Debbie Lyddon MSDC
Stitched & Constructed Textiles
Debbie’s creative practice explores landscape and place and includes mixed media cloths, sculpture, installation and drawing. Her inspiration comes from experiencing and paying attention to her surroundings.
Debbie’s interest lies in how we perceive natural phenomena – air, wind, water, light and sound – in the environment. Her inspiration comes from walking, noticing and collecting. As an artist and a musician her work is not only inspired by things that can be seen but also by things that can be heard and touched. Debbie’s current practice explores coastal locations and the processes of change that are engendered on the landscape and the objects in it.
Cloth and traditional utilitarian hand-stitching are the foundation of Debbie’s work. Cloth is found in coastal environments in the form of tarpaulins, boat covers and sails and she alludes to their functional purpose in her work. The materials that she uses in conjunction with cloth – salt, bitumen, wax, varnish – are substances that are found in a coastal location and they play an integral part in relating the cloth objects to their surroundings.
Debbie’s practice aims to evoke a multi-sensory interpretation of her surroundings to promote an awareness of the relationship between the visual, aural and tactile landscape.
Education
MA Contemporary Textiles (2009-2011) University of Hertfordshire
HE Dip Stitched Textiles (2005-2008) Bucks New University
Royal Academy of Music (1978 -1981)
Selected Exhibitions
2020
28 May – 14 June 2020, Place: Sight, Sound, Debbie Lyddon and Mary Morris, Handa Gallery, Wells Maltings, Staithe Street, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk NR23 1AN *POSTPONED*
2019
Ctrl/Shift, 62 Group of Textile Artists, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre , Scunthorpe
CONSTRUCT, 62 Group of Textile Artists, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, West Yorkshire
Moments of Being, Handa Gallery, Wells Maltings, Staithe Street, Wells-next-the-Sea,
CTRL/Shift, 62 Group of Textile Artists, The National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford
2018
Autumn 2018, Colour Notes (Studio 21) – Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Dublin, Harrogate
CTRL/Shift, 62 Group of Textile Artists, MAC Birmingham, Birmingham
CLEY 18, ‘The greater the distance the clearer the view’ – St Margaret’s Church, Cley
CONNECTION: OPEN 2018, Wells Maltings Trust, Wells Maltings, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk Wells Heritage Art Trail – The Quay, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Contemporary Textile Fair – Landmark Arts Centre, Ferry Road, Teddington
2017
The Sewing Machine Project, Studio 21, The Knitting and Stitching Shows, London, Harrogate and Dublin.
The Makers Art, Society of Designer Craftsmen North Surrey Group, Cranleigh Art Centre
Cley 17, Connectivity – St Margaret’s Church, Cley-next-the-Sea
The Archive Project – The Cello Factory, London
Making Space, The 62 Group of Textile Artists, Knitting and Stitching Show, Edinburgh,
Making Space, The 62 Group of Textile Artists, Spring Knitting and Stitching Show, London
2016
Moments of Being (solo show) – The Knitting & Stitching Shows, London and Harrogate
CLEY16: In Norfolk Now – St. Margaret’s Church, Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Making Space (The 62 Group of Textile Artists) – Macclesfield Silk Museum, Macclesfield
The Sewing Machine Project (Studio 21) – SIT Festival, Lansdown Gallery, Stroud
The Archive Project – Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere
2015
The Sewing Machine Project, Studio 21 – The Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park Arts Centre
The Sewing Machine Project Preview, Studio 21 – Select Showcase, Cheltenham
Chinese Whispers Selection, Studio 21 -The Well House Gallery, Horndon on the Hill
The Makers’ Art, Society of Designer Craftsmen North Surrey Group, The Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames
The 62 Group Now – Upfront Gallery, Unthank, Penrith, Cumbria
Designer Crafts at the Mall 2015 – The Mall Galleries, London
2014
Caught by the Tide (solo show) – Society of Designer Craftsmen Gallery, London
Landmark Autumn Art Fair – Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington,
Fine Art Quilt Masters – NEC, Birmingham
Preview of Fine Art Quilt Masters Shortlist – New Designers, London
2013
Chinese Whispers, Studio 21, The Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
Reflective Space,The Crypt Gallery, London
Landmark Contemporary Textiles Fair, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington
The shop within the show, Designer Crafts at The Mall 2013, The Mall Galleries, London
2012
Everyday Encounters, William Morris Gallery, London
Surface II, The Crypt Gallery, London
Group Exhibition, Hastings Arts Forum, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings
The Duration of Surface, The Attic at Lines of Pinner, Pinner
Newland House School (solo show), Vinery Gallery, Twickenham
Designer Crafts at the Mall, The Mall Galleries, London
Press
Handmade magazine, winter 2017, p38-41
https://issuu.com/ukhandmade/docs/uk_handmade_magazine_winter_2017
Ebb and Flow, Embroidery, July/August 2017, p44-49
Art Quilting Studio, Marshscapes by Rice Freeman-Zachery, Summer 2015
Work appears in:
Hannah Lamb: Poetic Cloth: Creating meaning in textile art, Batsford, 2019
Shelley Rhodes: Sketchbook Explorations: Mixed Media Approaches for Textile Artists, Batsford, 2018
Mandy Patullo, Textile Collage, Batsford, 2016
Alice Fox: Natural Processes in Textile Art: From Rust Dyeing to Found Objects, Batsford, 2015
Julia Triston, Contemporary Applique, Batsford, 2014
C. June Barnes, Exploring Dimension in Quilt Art, Batsford, 2012
Sandra Meech, Connecting Design to Stitch, Batsford, 2012
Kim Thittichai, Experimental Textiles, Batsford, 2009
Web Articles
TextileArtist.org e-book, Textiles: A response to Landscape, 2016
Debbie Lyddon: Art that Inspires, www.textileartist.org, 2016
Debbie Lyddon: Responding to Environment, www.textileartist.org, 2013
Aeolian Pipes and Air-songs Booklet
Professional Activities
Member and Chair of the 62 Group of Textile Artists’
Member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
Committee member North Norfolk Exhibition Project
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