Selected Biography

Exhibitions 2011 Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Denbighshire ‘Reflections and Investigations’ 2010 Corham Court, Vaults Gallery, ‘Material Evidence’ High Cross House, Dartington Hall, Devon ‘Sense of Place’ Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey ‘Collection’ 2008 Bankfield Museum & Dean Clough, Halifax, West Yorkshire ‘Tapestry 08’ 2007 BSW Gallery, Exeter, Devon ‘East to West’ Stroud International Textile Festival, Museum in the Park ‘One Step Forward’ Highlights Rural Tours – William Jefferies and Jilly Edwards 2006 South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire ‘Off the Wall’ Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey ‘Off the Wall’ 2005 Ozone Gallery, Tokyo 2004 Fiberart Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall St. James Gallery, Bath ‘21st Anniversary Exhibition’ ‘COLLECT’, V&A, London 2003 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Fiberart Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton ‘Beside the Seaside’ RAMM, Exeter, South West Academy ‘Summer Exhibition’ 2002 GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan Art Planning Room, Tokyo

30/31

2002

2001

2000 Daiwa Foundation, London Customs House, South Shields UCL, Preston Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries Warehouse Gallery, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal ‘Journeys and Journals’, touring 2001–02 Between 1973 – 2000 Edwards had various solo and joint exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA

Awards 2011 Gane Trust 2010 Arts Council England 2009 Madelaine Mabey Trust 2008 The Theo Moorman Trust – research 2006 Arts Council England – new work for 2007 Stroud International Textile Festival 2004 Arts Council England – new work for Crafts Study Centre, Farnham 2002 Daiwa Foundation (also1999) 2002 Sasakawa Foundation (also1999) 2001 Arts Council England (National Touring Scheme) 2000 Northern Arts – Mentoring Scheme

Commissions 2008 Private commission, Nottinghamshire 2003 Goldman/Cook, Publishers, Los Angeles, USA 2001 Ove Arup, Newcastle Upon Tyne

32/33

A Splash of Blue, 1983 (in situ) Collection of Ove Arup

From Porthmeor Beach to Zennor, 2000 (in situ) Collection of Ove Arup

Memories of Travels, 2003 (in situ) Private collection

Collections 2007 Hampshire Museum Collection 2005 Kobe, Japan 2002 Customs House, South Shields

Publications 2011 Crafts Magazine, May/June Craftarts, March 2010 Journal of Weavers, December Embroidery Magazine, September/October Crafts Magazine, September/October ‘Sense of Place’, brochure 2009 Crafts Magazine, March/April 2005 Telos Publications, ‘Textiles of the World Great Britain 3’ 2004 Embroidery Magazine 2002 Crafts Magazine, March/April 2001 ‘Journeys and Journals’, catalogue 2000 Telos, Portfolio Series No.1 – Jilly Edwards

Education 2003–04 1980–82 1966–69 University of Creative Arts, Farnham – Advanced Research Edinburgh College of Art, Tapestry Department, Special Course West of England College of Art, Bristol – Textiles

Edwards has taught and lectured in Higher and Further Educational establishments across the UK and Japan.

34/35