Rozanne Hawksley (nee Pibworth)

Born 18 February 1931 

    

  

Education

1951         Southern College of Art, Portsmouth, NDD                     

1954         Royal College of Art (Fashion School), ARCA

1980         Goldsmiths College, Advanced (Postgraduate) Diploma

 

Career

1954-63      Freelance designer, illustrator, columnist, tutor at Brighton & Guildford art colleges 

1964-67      Designing, teaching and lecturing at the American Needlework Center, Washington DC

1967-68      Designing and teaching at the WHI, London, Brighton and Portsmouth colleges of art.

1968-78      Lecturer and, from 1969, Senior Lecturer, Battersea College of Education

1980-87      Part-time tutor Goldsmiths College; visiting tutor RCA & Slade schools of Art

1991-93      Visiting tutor and external examiner; RCA and Goldsmiths Colleges, London

1987            Established current studio in Pembrokeshire, Wales

 

Solo Exhibitions

2009            Offerings, Ruthin Craft Centre (touring)

2009            In the Beginning: Offerings Reducere, Knitting & Stitching Show, London

2007            The Seamstress & the Sea, Portsmouth City Museum

2006/07      The Seamstress & the Sea, HMS Belfast/Imperial War Museum

2000            " a treaty will be signed sometime today...", Knitting & Stitching Show, London

1998            Rozanne Hawksley, Sessions Gallery, Newport, Pembrokeshire

1997            "a treaty will be signed sometime today...", Mission Gallery, Swansea

1995            The Colour Orange; Of Hope, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington

 

Group Exhibitions

2008-09      In Memoriam: Remembering, Imperial War Museum, London

2008           Stuff:..62 Group, Catmose Gallery, Leicestershire

2007-08      Mechanical Drawing: the schiffli project, Holden Gallery, Manchester (toured)

2007            Flossie and Me, Imperial War Museum, London        

2006           Aspects of Narrative, Ruthin Craft Centre

2006           Witness - Highlights, Imperial War Museum, Manchester

2006            Tracing Threads - 62 Group, Hove Museum and Art Gallery            

2005            SOFA, Chicago, represented by Ruthin Craft Centre

2005            Ceremony, Pump House Gallery, London

2004            Of Sea and Stars, Mission Gallery, Swansea

2004            Of Material Concerns, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

2003            Aspects of Narrative, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Meifod              

2003            Material Spaces, Tulle House, Carlisle

2002            Visual Arts & Crafts Exhibition, National Eisteddfod, St Davids               

2002            Network, Bishop's Palace, St Davids Pembrokeshire

2000            Endings, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2001            10 x 10 (in support of MENCAP), Knitting & Stitching Show, London

1998            The First World War Remembered, Imperial War Museum, London

1998            On the Edge, Knitting & Stitching Show, London           

1994-95       Box, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery

1993            Sculpture at Margam, Margam Park, Port Talbot

1993            Declarations of War, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

1993            No More Heroes Anymore, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

1992            Visual Arts & Crafts Exhibition, National Eisteddfod, Aberystwyth

1992            Out Of the Frame, Crafts Council Touring Exhibition 

1992            International Triennial, National Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland

1991            Network, Bishop's Palace, St Davids, Pembrokeshire

1988            Subversive Stitch, Corner House, Manchester

1988            Death, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

1986            Stitched Textiles for Interiors, Royal Institute of British Architects

1985            62 Group Show, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1980-81       Embroiderers Guild Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute, London

 

Awards           

2006            Arts Council of Wales Exhibition Award 

1992            British Council Travel Award for travel to Poland

1989            Arts Council of Wales Study Grant for travel to Southern Spain

 

Collections and Commissions

Embroiderers Guild, London

Imperial War Museum, London

Lodz Central Museum of Textiles, Poland

Andrew Salmon, Creative Exhibitions

Whitelands College, University of Surrey, Roehampton

Worshipful Company of Weavers for the Bishop of London

 

Image: Rozanne Hawksley in her studio, Photograph by Dewi Tannatt Lloyd. Courtesy of Ruthin Craft Centre