LESLEY MILLAR - CURATOR

EXHIBITION ORGANISATION

1987-95

  • Visual Arts Co-ordinator and exhibition organiser Sevenoaks Festival including in 1993 'The Art Spirit', an exhibition of 40 artists from different disciplines - painting, sculpture, film, video and photography.

1994

  • Exhibition organiser Katerina Ivanisin Appeal
  • Organiser 'Transformations' exhibition Trinity Arts Centre
  • Co-ordinator Symposium 'Transformations - Shamanism and Land Art'

1995

  • Curator 3 exhibitions on the theme of 'Abstraction and Mark Making' Trinity Arts Centre
  • Co-ordinator Symposium 'Abstraction and Mark Making'

1996 Revelation Ehibition

  • Curator 'Revelation' Exhibition, 15 international textile artists, opening at Maidstone Library Gallery then touring nationally for 18 months, 8 venues including The Barbican and Dean Clough
  • Curator 3 exhibitions on the theme of 'The Figure In Art Today', Trinity Arts Centre
  • Co-ordinator Symposium 'The Figure In Art Today'

1997

  • Co-ordinator Symposium for 'Revelation' at The Barbican, London
  • Curator 3 exhibitions on the theme of 'Textiles Today', Trinity Arts Centre
  • Co-ordinator and Chair of Textile Forum

1998

  • Organiser taking 'Revelation' to The Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  • Curator Miniature Textiles, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto & ITAMI Museum of Art and Craft, Osaka, Japan

1999

  • Curator 'Jenny Ford - Recent Work', Rochester Art Gallery
  • Author Exhibition essay 'Jenny Ford'

1999-2001

  • Curator 'Textural Space: contemporary Japanese textile art'. Opening event of 'Japan 2001' a nationwide festival of Japan. Exhibition to tour U.K. May 2001-March 2002 with extensive education programme including international symposium

2001-04

  • Appointed Daiwa/AHRB Research Fellow at The Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College to research and set up an Anglo-Japanese Textile Research Centre and Mentoring Scheme.

2002

  • To Curate 'From the shadow to the light', exhibition of woven textiles at Contemporary Applied Arts London

Also a practising textile artist with her own studio since 1975.

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