March
2009 Fibre Voices, Fibre Art Wales 10th Birthday exhibition, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, 27th November - 16th January 2010.
2009 Homelands, Green Mountain College, Vermont, USA. 12th October - 3rd November
2009 Journeys, RHP, Rhondda Cynnon Taff, 25 September - 8 November
2009 Fibre Voices, Fibre Art Wales 10th Birthday exhibition, Ucheldre Centre, Mill Bank, Holyhead, Angelsey North Wales. 20th June- 19th July.
2006 "Scholar" in conjunction with "Art of the Stitch" Invited artist Embroiderers' Guild UK Touring Exhibition
2006 "Cross Pollination" Solo exhibition, Model House Craft & Design Centre, Llantrisant, Cardiff 
2005 "The Shibori Road" at Festival of Quilts, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham    
2005 "Visions In Textiles" European Textile Network juried international exhibition - Izmir, Turkey 
2005 "Shibori Catalysts" Juried international exhibition- Tama Arts University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 ORIGINS - Fibre.Art.Wales, Crafts Council of Ireland National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 
2004  "Committed To Cloth " Exhibition, The Knitting & Stitching Show, London
2004 The Festival Of Quilts, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
2004 Shibori T-shirt installation, Arimatu Shibori Festival, Japan 
2004 'Celebrating Ten - Dethlu Deg', Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Mid Wales
2004-06 "Shibori Rhythm "Solo Exhibition, Voirrey Embroidery Centre,Brimstage Hall, Wirral,Merseyside
2004 Welsh Textile Artists, Celf Cambria Arts,Tregaron,Ceredigion 
2004 World Shibori Network International Exhibition, Australia
2004 "Art Of The Stitch " Embroiderers' Guild UK Touring Exhibition
2004- "Six In The Garden" UK Touring Exhibition:- Exhibition by "SIX " in conjunction with the RHS
2003  "Committed To Cloth" Invited exhibition, Greenstede Gallery, Chequer Mead Arts Centre 
2003 Shibori Rhythm Installation -solo exhibition, Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff
2002 International Shibori Symposium   - Europe, Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Dublin & Harrogate
2001-03 'Fibre Visions', F.A.W UK touring exhibition

Publications: 
Embroidery Magazine Exhibition Review May 2007
"Visions in Textiles" European Textile Network - Front and back cover, own feature 2005
Embroidery Magazine Article May, 2005
Selvedge Magazine Sept/Oct 2004
Artists Newsletter (AN) Sept 2004
Textile Forum Magazine (ETN) June 2004
Textile Forum (ETN) Magazine March 2003
Embroidery Magazine Article Nov 2002
Embroidery Magazine Book Review Nov 2002
Dyeing To Colour by Bailey Curtis Oct 2001
Computer Textile Design Group Front Cover and article Oct 2001
World Of Embroidery Magazine Sept 2001
Artists Newsletter Magazine July 2001
World Of Embroidery Magazine FAW article July 2001
'Fibre Visions' FAW publication, joint editor 2001

Teaching:
Part time tutor in the Visual Art Department at Atlantic College, St Donats Castle, South Wales, specialiseing in surface design.

Societies:
World Shibori Network Representative UK/Ireland | Embroiderers' Guild | Guild of Spinners Weavers & Dyers | FIBRE.ART.WALES. 
   

Workshops -

Michelle holds a PGCE in Secondary Education (Music) for which she was awarded the Dame Oliver Wheeler prize (1989). She spent six years as Head of Music in two schools in Wales. Due to long term illness Michelle retired from full time teaching in 1996. As a result of winning the Embroiderers' Guild Scholarship she now teaches surface design with special reference to the shibori related techniques which she uses in her own work.

Michelle is a part time tutor in the Visual Art Department at Atlantic College, St Donats Castle, South Wales. She also accepts bookings for adult's and children's workshops, as well as for slide lectures on her work or on the work of other contemporary shibori artists. A wide variety of workshops are available not only to universities and colleges but also to primary and secondary schools ranging from 1 to 7 days in length. These can be adapted and arranged to suit specific curriculum and student requirements.

For more information on the above please contact - Michelle