Dame Fiona Reynolds and Louise Gardiner holding 'A National Treasure'
bought for the National Trust Manchester Office 2011.
bought for the National Trust Manchester Office 2011.
- Louise has been selected for the Project Space at COLLECT , The Saatchi Gallery, May 2012 where she will be exhibiting a sequence of 5 large embroidered canvasses. COLLECT is the premier annual fair in Europe for international contemporary craft of museum quality.
- Louise has some beautiful Limited Edition Prints available to order for Valentines such as 'Follow your Heart' and 'Because I love you'. These signed and numbered fine art paper prints will take approximately 1 week to deliver in the UK. Please see the Limited Edition Prints page.
- Please vote for Louise in the Craft and Design Selected Awards. The aim of this competition is to acknowledge excellence in craft and design skills and to help designer makers in the Britain Isles to promote and sell their work and progress with their careers.
- Louise is presently working on various commissions including a large embroidered artwork for The Royal Oldham Hospital and Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust. She has been liasing with the staff and patients at both Rochdale and Oldham Hospital in her research.
- She was recently awarded 'Best Northern Maker' at the 2009 Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, described as 'one of Britain's Best Loved Embroidery artists' in 'Embroidery Magazine' October 2009. Louise was interviewed about contemporary embroidery by Jenny Murray on Radio Four's Women's Hour.
- In November 2010 Louise was featured on 'Kirstie's Homemade Home' teaching Kirstie Allsopp a Master Class on how to draw with a sewing machine. Kirstie exclaimed that Machine embroidery was the 'crack cocaine of craft' as she whizzed around on Louise's machine. Louise will be teaching on a creative retreat at Bedruthan Steps Hotel in April and will also be running her SUPERSTITCHERS Courses at Quarry Bank Mill in June. Please see the workshop page for dates and information.
- As one of the UK's most contemporary embroidery artists, Louise was invited overseas to promote her dynamic approach to embroidery for the Association of New Zealand Embroiderer's Guilds biannual conference for a three month tour in 2010.
