Biography

 

Bren Boardman Textile Artist

 

 

Born:             1953     Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England

Education:
2000 – 2003 Loughborough University – BA (Hons) 1st Class Printed Textiles
1999 – 2000 Heriot-Watt University, – Cert of Higher Ed Textiles
1998 – 1999  Warwickshire College, BTEC Textiles Part 1
1995 – 1996   Missenden College – City & Guilds Creative Studies

Previously career as a Marketing Professional – c.v. on request

 

Exhibitions 2011:

    • Nature,Raw & Wild             The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden
    • Artist in Residence               Mill Dene Garden, Blockley, Gloucs
    • Rooms                                          The Beetroot Tree Gallery, Draycott, Derbyshire
    • Hidcote Sculpture Trail    Hidcote National Trust Gardens
    • Rugby Open Juried             Rugby Art Gallery & Museum
    • Colour, Print, Stitch            The Gallery @ The Guild, Chipping Campden
    • Carnival of Colour               The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden

Exhibitions 2010:

    • Fine & Unique                          Pedlars Gallery Warwick Museum
    • Rugby Open                              Rugby Art Gallery Awarded JudgesCommendation
    • Showcase Exhibition           The Gallery @ The Guild, Chipping Campden
    • Gallery Show                           Paul Hopwell Gallery West Haddon
    • Visual Arts Forum                Stratford Literary Festival, Civic Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon
    • Summer Exhibition              The Gallery Upstairs Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
    • Warks Artsweek Open Studio with fellow artists Nicola Richards, Ceramics;Tom Hare and Spencer Jenkins
    • VAF Winter Exhibition       Civic Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon
    • Eight Artists                              Lewis Gallery Rugby School, Rugby
    • Winter Exhibition                  The Gallery Upstairs Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
    • Festival of Quilts                    Art Quilts Category, NEC, Birmingham Awarded Runner Up
    • LSA Summer Exhibition     Leamington Studio Artists, Warwickshire College

Exhibitions 2009:

  • Claybarn Exhibition            Louise Derby Studios, Redhill, Warwickshire
  • Spring Exhibition                  The Gallery Upstairs , Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
  • Northants Open Studios    with Miki Bennett and Fi Bowman, Silverstone, Northants
  • Northants Open Studios    Benfield Hotel, Benfield, Northants
  • Festival of Quilts                    Art Quilts Category, NEC, Birmingham
  • Open Studios                             With Nicola Richards, Ceramicist, My Studio, Warwickshire
  • LSA Summer Show                 Leamington Studio Artists, Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa
  • Sue Lewis Blake Winter Exhibition    Honiley, Warwickshire
  • Leamington Open                   Leamington Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa

Previous Exhibitions History on Request

TEACHING

  • Compton Verney Stitched Landscape – 2011
  • The Bramble Patch Explore your Creative Potential; Sketchbooks
  • Blending Photos with Stitch
  • Community Arts Projects – Escape Stratford and Studley; Paper Moon, Stratford; IN2 Theatre, Stratford; All Saints C of E School, Northants
  • Experience at College and University Level plus teaching Textile Teachers
  • Demonstrations, Workshops and Talks for Quilters Guilds, Embroiderers Guilds
  • plus Dyers, Weavers & Spinners Guilds