curriculum vitae
Name: Helen MacRitchie
Address: Meadow House, Park Farm, Waterstock, Oxfordshire OX33 1JT, UK
t: +441865655861 (home/work) +447884448205 (mobile)
e: hbmacritchie@gmail.com
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i: @helenmacritchie
Qualifications:
2008 - 2016 City & Guilds 7922 Level 3 Diploma in Design and Craft- Stitched Textiles (Embroidery) from Urchfont College, UK
2003 – 2007 City & Guilds 7922 Level 3 Certificate Design and Craft- Stitched Textiles (Embroidery)
1993 - 1998 PhD in Pharmaceutics from King’s College, University of London, UK
1983 - 1987 BSc (Hons) in Pharmacy from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK
Exhibiting Associations, memberships and affiliations:
2020 - seam Collective and Ten19 Fibre artists
2108 - Oxfordshire Craft Guild, UK and Prism Textiles UK
2015 - Untethered Fibre Artists Inc. Australia
2013 - 2023 Arts and Crafts Society of NSW (Craft NSW)
Awards:
2020: Winner of 3D sculpture Emerging Artist award, Creates Gallery, Monmouth
2018: shortlisted for Zealous Co. EMERGE Craft Prize UK
shortlisted for Craft Biennale Scotland (exhibition postponed)
2015, 13, 12: Sydney Royal Arts and Crafts Show (SRAS) Standard of excellence awards
2015, 14 - 11: SRAS 1st prize awards
Recent Solo Exhibitions:
2022 Sept: Topophilia: a sense of belonging at Gallery76, The Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW, Queen Street, Concord West NSW
Group Exhibitions:
2023:
Signatures, Untethered Fibre Artists, at Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2022:
A Visible Thread, seam Collective, at ACE Arts Gallery, Somerton, Somerset UK
Critical Elements, Untethered Fibre Artists, at Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney NSW
Signatures, Untethered Fibre Artists, at Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Crossing Lines, textile artists NSW and Canberra, at Canberra Museum and Gallery
Weathered and Worn, Ten19 Fibre Artists at the Angel Gallery, Telford
Untold, Prism Textiles at the Art Pavilion, Mile End, London
Alternate View, Untethered Fibre Artists, at Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
2021:
Health and the Climate and Ecological Emergency exhibition, University College Hosp
In search of possibilities with Prism Textiles, The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London
Signatures, Untethered Fibre Artists, at Australian Design Centre, Sydney, NSW
Project 2060: Homeward Bound with Untethered Fibre Artists, Waverton, NSW
Restriction exhibition with Correspondence Collective, at Clayhill Arts Centre, Bridgwater, UK
You are Here, virtual exhibition by @katmapped
2020:
Found Narrative, Untethered Fibre Artists, at Muswellbrook Regional Gallery NSW
un:Seen, Untethered Fibre Artists, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Tarree, NSW
Emerging Artists 2020, Create Gallery, Monmouth, UK
2019
Fragility, Prism Textiles, Hoxton Arches, London UK and RBSA, Birmingham UK
un:Seen, Untethered Fibre Artists, at Gallery M, Adelaide SA, and Goulburn Regional Gallery Goulburn NSW
Found Narrative, Untethered Fibre Artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2018:
un:Seen, Untethered Fibre Artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
InTransit, Untethered Fibre Artists, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Greenway ACT
Entwine, Northbridge School Visual Arts, Sydney
Synthesis, members of Untethered Fibre Artists, GalleryONE88, Katoomba, NSW
2017:
InTransit, Untethered Fibre Artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW,
Ebb and Flow, Untethered Fibre Artists, Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen ACT and Muswellbrook Regional Gallery NSW
Stitched Up, Untethered Fibre Artists in collaboration, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, NSW
2016: Ebb and Flow, Untethered Fibre Artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby
2015: Out of Hand, Untethered Fibre Artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby
2014: Craft NSW selected artists’ exhibition, Gallery 152, The Gap, Brisbane, QLD
Commissions: Hangings, wearables and handbags commissioned in Australia, and London, UK
Publications:
2023 Embroidery May/June issue,
2022 Felt magazine issue 28, p30-33
2022 Felt magazine issue 27, p29-35
2021 Felt Matters issue 144, p20-21
2020 Ox Magazine, Nov/Dec issue, p21-23; Creates Magazine, Spring issue, p7 and p12-13
2018 Textile, issue 131, p35-40
2017 Felt, issue 17, p34-38; Textile, issue 128, p17 p15-18
2016 Be Creative with Workbox, issue 157, p38-45; Down under Textiles, issue 24, p18-21; Worldwide Colours of Felt, Bakker E, www.textil-link.de
2014 Down under Textiles, issue 17, p76; Stitch issue 87, p12-14
Workshops: given on behalf of (Australian Textile Arts and Design Association (ATASDA) NSW, ATASDA QLD, Hand Weavers and Spinners NSW, Stitching and Beyond Inc, Tasmania
