Lizzi Walton Artistic Director / CEO
Artistic director, Lizzi Walton formed SIT and has been a key strategic player in the development of the organisation. She has built the organisation and the annual festival over the 6 years to its present position of being a nationally recognised organisation with a reputation for excellence, ambition and innovation, representing textiles and related contemporary applied arts.
Lizzi has over 25 years experience working in the arts and with arts administration and project management. She has run her own business, in retail specialising in British Contemporary Arts and Crafts and 4 years direct experience in owning & running a Gallery exhibiting Contemporary Art and Applied Crafts. She attended Winchester Art College studying painting. She has taught in secondary schools running the arts department in Stockbridge Hampshire for 4 years. A short spell working with socially excluded young people in Gloucestershire. Following teaching she moved to London where she worked with a team organising and running the extensive Arts programme for the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for 8 years. Responsibilities involved the opening and marketing of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith alongside planning and promotion of theatre, visual arts, music and performance events.
She is a skilled and innovative coordinator with experience in marketing and press-work, with communication and organisation skills.
Fiona Haines had a successful career within the NHS working as a Specialist Nurse for the South West of England.
In conjunction with the King's Fund she participated in three European Medical Exchange Programmes in Czech Republic, Hungary and UK.
She has worked in the commercial sector and in the education sector as a Healthcare lecturer.
Now Fiona is an artist and designer, having graduated with a BA First Class Honours in Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors from Bath School of Art and Design.
Fiona's work amalgamates brightly coloured stitch work with highly engineered materials, linking tradition with innovation. Her designs have sold commercially and exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Frances Day
Frances has worked as an IT Consultant, and also as a publisher of fiction. She has always had a passionate interest in contemporary arts, particularly textiles (as a practitioner in a small way) and photography. Frances is a co-founder of the successful Wearable Art Painswick (WAP) event, for whom she provides web management and publicity services, and is also Chair of the local Embroiderers’ Guild. She brings a wide knowledge and experience of the arts to the organisation.
Nigel Morgan
Nigel Morgan advises arts and educational organisations on development. He is a composer and works at the heart of contemporary concert music in the UK. His current work of some 90 compositions includes many commissioned works in orchestral, chamber, vocal and digital media categories.
In the 1980s as the Arts Council's Music Animateur for the East of England he began an association with new technology, recording and performance that has become a continuous thread in his creative output, most recently in project work with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the ILIOS Festival. His music celebrates and re-invents many of the aspects of Renaissance and Baroque music whilst integrating novel features of open-form and computer-aided algorithmic composition. Nigel has recently developed a second career in woven textiles, particularly tapestry, studied at Bradford College, attended workshops with Sue Lawty and Fiona Hutchinson and is fascinated in the connection of textiles and music.
Sue Blacker
Sue Blacker is Managing Director of the Natural Fibre Company, which processes pure British wool into knitting and weaving yarns. The Company has recently acquired a dye plant using organically accredited dyes. She runs a successful online shop and catalogue that reaches a UK and international customer base.
Previously has worked on environmental, economic and social regeneration in the South West as chief executive of the Silvanus Trust and Groundwork Plymouth Area.
In a previous life was a stockbroker in the City.
Sue Gibbons
Sue Gibbons is Head of Art at Ribston Hall High school in Gloucester. Sue was appointed moderator for AQA GCSE Art & Design and teacher governor in 2008. She is studying for her second MA in Art Practice and Education at Birmingham City University. Sue attended Loughborough College of Art and Design, Virginia Commonwealth University USA, Gwent College HE where she studied painting and printmaking. Sue is a textile artist and has had work exhibited in exhibitions nationwide and has work in private collections. She has been artist in residence at and worked on multimedia projects with the community, one being with Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums in 2003. SIT works closely with Ribston Hall students and has placed artist in schools. Sue is keen to develop skills and artistic practice in schools; supporting local initiatives.
Anna Glasbrook
Anna Glasbrook creates striking contemporary textile pieces for domestic, corporate and public spaces. Using the effects of layering, transparency and the travelling line, she creates textiles that vibrate with vivid colour and movement. Anna's photographs of the rural and urban landscape are the fundamental starting point of her design process which is then translated into stitch. Anna has had work exhibited nationally and internationally, she graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA First Class Honours in Textile design in 2010.
Michelle Hendy – Bookkeeper
Katrina Douglas – Accounts
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Mary La Trobe- Bateman OBE is a freelance applied arts curator, consultant and lecturer with a passionate commitment to the creative arts.
Following graduation from the Royal College Arts, she practised interior design and ran her own gallery. In 1994 appointed Director of Contemporary Applied Arts in London, one of the UK's leading galleries for the Applied Arts and crafts.
Here Mary established a vibrant gallery and expanded the exhibition and education programmes.
Mary has served on many committees and selection panels including Crafts Council and Collect at the V & A. In 2001 Mary received the OBE for services to contemporary craft.
Jilly Edwards is one of the UK's leading tapestry weavers, studying at the West of England College of Art in the 60’s & then at Edinburgh College of Art during the 1980's. She is renowned for her use of colour and the painterly nature of her work - each piece is a meticulously crafted response to place and light. Edwards' has work in collections, both private & corporate in the UK, USA, Europe & Japan. Having taught part time in colleges for twenty years, she has spent the last twenty years working on commissions & exhibitions and lecturing in various countries.
Having exhibited nationally & internationally in both solo & selected exhibitions including Stroud International Textile Festival in 2007, she has recently exhibited at Ruthin Craft Centre with a retrospective, Reflections and Investigations, which traces her long standing interest in journeys, journeying and the process of weaving and features seminal works developed during four decades of practice alongside new pieces made specifically for the gallery at Ruthin.
Lulu Guinness OBE: famous for exquisite, witty handbags and accessories, launched her company in 1989 and instantly became a "must" in every fashion aficionado's international address book. Wild praise in the fashion media paved the way for Lulu Guinness shops in London, New York and Tokyo. Her unique creations are also sold in department and specialty stores worldwide, including Harrods, Selfridges and Fortnum and Mason in the UK, Brown Thomas in Ireland and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong.
The Advisory Board are consulted and enhance the work of the SIT Boards.
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