CV

 CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Lesley Turner

Victoria British Columbia CANADA

Email - ravenmade@gmail.com. Cell – 250 858 1754

Website – lesleyturnerart.com. Blog - lesleyturner.blogspot.com

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

The Laundry Room, Goward House, Victoria BC 2021

Provinces, Fish Creek Library, Calgary AB 2020

Dissent, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC 2020

Dualities, Cre8ery, Winnipeg MN 2019

Currents Threads 19, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC 2019

Connected Heritage, New Iceland Heritage Museum, Gimli MN 2019

Forest and Sea and the Place Between, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC 2019

Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC 2019 - Juror’s Choice Award

Pathways, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC 2018

Current Threads 17, Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith BC 2017

Colour: A Personal Response, Artsea Gallery, Sidney BC 2017; Place des Arts, Coquitlam BC 2018

Eco-Threads, Coast Collective, Colwood BC 2017

World of Threads Festival 2016, Q E Park Community Cultural Centre, Oakville ON 2016

Edge of the Forest, Surface Design Assoc, Fish Creek Community Library, Calgary AB; Coast Collective Arts Centre, Victoria BC; Fibreworks Gallery, Sunshine Coast BC 2016                                  Women Hold up Half the Sky: An Exhibition in Celebration of International Women’s Day, The Bay Centre, Victoria BC 2016
Salish Sea, Sister Cities, Anacortes WA  2015                          
Edge of the Forest, Surface Design Association, Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, Art Square Gallery, Toronto ON; John M. Parrott Gallery,  Belleville ON; Fibre Arts 2015 Conference, Woody Point NL 2015
Current Threads 14, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo BC 2014                                                          Continuum, Sudpfalz, Herxheim, Germany 2013 

Current Threads I3, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria BC 2013
Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters, Cre8ery, Winnipeg MN; Frazee Gallery, Saint John, NB 2013
Continuum, World of Threads Festival, Oakville ON 2012                                                                        BA (Hons) Graduate Exhibition, Middlesex University, London, UK 2012
Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters, Brentwood Gallery, UK 2011
Women of Fibre: Mary Garnham Andrews and Articulation, Whyte Museum, Banff AB 2011       Current Threads 11, Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith BC 2011
Outlook, CACGV Gallery, Victoria BC 2010
Victoria College of Art Faculty Show, Polychrome, Victoria BC 2010                                                      Narrative Articulations, Victoria College of Art, Victoria BC 2010
Current Threads 2010, Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith BC 2010
Winds of Inspiration, Quilt Canada 2010, Calgary AB 2010
Urban Textures, Mennonite Heritage Gallery, Winnipeg MB 2009                                                           Unity and Diversity, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea 2009
Unity and Diversity, Discovery Gallery, Edmonton AB 2009
Urban Textures, McMullen Gallery, Edmonton AB 2009
No More White Walls, Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff AB 2009
Extraordinary Places, McMullen Gallery, Edmonton AB 2008                                                                  Meta Incognita, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax NS 2008
Strut Your Stuff, University Theatre, Calgary AB 2007                                                                             Meta Incognita, Banff Centre, Banff; Southern Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB 2007
Just For Fun, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB 2006                                                                        LINKS, fibreEssence Gallery, Vancouver BC 2006
Alberta Scene, National Arts Centre, Ottawa ON 2005                                                                             All About Alberta, Discovery Gallery, Edmonton AB 2005
Healing Through Fibre Art, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB 2004                                                      

 

ORGANISATIONS

Articulation Textile Group

Craft Council of British Columbia 

Studio Art Quilt Associates

Surface Design Association

Textile Society of America

Victoria Arts Council

Women’s Art Museum Society of Canada

 

EDUCATION

2014 Ecological Landscape Design, Gaia College, Royal Roads University, Victoria

2012 BA (Hons) 1st class Embroidered Textiles, Middlesex University, London, UK

2007 Certificate in Visual Design, University of Calgary, Calgary

2004 Level 3 Certificate in Design & Craft (Embroidery & Design), City & Guilds of London Institute, UK

2002 Level I Certificate in Design & Craft (Machine Embroidery), City & Guilds of London Institute, UK

1998 Master Knitter of Canada

1978 Diploma in Teaching, New Zealand

1975 BA Geomorphology, University of Otago, New Zealand

 

RESIDENCIES

2020 Pearson College UWC, Victoria BC

2015, 2016 Vancouver Island College of Art, Victoria BC 

2009 The Banff Centre, Banff AB

2008 Leighton Artist Colony, Banff AB