Susan Kinley, Artist in Glass & Textile
Name Susan Kinley
 
Email
info@susankinley.co.uk
 
Currently Artistic Assessor for Arts Council England
 
Training
 
1979 - 1981
Royal College of Art MA RCA
1975 - 1978
Goldsmiths College BA HONS
1974 - 1975
Barnet College
 
Awards/Research Grants
 
2009
Arts Council England - Grants for the arts award, 2009
2006
David Cantor Memorial Award
2004
Research Grant - Arts Council England, South West
2000
Year of the Artist project Award - South West Arts
1997
Anglo - Diawa Foundation
Sasakawa Foundation
South West Arts - Travel and Research in Japan
1985
London Individuals Grant - Crafts Council
1982
Setting Up grant - Crafts Council
 
Residencies/Fellowships
 
2000
Royal Cornwall Hospital
1998
Takenaka Corporation, Osaka, Japan
1990 - 1991
Falmouth College of Art [Fellowship]
1982
Kilkenny Arts Week, Ireland
 
Selected Group & Solo Exhibitions
 
2011
Print! – Island Fields glass installation, the Exchange Gallery, Penzance
2009
'Overview' [Catalogue] - Solo exhibition at Walford Mill Craft Centre, Wimborne, Dorset, June/July 2009
On The Edge [ Catalogue ] - Contemporary Glass from Ireland and South West England - Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Touring
2008
Seasonal Splendour - Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
Collect - Victoria &Albert Museum
2007
Lineage - Newlyn Gallery, Penzance
Carbon Footprint - Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey
Unquiet Earth - Newlyn Society of Artists
2006
Newlyn Gallery - Summer Exhibition
2005
Thompson's Gallery - City, London
2004
Elemental Insight - Met Office, Exeter [Catalogue], Touring
2002
Construction - Newlyn Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2001
Layering Light - Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, London [Solo]
2000
Everyone's a Winner - [Award winning makers, tour]
Japanese Connections - Nagoya University, Japan [tour]
Chase - Royal College of Art, London
1999
Contemporary Art and Craft - Beatrice Royal Galleries,Hampshire
1998
Panels and Constructions - Takenaka Corporation, Osaka, Japan [Solo]
1997
Silk and Glass panels - Victoria and Albert Museum
1996
Six of the Best - Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
1995
Japanese Connections - Royal Cornwall Museum,Truro [Tour]
1994
Undercurrents - North West Arts, [Tour]
1993
Chimera - Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
1992
Women Artists in the South West - Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Selected Work - Contemporary Textile Gallery, London
Wallworks and Hangings - Meridian Gallery, Cornwall
Of Paper and Wood - Rufford Crafts Centre, Newark
1991
Textile Constructions - Truro County Hall, Cornwall [Solo]
Textile Constructions - Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth [Solo]
Paintings and Hangings - Newlyn Orion Gallery, Penzance [Solo]
1990
South West Open - Plymouth City Art Gallery, Plymouth
1989
Bookbinding, Calligraphy and Papermaking - Rufford Crafts centre
1988
Amics Collection - Mitsui, Tokyo, Japan
Textures - New Academy Gallery, London
Space Artists - Air Gallery, London
Sixth International Tapestry Triennial - Central Museum of Textiles
Lodz, Poland
Paperworks - Taunton Brewhouse,Taunton
Made in Paper - Lincolnshire College of Art and Design, Lincoln
A Foot in Every Direction - Creaser Gallery, London
1987
Second Annual Exhibition of Miniature Art, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto
Paint and Paper - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, [Tour]
8x8 - Curwen Gallery, London
1986
Beneath The Surface - Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham [Solo]
1985
Space Studio Artists - Woodlands Gallery,London
Wood and Paper - Consort Gallery, Imperial College, London
Paperworks - Anatol Orient, London [Solo]
International Contemporary Art Fair - Olympia, London
Material Evidence - Camden Arts Centre, London
1984
New Tapestries and Paperworks - Riverside Gallery, London
Mixed Media - Raya Gallery,Singapore
1983
Ten Space Studio Artists - South London Gallery, London
Sideshow - ICA, London
Paperound - British Crafts Centre, London
1983
Hangings And Paperworks - Aspects Gallery, London [Solo]
1982
Paperworks - Kilkenny Design Centre,Dublin [Solo]
Paperworks - Shee Alms House, Kilkenny, Dublin
And Printmaking - Waterloo Gallery, London
 
Commissions [Public and Corporate]
 
