Rozanne Hawksley (née Pibworth)

Born 18 February 1931 

    

  

Rozanne Hawksley (née Pibworth)

Born in Portsmouth
Currently lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Education

1951         Portsmouth Southern College of Art, Portsmouth, England

1954         Royal College of Art, (School of Fashion), London, England

1980         Goldsmiths College, Post Graduate Textiles, London, England

Textile and fashion designer/maker

Illustrator and writer

External examiner

Part-time tutor, Brighton College of Art, Portsmouth College of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London, England

Senior Lecturer, South Bank University, Battersea College of Education, London, England

Visiting Lecturer and tutor at Royal College of Art, The Slade and Goldsmiths College, London, England

Solo Exhibitions

2011         Captain Coram & Mr Handel, Foundling Museum, London, England

2011         Commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, Guildford House Gallery,  

                  Guildford, England

2011         Visual Artist in Residence at the International Music Festival, St. David's Cathedral, Wales

2010         Rozanne Hawksley, ' Retrospective', Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales  

2009         Rozanne Hawksley, ' Retrospective', The Gallery,  Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales          

2006-07   The Seamstress and the Sea, Imperial War Museum, HMS Belfast, London, Portsmouth City

                  Gallery and Museum, Portsmouth, England 

2001         Refugee, Bishop's Palace, St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales

2000         '…a treaty will be signed some time today', London, Harrogate, England; Dublin, Ireland  

1998         Rozanne Hawksley, Sessions Gallery, Newport, Wales

1997          '…a treaty will be signed some time today', Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales

1995         The Colour Orange, Darlington, England   

 

Group Exhibitions

2013         Palace Art Fair, presented by Renée Pfister, Art & Gallery Consultancy, London, England

2012         Drawn to the East: The Magnetic Attraction of Japan, Art on Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2012         Bone, Florence Nightingale Museum, London, England

2012         Cura: Waking Silence, Campbell Works, London, England

2012         Loss, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

2011         Women War Artists, Imperial War Museum, London, England 

2010         At Tangent, Oldham, London, England 

2010         Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, England, The Gallery, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales  

2010         Bending the Line, The Hub, Sleaford, England; Ryswijk, Holland; Collins Gallery,

                  Glasgow, Scotland

2009         Generation,  Portsmouth City Gallery and Museum, Portsmouth, England 

2009         National Eisteddfod, Wales

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

2008         Stuff….62 Group, Catmose Gallery, Leicestershire, England  

2007-08   Mechanical Drawing, 'The Schiffli Project', The Holden Gallery,  MMU  Manchester; The Hub,

                  Sleaford; Fairfield Mill, Sedbergh; Macclesfield Silk Museum; Knitting & Stitching Show,

                  Birmingham, London, Harrogate, England, 

2006         Children at War, 'Flossie and Me', Imperial War Museum, London, England

2006         'Aspects of Narrative in Contemporary Art Textiles in Wales, The Gallery,  

                  Ruthin Craft Centre,Wales

2006         Witness-Highlights, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England

2006         Tracing Threads, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove, England   

2005         SOFA, Chicago, USA, The Gallery, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales

2005         Ceremony, Pumphouse, London, England

2004         Of Sea and Stars, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales

2004         Of Material Concern, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England   

2003         Sample ofArt of Stitch, Williamson Galleries, Birkenhead, England; Tilburg Museum, Hollland

2003         'Aspects of Narrative in Contemporary Art Textiles, National Eisteedfod of Wales, Meifod, Wales  

2003         Material Spaces, Tullie House, Carlisle, England

2002         Visual Arts and Crafts Exhibition , St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales   

2001         Network, Bishop Palace, St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales

2001         Knit and Stitch, London, Harrogate, UK and Dublin, Ireland

2001         Casualties were surprisingly light, Bishop Palace, St. Davids, UK 

2000         Endings, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, England

1999         10x10 (in support of Mencap), Knitting & Stitching Show, London, Harrogate, England;

                   Dublin, Ireland  

1998         The First World War Remembered, Imperal War Museum, London, England

1998         On the Edge, Knitting & Stitching Show, Tatton Park Cheshire; London, Harrogate, England;

                   Dublin, Ireland

1994         Box, Walsall Museum and Gallery, Walsall, England 

1993         Sculpture at Margam, Margam Park, Port Talbot, Wales

1993         Declarations of War, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, England   

1993         No more Hero's Anymore,  Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

1992         Visual Arts and Crafts Exhibition,  National Eisteddfod of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales   

1992         Out of Frame, Crafts Council, London; Mercer Gallery, Harrogate; Herbert Art Gallery and

                  Museum, Coventry; Aberystwysth Art Centre, Wales; Plymouth City Art Gallery; Peter Scott

                  Gallery; Lancaster University, England

1992         International Triennale, National Museum of Textiles, Lódz, Poland

1991         Network, Bishop's Palace, St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales

1988         Subversive Stitch, Corner House, Manchester, England

1988         Death, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England

1986         Stitched Textiles for Interiors, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, England

1985         62 Group Show, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, touring Kyoto and Osaka, Japan

1980-81    Embroiderer's Guild Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute, London, England


Collections 

Andrew Salmon, Creative Exhibitions, London, England 

Whitelands College, University of Surrey, Roehampton, England 

Worship Company of Weavers, Bishop of London, England

Embroiderers' Guild, England

Imperial War Museum, London, England 

Central Museum of Textiles, Lódz, Poland  

National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff, Wales   


Awards

2006          Exhibition Award for The Seamstress and the Sea, Arts Council of Wales, Cardiff, Wales

1997          Exhibition Award, Imperial War Museum, London, England

1992          Travel Award for travel to Poland, British Council, England

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

Publications

2012          Textiles: The Art of Mankind, Mary Schoeser, Thames & Hudson, London, England 

2011          Eight Pegs, Tony Curtis with drawings with Rozanne Hawksley, Mulfran Press, Cardiff, Wales

2009          Rozanne Hawksley, Mary Schoeser, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin and Lund Humprhies,

                   Burlington, VT, USA

                   A number of articles in the Guardian and Embroiderers Guild, England

 

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