MAXINE BRISTOW

Selected Research Outputs - Maxine Bristow

Exhibitions

  • Unbound, [group exhibition including Caroline Broadhead, Susie MacMurray, and Elizabeth Smith], Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 15 September - 27 October 2007.
  • Business as Usual, [group exhibition including Susan Collis, Sean Edwards, David Ersser], Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 18 July - 4 August 2007
  • Sensual Austerity [Solo exhibition] The Hub: National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, 22 July - 10 September 2006; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, 23 September - 4 November 2006 
  • Reveal, [group exhibition showcasing new international textile collection purchased by the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme on behalf of Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery with funds from the Arts Council Lottery between 1998 and 2004], Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, 17 September - 27 November 2005
  • Through the Surface, Collaborating Textile Artists from Britain and Japan. Hove Museum and Art Gallery 27 January - 20 March 2004; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, 5 April - 13 June 2004; Bankfield Museum 26 June - 30 August 2004; Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery 26 September - 21 November 2004; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 19 April 05 - 22 May 2005
  • The Gaps Between, International Textile Biannual 2002. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
  • Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester, 11 January - 2 March 2003; Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, 8 March - 4 May 2003; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 10 May - 6 July 2003; Ettrick Riverside, Selkirk, 5 September - 31 October 2003.

Catalogues/Publications

  • Unbound, Exhibition brochure, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 15 September - 27 October 2007.
  • Business as Usual, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 18 July - 4 August 2007. Exhibition pamphlet including texts by Deborah Dean and Adam Caruso.
  • Negotiated Positions, catalogue to accompany ‘Repeat Repeat’ Conference, University of Chester, 19th, 20th April 2007, ISBN 978-1-905929-21-4
  • Sensual Austerity. Essays include ‘Articulate Silence’ by Elisa Oliver and Clothing the Grid: Alterations and Alternations’ by Victoria Mitchell. The Hub: National Centre for Craft and Design and Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, 2006. ISBN 0-9548015-2-0
  • Revealed. Forward by Kate Stoddard, Introductory essay by Dr Jennifer Harris. Essay on works in the collection [Doing Without: Sustaining 7 Square Metres, 2003, and Pockets/Ventillation Grill, 2004] by Maxine Bristow and Lesley Millar respectively. Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2005. ISBN 0 905634 72
  • Hands Across the Border. Introduction by Philip Hughes, essays by Amanda Fielding and Judy Dames. Ruthin Craft Centre, 2004. ISBN 1 900941 77 5
  • Through the Surface Collaborating Textile Artists from Britain and Japan. Introductions by Ian Dumelow and Takeo Uchiyama; foreword Professor Marie Conte-Helm; essays by Lesley Millar, Keiko Kawashima, Jay Merrick, Gerry Diebel, and the 14 project artists.The Surrey Institute of Art and Design, 2004. ISBN 0-9546285-2-7.
  • Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles. Essay by Lesley Millar. Crafts Council, London, 2002ISBN 1-903713-07-2.
  • The Gaps Between, International Textile Biannual 2002. Essay by David Brett. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, 2003.
  • The 10th International Triennial of Tapestry. Introduction by Norbert Zawiskza, essay by Irena Huml. Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland, 2001. ISBN 83-913224-0-8.
  • Textures of Memory: The Poetics of Cloth. Essays by Pamela Johnson and Pennina Barnett. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 1999. ISBN 0 905 634 39X.
  • [Un] Limited. Repetition and Change in International Contemporary Craft. Foreword by Dr Louise Taylor, introduction by Emmanuel Cooper, and essay by John Tozer. Crafts Council, London, 1999. ISBN 1 870145 85 2.
  • The 6th International Textile Competition ’99 - Kyoto. Museum of Kyoto, Japan.
  • Natural Resources. Ruthin Crafts Centre, 1998. ISBN 1 9000 941 14 7.
  • Knot as They Seam: Puns and Permutations in Fibre Arts. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA.
  • Catalogue to accompany solo show. Essay by John Gillet. Southern Arts Touring, 1997. ISBN 1 873451 31 8.
  • British Art Textiles. Foreword by Barbara Taylor, essays by Linda Theophilus and Judith Ellen Duffey [Harding]. Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, 1996. ISBN 0 9528639 0 1.
  • Flexible 2 Pan European Art. Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, 1996. ISBN 90-70962-27-6.

Conference/symposium presentations

  • ‘Shades of Grey’, reflections in relation to Minimalism and monochrome painting, Day School - Colour in Textiles, Macclesfield Silk Museum, 7th July 2007.
  • Pushing Boundaries symposium on national and international crafts practice, Staffordshire University in collaboration with Craftspace and Designer Maker West Midlands.
  • ‘Continuity of Touch - Textiles as Silent Witness’, Repeat Repeat Conference Paper, University of Chester, 19th, 20th April 2007.http://www.cpara.co.uk/events/repeatrepeat/repeat.html
  • Joint presentation with Kyoko Nitta, Through the Surface Symposium, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 22.04.05
  • Conference presentation - Creative Dates. A Conference of the North West Art and Design Research Group, 23-24.09.04
  • Keynote speaker, Textile Symposium, Celebrating Diversity in Stitch, Ruthin Craft Centre, 2.10.04
  • Seminar - Creative Dialogues 2 [joint presentation with Kyoko Nitta as part of Through the Surface, Collaborating Textile Artists from Britain and Japan], Bankfield Museum and Art Gallery, Halifax, 23.7.04
  • Keynote speaker, Cheshire Annual Art and Design Conference, Frodsham, Cheshire, 17.01.04
  • Seminar presentation, Textile Vocabularies, Innovation in Practice. 29.10.03, Herriot Watt University, Scottish Borders Campus, Galashiels            .
  • Seminar presentation, Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles. Crafts Council, London, 21.10.02.
  • ‘Mapping Territories - Defining Contexts’, Nomansland Conference, Bath City College, 23.3.02.
  • Kon’texst Locating and Developing Practice, seminar convenor and presentation of paper, Chester College of Higher Education, 6.10.01.
  • ‘Exchanging the Planks’ seminar presentation at Textile Forum, Knowle House, Sevenoaks, [Organised by Kent County Council and chaired by Professor Anne Morrell], 5.5.98.
  • ‘Three Weeks to Turn 348, Three Years to Turn Intuition Towards Understanding’, Ideas in The Making: Practice in Theory, conference presentation, University of East Anglia/Crafts Council, 25.4.98.
  • Textile Matters - a public debate on issues surrounding the production and status of contemporary art. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, [Chaired by Jennifer Harris as part of a programme of event accompanying Flexible 2: Pan European Art], May 1997

 


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