A SELECTION from my life as a tapestry weaver.....beginning with....
1973 – 77 Edinburgh College of Art
1978 – 80 Northern Arts Residency
1979 ....... LYC Gallery Cumbria plus tour
1978-82....3rd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles (Ann Sutton-British Crafts Centre)
1980.........First solo exhibition. Third Eye Centre, GLASGOW
1980........Sotheby’s Contemporary Crafts Sale
1980........The New Ashgate Gallery. Farnham, with David Leach, Henry Hammond, Harold Cheesman
1981....... Crafts Council loan to set up studio in Cumbria
1981........Prescote Gallery. Oxfordshire with Alison Britton, Annie Fewlass
1981... Lynne Curran Tapestries, Gawthorpe Hall (solo)
1981 New Faces, British Crafts Centre London
1981-82...Contemporary British Tapestry, Sainsbury Centre plus tour
................British Crafts Centre
1982 ......Lynne Curran Tapestries, Crawford Centre for the Arts, (SOLO exhibition)
1983.......Lynne Curran and Sue Lawty, Swarthmore Centre, Leeds
1983...... “Attitudes to Tapestry” John Hansard Gallery SOUTHAMPTON
1984........Chelsea Craft Fair. Kings Road. London
1984........Commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum for the textile collection
1985........Northern Arts Award. Exhibition at the Crafts Council shop at the V&A (solo)
1986....... International Biennale of Applied Art .PRIZEWINNER! Czechoslovakia
1987 .......Travel Award ITALY!
1987........ “ALL PART OF LIFE’S RICH TANGO” solo show, Southampton City Art Gallery
1988........European Arts and Crafts, World Crafts Council, Prizewinner, GERMANY (three tapestries lost in fire)
1988....... LA DAME AUX BELLES PLUMES Tapestry and working drawings Gallery 95 V&A museum ( solo )
1989....... Contemporary British Tapestry HUNGARY
1990 .......Artist in Residence and WAEWAETAPU masterclass tour, New Zealand, courtesy British Council
1991........Commissioned by the Guild of St. George to make 'GLORIA' for the RUSKIN Gallery Collection.
1992........ Artist in Residence, CANBERRA Institute of the Arts plus masterclass tour,courtesy British Council
1993........Theo Moorman Award
1994........ “LOOKING FOR ANGELS” Ruskin Gallery, solo exhibition
1995 ........Commissioned by Glasgow Museums for the GALLERY OF MODERN ART
1995 ........“A Connoisseur’s Choice” The Scottish Gallery, EDINBURGH
1995 ........OG DER VAEVEDER BILLEDER, Brodst, DENMARK
1996......... Woven Image – The BARBICAN Centre, London plus tour
1996......... “ THE HIDDEN HEART” solo exhibition, Burrell Museum, Glasgow
1997......... with Gerard Rigot and Lucy Casson at Alex Gerrard Fine Art, Sussex
1998 ........“In the Steps of Phoebe Anna Traquair” Edinburgh Festival Exhibition
1999......... Illustrations for “CATS BEHAVING BADLY” compiled by Michelle Lovric, Barnes&Noble, NY
2000 .........New Acquisition (The Hidden Heart) displayed in the Tapestry Hall at the BURRELL Museum, Glasgow
2000......... Miniature textiles. The Fine Line Centre Illinois U.S.A.
2001 .........Article for Weaver’s Journal published on SAX SHAW. Teaching Summerschools in Edinburgh studio.
Tapestry comes to SOFA CHICAGO, crafts council
to ......... Research for NEW work and trips to JAPAN (courtesy of Eric Young).
