Employment
Adjudicator Guernsey Eisteddfod 2010, 2011 & 2013
1998- 2007 College lecturer Textiles /Art & Design. Tameside College
Higher Education
P.G.C.E 2004 Teaching Sunderland University Tameside College
M.A 2000 Textiles Manchester Metropolitan University
PG Diploma 1999 Textiles Manchester Metropolitan University
BA (hons) 1998 Embroidery Manchester Metropolitan University
Member of
http://www.quiltart.eu
Forthcoming Exhibitions
Touring‘Traces’ ‘QuiltArt’ group New Brewery Arts Cirencester UK
Solo show‘Alchemy’ Timeless Textiles Gallery NSW. Australia Nov 2019
Invitation ‘Dialogues’ ‘QuiltArt’ group Kirkcudbright Art Gallery Scotland Jan-Feb 2019
JuriedArt Quilt Masters Festival of Quilts NEC Birmingham, UK: Aug 9 -12, 2018
InvitationOrdering chaos; Piecing the Present Spartanburg Art Museum MA USA (Date TBA)
Exhibitions
Juried Scythia 12thinternational Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art Ukraine May 29 June 15 2018
Juried SAQA 'Concrete & Grasslands' Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK: August 9 -12, 2018
The Spring Knitting & Stitching Show, London, UK: March 1-4, 2018
Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London, UK: October 11-14, 2018
Knitting & Stitching Show, Dublin, Ireland: November 8-11, 2018
Knitting & Stitching Show: Harrogate, UK: November 22-25, 2018
Asia Quilt Festival, Shanghai, China Sept 2017
Juried ‘Stitch in the South West’ Lansdown Gallery Stroud July 2016
‘Stitch in The Southwest' Prestbury House Churcham Glos July 2016
Juried Scythia 8thinternational mini Exhibition Kherson Ukraine June 2017
Juried Fantastic Fibers Paducah Kentucky USA April-June 2017
‘Portrait Shuffle’ Festival of Quilts Birmingham Aug 2016
Juried‘Mini-Textile’ exhibition Veere & Hawar The Netherlands April & May 2017
Invitation‘Ordering chaos; Piecing the Present” Spartanburg Art Museum MA USA (date TBA) 2018
Solo show‘Fragments’ Timeless Textile Newcastle NSW Australia 16 November – 11 Dec 2016
Juried‘World of Threads’ Oakville Ontario Canada Oct 29-November 27 2016
JuriedFrom Lausanne to Beijing 9th International Fiber Art BiennaleShenzhen, China Sept 10-26, 2016
Juried‘Art Quilt Masters’ Festival of Quilts Birmingham NEC Aug 11th-14thUK
Juried/TouringCapability Browne Landscapes, Embroiderers Guild,Artrix Centre for the Arts Bromsgrove UK September 2016
The Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace 5-9thOct 2016
The Knitting & Stitching Show, Harrogate International Centre 23rd-26thNov 2016
Fashion, Embroidery Stitch Show Birmingham NEC Birmingham March 2016
JuriedFiber Art InternationalPittsburgh May 6th - August 23rd 2016
Juried'Concrete & Grasslands' Grants Pass Oregon USA June 1st - August 30th 2016
Juried ‘Fantastic Fibers’Yeiser Art Center Paducah KY April 9th - June 4th 2015
Juried 'Structures' Old Fire Station Gallery Henley-on-Thames UK 19th-24th Nov 2015
Juried'International "Fiber Arts VII" Sebastopol CA USA Oct 23 - Nov 28 2015
Juried'Digital Alchemy' International Quilt Festival Houston Texas Oct 23-Nov 1 2015
Juried ‘Art Al Vent XII’ Gata de Gorgos Spain August 2015
Juried/Touring'The World Quilt Show'New England USA August 18, 19, 20th 2015
Pacific International Quilt Festival XXIV California October 14-18 2015
Quiltfest OasisPalm Springs Oct 8-10 2015
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XXIISept 17-20 2015
Juried ‘'Fantastic Fibers'Yeiser Art Center Paducah KY April 11th June 6th 2015
Juried/Touring ‘Wide Horizons IV'
AQS July 29- Aug 1 2015 Syracuse NY
AQS Aug 12 -15 2015 Grand Rapids, MI
AQS Sept 16-19, 2015 Chattanooga, TN
AQS Sept 30-Oct 3 2015 Des Moines, IA
AQS April 22-25, 2015 Paducah, KY
Juried‘H20' Art with a Heart Gallery Altrincham Cheshire UK 4th March - 3rd May 2015
JuriedFrom Lausanne to Beijing 8th International Fiber Art Biennale,Nantong, China Sept 30-December16, 2014
JuriedWorld of ThreadsOakville Canada Nov1-30th 2014
Juried/Touring Metaphors on Ageing
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Raleigh, North Carolina June 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Lakeland, Florida March 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Schaumburg, Illinois March 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Cleveland, Ohio April 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Worcester, Massachusetts April 2015
Fort Worth, Texas October 16-18, 2014 Tinley Park, Illinois November 20-22, 2014
'Art of the Needle 2' Coach House Gallery Guernsey 5th-31st October 2014
Juried/touringWide Horizons IV Carrefour European du Patchwork, Alsace France
Juried/touringWide Horizons IV
‘Abilmente’ Vicenza Italy 16th-19th October 2014
AQS Quilt Week Lancaster County Convention Center Lancaster, PA. USA March 11th- 14th
AQS Quilt Week Albuquerque New Mexico 14th-17th Jan 2015
'JuriedFlowers At Oxford' August 22-24 Lady Margaret Hall Oxford.
