Caroline Bartlett

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Education
MA in Public Art; Theory and Practice Chelsea School of Art
​Postgraduate Diploma in Textile Art, Goldsmith College
Postgraduate Diploma in Printed Textiles, Leeds College of Art
BA (Hons) in Printed Textiles, Central School of Art and Design

Public Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, Crafts Council, Bankfield Museum, Embroiderers Guild

Grants and Awards
2019   
Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles, Festival of Quilts. Commendation
2016   
Arts Council 'Behind the Wall',  Mirador Arts 
2014   
8th International Fiber Art Biennale; From Lausanne to Beijing. Award of Excellence
Select Festival. Hartlebury Prize
2011   
Black Swan Arts Award. First Prize
2003   
Crafts Council 'British Crafts in Japan'.  Research award 
2002   
Crafts Council 'British Crafts in Japan'.  Research award 
2000   
London Arts Board Award to Individual Artists
1999   
London Arts Board Award for 'The Artists Journey'

Public Commissions
2020 
Spirit of Adventure cruise ship through SMC Consultancy
2014   
Newark Park , Gloucestershire; Select Festival
2003 
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2003   
Argent PLC, for Brindley Place, Birmingham through CAA
2001   
Weiner Library, London
'Textiles on Site' Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, commissioned by Parks and Leisure Services and Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
 
Solo Exhibitions
2021 
'A Restless Dynamic', Crafts Study Centre, Farnham Surrey, UK

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2018   
'Open Stal', Hawar Textile Institute, Oldeberkoop, Netherlands
2010  
'Black and White'. Circus, London curated by Contemporary Applied Arts
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Selected Exhibitions
2025
'Joy in the Detail' Craft Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey,
'Field Notes: an art survey'. ​ Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
2024 
'Ways of Seeing- Impact, Women Artists to Collect'. Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
'RWA Open 171,' Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
'Making as Learning'. Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford
'Discourse; Art across Generations and Continents'. Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
'Tailored'. Sunny Bank Mill, West Yorkshire touring to The Hub, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
2023
'CAA75'. Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2022
'Warp, Weft, Stitch, Thread'. Gallery 57 Arundel, West Sussex
2020
'Volume 50: Chronicling Fiber Art for Three Decades', Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
'Unbound; Visionary Women Collecting Textiles'. 2 Temple Place, London
'Conversations'. St Barbes Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire
2019
'Control/Shift; New Directions in Textile Art', a 62 Group show touring to National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. MAC, Birmingham 
'Construct', Sunny Bank Mill, West Yorkshire
2018
'Blue/Green colour/code/context'. Browngrotta Arts, Wilton CT, USA
2017
'Behind the Wall'. Lancaster City Museum
'VII Biennale Internacional'. Invited artist. Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
2016
'SOFA'. Chicago curated by Browngrotta Arts
'Making Space'. Macclesfield Silk Museum with 62 Group
'Ornament'. Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
'Artboom - Celebrating Artists Mid Century, Mid Career'. Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
2015
'Rijswijk Textile Biennial'. Rijswijk Museum,The Hague, Netherlands
'Meticulous Stitchers'. Unit 12 Gallery, Tixhall, Stafford
2014
'8th International Fiber Art Biennale; From Lausanne to Beijing'. Nantong, China
'Shadow and Line', Museum in the Park, Stroud,  Gloucestershire
'Selected'. Newark Park National Trust property, Gloucestershire
2013
'Rendezvous Goldsmiths', Ruthin Craft Centre
'Cloth and Memory'. Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire

2012
'62@50'. Holden Gallery, MMU, Manchester touring to Kyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2013
2011
'Black Swan Contemporary Craft'. Frome, Somerset
'Stimulus'. Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
2010
'Focus'. Contemporary Applied Arts, London
'Bending the Line'. The Hub, Sleaford, Lincolnshire and touring to Rijswijk Museum, The Hague, Netherlands. Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2009
'The Third Wave'. Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
'Collect', Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2008
'Size Matters', Rochester Art Gallery, Kent
2007 
'Collect', Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2006
'Beyond Weaving: International art Textiles' Flinn Gallery, USA
'Tracing Threads.' Hove Museum, Hove, West Sussex 
Trace and Echoes'. Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2005
'SOFA'. New York curated by Browngrotta Arts, USA
'Collect'. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
'Capturing the Essence - a sense of place', 2 person show. Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2004
'Ragged Beauty; Repaired Textiles and other Objects'. MOCFA, San Francisco, USA
'Sculpted Surface'. Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne , Australia 
'Palmbeach Contemporary'. Florida represented by Browngrotta Arts, USA
Orie Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 
'Of Material Concern'. 62 Group. Milenium Galleries, Sheffield, 
'Collect' Victoria and Albert Museum London represented by Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2003
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
'SOFA'. Chicago and New York represented by Browngrotta Arts, USA
'The Common Thread; Finding Fiber in Contemporary Art'. Westport Arts Centre, CT, USA
'Material Space'. Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
'In Context'. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2002
HBO Corporate gallery, New York, curated by Browngrotta Arts, USA
'Survey Fiber 2002'. Snyderman Works Galleries, Philadelphia, USA
'SOFA' Chicago represented by Contemporary Applied Arts, London
'A Collective Response'. Bankfield Museum, Halifax, UK
2001
'SOFA' New York. Represented by Contemporary Applied Arts, London
'From Across the Pond'. Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, USA
2000-2
'Art Textiles II'. Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Bury St Edmunds and touring
1999
'The Artist' Journey. ' Leighton House and Orleans House, London
1996-98
'Art Textiles I'. Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Bury St Edmunds

1999
'The Artist' Journey. ' Leighton House and Orleans House, London
1996-98
'Art Textiles I'. Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
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