2011
Fused glass panels for a courtyard garden, Gwennap, Cornwall
2009 - 2010
The New Bewbush Centre, Crawley, West Sussex – Series of laminated glass window panels around building and interior textile panels
2008
Consultant - Community Glass Window Project - Falmouth Art Gallery Cornwall
2006
Moving On - Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership [with Willis Newson] - Layered and printed silk panels for a new dementia unit, Weston Super Mare
2005
Moving On - Laminated stained and printed glass windows and silk wall panels for new Multi-Faith room, Fromeside Medium Secure Unit, Blackberry Hill, Bristol
2003 - 2004
Leading The Way [with Willis Newson] - Flooring designs for corridors, waiting areas and A&E for the New Gloucester Royal Children’s Hospital, Gloucester
2002 - 2003
Laminated silk and glass lightboxes - Kings College Hospital,London
2002
Panels and silk hangings - Glaxo Smith Kline, London
Glass screens for healing garden - Heamatology unit, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Silk and glass rod hangings for interior - Haematology unit,Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
2001
Printed glass panels for bus shelters - The Moor regeneration scheme, Falmouth, Cornwall
Silk and glass rod banners - Personal Group Holdings plc, Milton Keynes
2000
Series of silk and glass rod panels - Year of the Artist project at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall
Stained and laminated glass memorial window - Penlee House Museum and Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
1998
Panels - Marks and Spencer plc, St Michael's House, London
1997
Panels - Hotel in Kochi, Japan
1995
Eight layered silk hangings - British Embassy, Dublin
1994
Silk hangings - Willis Coroon, London
1992
Silk hangings - Charter Group, London
Mobiles - East Cornwall Heritage Centre, Looe, Cornwall
1989
Silk and paper hangings - Issey Miyake, Sloane Street, London
1988
Paperworks - Butlers Wharf, London
Panels - Royal Albert House, Windsor
1986
Paper collaged panels - Sedgewick Centre, Whitechapel, London
1985
Paper panels - IBM, London
Paper collaged panels - International Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
1984
Mixed media wallworks - Advertising Standards Authority, London
 
Various commissions also undertaken for individual clients and interiors
 
Publications (selected)
 
Making Value – Craft & the economic and social contribution of makers – Mary Schwarz & Dr. Karen Yair, Crafts Council, 2010

Overview - Catalogue - Solo exhibition at Walford Mill Craft Centre, Wimborne, Dorset, June/July 2009

On the Edge - Catalogue - ContemporaryGlass from Ireland and South West England,Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, 2009

Collect - Catalogue - The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, Crafts Council, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2008

Moor Art - Public Art Enriching Public Spaces - a case study, 2005

Elemental Insight - Catalogue - Met Office Exhibition, 2004

Art for All - Cornwall today, article, 2001

365 - Year of the Artist in the South West - Book, Agre, 2001

Crafts - Craftnotes, article, Nov/Dec 2000

Everyone’s a Winner - Exhibition catalogue, Margo Coatts - A Devon Guild of Craftsmen

touring exhibition of 12 award-winning makers, 1999

Artist’s Newsletter - In Pursuit of Excellence - Article, 1999

World of Interiors - The Art of Living - Article, 1999

Craft - A Wealth of Talent [ In Pursuit of Excellence ] - Book, Hawkins, 1998

Architectural Review - An Irish Solution - Article, 1997

Public; Art; Space - A decade of Public Art Commissions, 1987 - 1999 - Book, Pacca, Merrell Hoberton, 1997

Japanese Connections - Catalogue, 1996

Crafts - Japanese Connections - Review, Ruth Pavey, 1995

Creative Review - Article, 1987

Aspects Magazine - Article, 1985

Crafts - Wallworks - Article, 1985

Arts Review - Mixed Materials, Article, Brian Beaumont-Nesbitt, 1983
 
Lecturing/Teaching Experience
 
University College Falmouth - Part time lecturer, BA Textiles from 2000

Cornwall College - Course Leader, Fine Art/Textiles, 1997 - 2000

Falmouth College of Art and Design - Part time lecturer, Foundation Course, 1990 - 96

One Year Fellowship - South West Arts and Falmouth College of Art - Community workshops and lectures throughout Cornwall, 1990 - 91

Bournemouth College of Art and Design - Part time lecturer, Foundation Course, 1981 -1990

Visiting lecturer at various colleges and universities throughout th UK, and in Kyoto, Japan

Lectures and workshops undertaken in conjunction with exhibitions, and workshops, presentations and consultations as part of public art and community projects.