2004-2022 Lectures at Kyoto Seika and Tokyo Zokei Universities
2005.......... Lecture tour with Mitsunobu Matsuo and David Swift – SHANGHAI – Wuxi-- Nanjing
2006..........Penelope's Thread, V&A Museum
2006.......... Move to ITALY. Summerschools in newly restored medieval studio
2009......... Teaching and Demonstrations in JAPAN and AUSTRIA ( European Textile Conference)
2010.......... “Hot Cakes” drawings by me with ceramics by Fanette Cardinali, CITERNA Italy
2010......... Lecture and Workshop for Convergence and American Tapestry Alliance, Albuquerque and SANTA FÉ, New Mexico
2010......... Artiste di “Capriccioso e Destrissimo Ingegno”, autoritratte per La Galleria degli Uffizi, FLORENCE
(Lady artists of inspired and most dextrous ingenuity....Vasari)
2011 .........Self Portrait in tapestry ( The MONA LYNNE ) acquired for the Uffizi gallery collection of self portraits, Florence
......... Illustrations for ‘E Tu Che Bimbo Sei?' by Chiara Moretti
2015.........Painting the Sittingroom
2016.........STUFF and NONSENSE first combined works with DAVID SWIFT (textile and painted wood)
exhibition 'Tandem in Tandem' at Sant'Ambrogio, FLORENCE
2017.....opened Airbnb 'Luxury Cave | La Grotta di San Francesco'
2018...........Tutor at CHATEAU DUMAS, France, for Selvedge Magazine
2019 ........ Tutor at WEST DEAN,, UK
2019 ........ JULY and AUGUST, TAPESTRY in TUSCANY
2019......... TAOS, NEW MEXICO ....'design outside the lines' tutor with Diane Ericson
2020-22......painting the bathroom, learning italian and adopting Korky, Mimmi and Maximilliano (kittycats)
(OK, as well as working on 'ON AN OVERGROWN PATH' tapestry)
2024......... Helping to found a new library & programme of creative events in our mountain village
(no time left to run the Luxury Cave....but it was fun while it lasted)
2025.........MORE Tapestry in Tuscany courses, and tapestry in progress
Part-time and Visiting Lecturer in Tapestry and in Life Drawing at various Art Colleges, Museums, Libraries and Art Galleries
Workshops in hospitals for Royal National Institute for the Blind, Learning Disabilities and Dementia groups
British Craft Textiles. Ann Sutton (BATSFORD)
International Tapestry Journal
The New Textiles. Chloe Colchester (THAMES&HUDSON) with illustration printed upside-down
“Handmade” BBC film profile
“Looking for Angels”, BBC radio 4 interview (Woman’s Hour)
Artists Newsletter
Crafts Magazine,
The Journal for Spinners,Weavers & Dyers
“TAKE HEART” Quilter’s Review, by Liz Arthur
The Christian Science Monitor (articles by Christopher Andreae and Andy Christian)
FIBERARTS
ARTIST Magazine, Taiwan
Illustrations for 'Cats behaving Badly' compiled by Michelle Lovric (Barnes and Noble)
Weaver’s Handbook by AI HIKONE 2008
AUTORITRATTE "Artiste di Capriccioso e Destrissimo Ingegno" catalogue for the Uffizi exhibition
of new acquisition of female self portraits for the Vasari Corridor
Casentino 2000
Tapestry, A Woven Narrative (black dog publishing) 2011
Resurgence magazine 2012. Andy Christian
illustrations for ‘E Tu Che Bimbo Sei?’ by Chiara Moretti
HEN 2017 Amy Katoh, Tokyo
IN the NORTH WIND'S BREATH by ANDY CHRISTIAN 2018
STORIE D'AMORE by Enzo Fileno Carabba, CORRIERE FIORENTINO 2019
1973 – 77 Edinburgh College of Art
1978 – 80 Northern Arts Residency
1979 ....... LYC Gallery Cumbria plus tour
1978-82....3rd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles (Ann Sutton-British Crafts Centre)
1980.........First solo exhibition. Third Eye Centre, GLASGOW
1980........Sotheby’s Contemporary Crafts Sale
1980........The New Ashgate Gallery. Farnham, with David Leach, Henry Hammond, Harold Cheesman
1981....... Crafts Council loan to set up studio in Cumbria
1981........Prescote Gallery. Oxfordshire with Alison Britton, Annie Fewlass
1981... Lynne Curran Tapestries, Gawthorpe Hall (solo)
1981 New Faces, British Crafts Centre London
1981-82...Contemporary British Tapestry, Sainsbury Centre plus tour
................British Crafts Centre
1982 ......Lynne Curran Tapestries, Crawford Centre for the Arts, (SOLO exhibition)
1983.......Lynne Curran and Sue Lawty, Swarthmore Centre, Leeds
1983...... “Attitudes to Tapestry” John Hansard Gallery SOUTHAMPTON
1984........Chelsea Craft Fair. Kings Road. London
1984........Commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum for the textile collection
1985........Northern Arts Award. Exhibition at the Crafts Council shop at the V&A (solo)
1986....... International Biennale of Applied Art .PRIZEWINNER! Czechoslovakia
1987 .......Travel Award ITALY!
1987........ “ALL PART OF LIFE’S RICH TANGO” solo show, Southampton City Art Gallery
1988........European Arts and Crafts, World Crafts Council, Prizewinner, GERMANY (three tapestries lost in fire)
1988....... LA DAME AUX BELLES PLUMES Tapestry and working drawings Gallery 95 V&A museum ( solo )
1989....... Contemporary British Tapestry HUNGARY
1990 .......Artist in Residence and WAEWAETAPU masterclass tour, New Zealand, courtesy British Council
1991........Commissioned by the Guild of St. George to make 'GLORIA' for the RUSKIN Gallery Collection.