Invitation'Ultimate Quilt Artists'Festival of Quilts NEC Birmingham Aug 7-10th 2014
Juried'Fantastic Fibers' Yieser Art Center Paducah Kentucky April 5th-May 24th 2014
JuriedArt Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center Philadelphia March 21 -May 3 2014
JuriedAilsa Craig Quilt Festival 'Quilts of Great Britain' Canada May 19th - 24th 2014
Juried/Touring‘Metaphors on Ageing’
International Quilt Festival Chicago Illinois June 19-21 2014
Quilt! Knit! Stitch! Portland, Oregon i13-16th August 2014
Fons & Porter Love of Quilting Expo Atlanta, Georgia September 11-13, 2014
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo Tinley Park, Illinois November 20-22, 2014
Quilting Expo Fredericksburg, Virginia October 2-4, 2014.
Overland Park, Kansas October 9-11, 2014.
Fort Worth, Texas October 16-18, 2014
Tinley Park, Illinois November 20-22, 2014
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo-- Lakeland, Florida March 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Schaumburg, Illinois March 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo -- Cleveland, Ohio(April 2015
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo-- Worcester, Massachusetts April 2015
Juried/Touring‘Hidden Histories'
Creative Stitches/Fashion Embroidery & Stitch, Excel London: 3-5 April 2014
Sewing For Pleasure/Fashion Embroidery & Stitch, NEC Birmingham: 20-23 March 2014
Creative Stitches, SECC Glasgow: 6-8 March 2014
Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts, Event City Manchester: 6-8 February 2014
Quilters Guild - The Knitting & Stitching Show 13-16 March 2014 London Olympia
Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts, Westpoint Centre Exeter: 26-29 September 2013
Juried/TouringFiberArts International San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, CA Nov 6-Jan 19th 2014
Juried/TouringFiberarts International Art Museum Myrtle Beach SC Jan 19th-April 24th 2014
Juried/TouringWorld Quilt Show Florida: West Palm Beach, Florida January 9 – 11, 2014 Pacific International Quilt Festival: Santa Clara, California Oct 2013
World Quilt & Textile Show XVII Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza: Oaks, Pennsylvania Sept 2013
World Quilt & Textile Show XVII 2013 New-England: Manchester, New Hampshire August 15-18 2013
Juried'Water Water' Old Fire Station Gallery Henley-on- Thames 14th-19th Nov 2013
Juried/TouringMetaphors on Ageing' Festival of Quilts Birmingham Aug 8-11 2013
International Quilt Convention, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa Sept 6-8 2013
Contemporary Textile Group, Guernsey Picture Framers Gallery June 1st-July 27th 2011
The Button Project, The Heritage Centre Macclesfield 15th June-8th Aug
Guernsey Quilters St Peter Port May 2013
Juried/TouringFiberarts International Pittsburgh USA 19th April - August 18th 2013
Juried/Touring‘JJ Fox Open’ St James Guernsey 13th Nov - 4th Dec 2012
‘JJ Fox Open’ The Berni Gallery Jersey 1st-20th October 2012
Juried‘Textiles & Mixed Media ”Eggspace Liverpool 17thAugust - 09th September 2012
juried‘Desparate Artwives’2 Leroy House Gallery Islington London June 28th -July 4th 2012
‘Stitch’ QEH Guernsey May-Aug 2012
Juried'Desperate Artwives' Vibe Gallery London May 2012
'Fresh Thinking:Art of the Needle' Coach House Gallery Guernsey May 2012
'TweetArt' Westgate Studio Wakefield March 2012
Juried'Contextus:a re-weaving of fabric's context in Art' Edinburgh Arts Complex March 2012
Festival of Quilts Birmingham NEC Aug 2011
Sarnia Arts open exhibition Guernsey July 29-7th Aug 2011
Meddygfa Albany Surgery Cardiff May/July 2011
Solo ExhibitionP.E.H Guernsey Feb/March 2011
Juried'Stitch' P.E.H Guernsey June/August 2010
Juried'Made To Fit' Willis Museum Basingstoke 20th March 17th April 2010
JuriedMourant Prize Guernsey Airport Dec 2009 -Jan 2010
‘Actionaid’ The Royal Institution of Great Britain, Mayfair, London November 2009
