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Siân Martin

Siân Martin's ideas for her multi-media embroidery come from her interest in materials and ideas of memory. She is currently interested in using the Japanese method of shibori and computerised machine stitch to transform the textile surface.

Education

BA hons, Birmingham College of Art and Design having specialised in Embroidery within the Faculty of Textile Design. She undertook a year's postgraduate study leading to an M.A. in the same college before gaining an Art Teachers Diploma from the University of Leicester.

Memberships - Professional Groups

62 Group of Textile Artists: exhibiting member since 1974.
PSG - the 'Practical Study Group': a branch of the Embroiderer's Guild working within the educational field of embroidery.

Teaching

Sian Martin lectures and run workshops both in this country and abroad. She is a visiting lecturer at Somerset College of Art and Technology on the Textiles degree courses. Sian tutors a masterclass at Urchfont Manor College, Wiltshire.
Sian is the director and tutor 'Distant Stitch', an embroidery correspondence of City and Guilds Creative Studies with students throughout the world. www.distantstitch.co.uk

Publications

'Embroidery' and 'World of Embroidery', Summer and Autumn '72, Winter '88, Summer '90, Autumn '93, Winter '95, May '96
'Textilkunst' 1985
Constance Howard's '20th Century Embroidery in GB from 1978'
'Starting to Stitch', (Batsford) edited by Val Campbell-Harding
'Contemporary British Textile Art by the 62 Group'
'Textile Aspects' by the 62 Group
Featured in the Gallery of Artists in 'The World of Embroidery' magazine January 1999
Articles on design and wrapping in 'Stitch with the Embroiderers' Guild' magazine December 1999 and June 2001
Celebrity interview on 'Workshop on The Web' online magazine, June 2006
Article in Design-It, the magazine for the Computer Textile Design Group, April 2006
Contributer to Maggie Grey's book 'From Image to Stitch'
Contributer to Kay Greenlees' book 'Creative Sketchbooks for Embroiderers and Textile Artists'

Exhibitions include:

1998	62 Group - 50/50 'The Challenge of Constraint' touring Tel Aviv and the Knitting and Stitching Shows.

1998-2000

New Fibre Art - 'Artful Boxes' touring exhibition.

2000	Practical Study Group - 'Unhinged', Madeira, Harrogate, York, Chichester and Birkenhead.

2002	62 Group Ruby Anniversary Tour - 'Red' Bury St Edmunds and MAC, Birmingham.

2002	New Fibre Art 'Atmospheres' at Newport Museum and Art Gallery 2001 and Brewhouse Taunton, Somerset.

2001-02

Practical Study Group 'Bold as Brass', touring.

2002	Cajoba, Birkenhead.

2003	'Material Concern - Off the Wall' with the Practical Study Group at Ironbridge Museum of Iron

2005	'Encounters' - Cambridge Museum of Zoology

2005	'Not What it Seams - Further Thoughts', Bankfield Museum, Halifax

2005	'Homelands' - Denbigh and Braintree touring exhibition with Fibre.Art.Wales

2006	'On the Surface' - Brewhouse Theatre and Art Gallery, Taunton, Somerset

2006	'Tracing Threads' - Hove Museum and Art Gallery

2007	'Still Life' Pfaff sponsored Art Textiles touring exhibition, Knitting and Stitching Show, Chatelaudren, France, Sweden

2008	'Stuff' - Catmose Gallery, Leicestershire

2008	'Creative Dialogues' with the PSG - currently touring -Bankfield, Walsall, Brewhouse Taunton

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