Education
MA Arts & Creative Technologies Staffordshire University (2017 – 2020) (by negotiated study) in Embroidery
BA(Hons) Textile Surfaces First Class Staffordshire University (2014 – 2017)
Memberships
Embroiderers Guild
Awards
2020
Bradford Textile Society – LAPA Charitable Trust Award – 1st Prize
(An embroidered textile design for fashion/accessories for interior products, created using hand embroidery techniques)
Bradford Textile Society – The Clothworkers Company Award Section U1 – 1st Prize
(A material construction, for either fashion/accessories or interior products, produced by non-conventional processes and/or materials or by new technologies)
2017
Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery Student Fashion 2nd Place
Bradford Textile Society – The Clothworkers Foundation Award – Commendation
( A material construction, for either fashion/accessories or interior products, produced by non-conventional processes and/or materials or by new technologies)
Madeira Student Sponsorship
Exhibitions
Qube Oswestry Creativity in Isolation (2020)
Hand & Lock The Bishopsgate Institute (2017)
New Designers (2017)
Staffordshire University Graduate Show (2017)
Press
2020
Resin8 Meet the Resin8er – Week 1
Stitchery Stories Podcast Claire Edwards
2018
Staffordshire University Press Release Hand & Lock
Mr X Stitch The Funk Files: Embroidery Frontiers – Meet Claire Edwards
Embellished Talk Interview
2017
Embroidery Magazine – Ones to Watch
Whitchurch Herald Mature student wins international embroidery prize
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