‘Actionaid’ John McAslan + Partners 5th-17th November 2009
Textile Open Platform Gallery 29th August - October 21 2009
JuriedSurface/Space/Time' Crypt Gallery London August 27th, - September 10th 2009
JuriedMourant Prize Guernsey Airport Dec 2008 Jan 2009
Surface Gallery Open Nottingham 2008
Jersey Textile Open 2008
Juried'Stitched Up’ Crescent Arts Scarborough 2007
Juried‘Stitched’ Stroud House Gallery Stroud 2007
‘In the Bag’ Righton Gallery Manchester 2000
Juried‘Threads Contemporary' Platform Gallery Clitheroe Textiles’ 1999
Queens Park Hospital Blackburn 1998
Textiles The Righton Gallery 1998
Poetry Garden Central Library Manchester 1997
The Bobbing Show Atlanta America 1997
Euro-Stitch Amsterdam 19977
Publications
Textile Landscape: Painting with Cloth in Mixed Media, Cas Holmes – Batsford Ltd (Release date 6thSeptember 2018)
Be Creative Magazine issue 168 2018
Dimensional Cloth: Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists by Andra F Stanton, Josephine Stealey Schiffer Publishing (release date 28thJune 2018)
SAQA Art Quilt Quarterly journal issue 9 Winter 2018
Textile Fibre Forum, issue 126 June Cover & 7 Page interview 2017'
Be Inspired Magazine' issue 163 Aug 2017
SAQA Journal Magazine Volume 27 no.1 2017
SDA Inaugural International Exhibition in Print. Surface Design Journal Winter 2017
'Exploring Fiber Art ' 3 - Volume book Edited by Ashley Rooney & Anne Lee - Schiffer Publishing 2016 (Including back cover image)
'Art Quilts International: Abstracts & Geometrics' Martha Sielman Schiffer Publishing December 2016
Portfolio 23 Documenting the art quilt movement SAQA 2016
Textile Fibre Forum magazine, issue 124 2016
Art Quilt Collector magazine SAQA issue 3 2016
‘Trees’ article Embellish Magazine Vol 25 March 2015
'Excellence in Fibers' catalogue FiberArt Now magazine Collectors edition Vol 5 issue 2 Winter 2015/6
'Be Inspired Magazine' Vol 3 Nov 2015 8 page interview
'Be Creative' with Workbox Magazine May/June 2015 Cover & 8 Page interview issue149
'Through Our Hands' Magazine issue 4 Feb 2015 Cover & 6 Page interview with Linda Seward
Inspirational Volume 2 2015 The Textile Blog 8 Page article, by John Hopper.
TextileArt around the World Textile-Link Books Ruurloseweg, The Netherlands 2014
CLOSE-UP Fashion Textile Journal Spring Summer 2014
The Quilter Magazine Summer 2014
1000 Quiltinspirations Quarry Books by Sandra Sider 2014
The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting by Linda Seward June 2014
Fiber Art Now Magazine Winter 2013
Popular Patchwork magazine Nov 2013
The Quilter Magazine Summer 2013
Fiber Art Now Magazine Winter edition 2013
CQ@10
Textiles: The Art of Mankind by Mary Schoeser Thames and Hudson Ltd 2012
Front cover of ‘This Month’ magazine for August 1999
Awards
Silver Medal Winner Scythia 12thinternational Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art Ukraine 2018
Winner of SAQA ‘Golden Hour’ fabric design competition 2017
Winner of Mourant 'Artist of the Year' Prize 2009- 10
Winner of most creative design category Euro-Stitch Competition 1997
Winner of second place, Home textiles category Euro -Stitch competition 1997
Radio/Online Interviews
https://www.textileartist.org/susan-hotchkis-conception-creation/
https://www.textileartist.org/sue-hotchkis-tool-kit/
interview with Anne Kempton Timeless Textiles Gallery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvrNTo-QPoY
BBC Radio Guernsey Jim Cathcart Show January 2010
BBC Radio Guernsey Jenny Kendall-Tobias programme December 2010
BBC Radio Guernsey Jenny Kendall-Tobias programme May 2012
Workshops
‘Alchemy’ Experimental workshop Timeless Textiles Gallery Newcastle Australia 19/20/21 Nov 2019
‘Fragments’ Experimental workshop Timeless Textiles Gallery Newcastle Australia 19/20/21 Nov 2016
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