1992........ Artist in Residence, CANBERRA Institute of the Arts plus masterclass tour,courtesy British Council
1993........Theo Moorman Award
1994........ “LOOKING FOR ANGELS” Ruskin Gallery, solo exhibition
1995 ........Commissioned by Glasgow Museums for the GALLERY OF MODERN ART
1995 ........“A Connoisseur’s Choice” The Scottish Gallery, EDINBURGH
1995 ........OG DER VAEVEDER BILLEDER, Brodst, DENMARK
1996......... Woven Image – The BARBICAN Centre, London plus tour
1996......... “ THE HIDDEN HEART” solo exhibition, Burrell Museum, Glasgow
1997......... with Gerard Rigot and Lucy Casson at Alex Gerrard Fine Art, Sussex
1998 ........“In the Steps of Phoebe Anna Traquair” Edinburgh Festival Exhibition
1999......... Illustrations for “CATS BEHAVING BADLY” compiled by Michelle Lovric, Barnes&Noble, NY
2000 .........New Acquisition (The Hidden Heart) displayed in the Tapestry Hall at the BURRELL Museum, Glasgow
2000......... Miniature textiles. The Fine Line Centre Illinois U.S.A.
2001 .........Article for Weaver’s Journal published on SAX SHAW. Teaching Summerschools in Edinburgh studio.
Tapestry comes to SOFA CHICAGO, crafts council
to ......... Research for NEW work and trips to JAPAN (courtesy of Eric Young).
2004-2022 Lectures at Kyoto Seika and Tokyo Zokei Universities
2005.......... Lecture tour with Mitsunobu Matsuo and David Swift – SHANGHAI – Wuxi-- Nanjing
2006..........Penelope's Thread, V&A Museum
2006.......... Move to ITALY. Summerschools in newly restored medieval studio
2009......... Teaching and Demonstrations in JAPAN and AUSTRIA ( European Textile Conference)
2010.......... “Hot Cakes” drawings by me with ceramics by Fanette Cardinali, CITERNA Italy
2010......... Lecture and Workshop for Convergence and American Tapestry Alliance, Albuquerque and SANTA FÉ, New Mexico
2010......... Artiste di “Capriccioso e Destrissimo Ingegno”, autoritratte per La Galleria degli Uffizi, FLORENCE
(Lady artists of inspired and most dextrous ingenuity....Vasari)
2011 .........Self Portrait in tapestry ( The MONA LYNNE ) acquired for the Uffizi gallery collection of self portraits, Florence
......... Illustrations for ‘E Tu Che Bimbo Sei?' by Chiara Moretti
2015.........Painting the Sittingroom
2016.........STUFF and NONSENSE first combined works with DAVID SWIFT (textile and painted wood)
exhibition 'Tandem in Tandem' at Sant'Ambrogio, FLORENCE
2017.....opened Airbnb 'Luxury Cave | La Grotta di San Francesco'
2018...........Tutor at CHATEAU DUMAS, France, for Selvedge Magazine
2019 ........ Tutor at WEST DEAN,, UK
2019 ........ JULY and AUGUST, TAPESTRY in TUSCANY
2019......... TAOS, NEW MEXICO ....'design outside the lines' tutor with Diane Ericson
2020-22......painting the bathroom, learning italian and adopting Korky, Mimmi and Maximilliano (kittycats)
(OK, as well as working on 'ON AN OVERGROWN PATH' tapestry)
2024......... Helping to found a new library & programme of creative events in our mountain village
(no time left to run the Luxury Cave....but it was fun while it lasted)
2025.........MORE Tapestry in Tuscany courses, and tapestry in progress
Part-time and Visiting Lecturer in Tapestry and in Life Drawing at various Art Colleges, Museums, Libraries and Art Galleries
Workshops in hospitals for Royal National Institute for the Blind, Learning Disabilities and Dementia groups
British Craft Textiles. Ann Sutton (BATSFORD)
International Tapestry Journal
The New Textiles. Chloe Colchester (THAMES&HUDSON) with illustration printed upside-down
“Handmade” BBC film profile
“Looking for Angels”, BBC radio 4 interview (Woman’s Hour)
Artists Newsletter
Crafts Magazine,
The Journal for Spinners,Weavers & Dyers
“TAKE HEART” Quilter’s Review, by Liz Arthur
The Christian Science Monitor (articles by Christopher Andreae and Andy Christian)
FIBERARTS
ARTIST Magazine, Taiwan
Illustrations for 'Cats behaving Badly' compiled by Michelle Lovric (Barnes and Noble)
Weaver’s Handbook by AI HIKONE 2008
AUTORITRATTE "Artiste di Capriccioso e Destrissimo Ingegno" catalogue for the Uffizi exhibition
of new acquisition of female self portraits for the Vasari Corridor
Casentino 2000
Tapestry, A Woven Narrative (black dog publishing) 2011
Resurgence magazine 2012. Andy Christian
illustrations for ‘E Tu Che Bimbo Sei?’ by Chiara Moretti
HEN 2017 Amy Katoh, Tokyo
IN the NORTH WIND'S BREATH by ANDY CHRISTIAN 2018
STORIE D'AMORE by Enzo Fileno Carabba, CORRIERE FIORENTINO 2019