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Anne Kelly is a Kent based artist, author and tutor. She trained in Canada and at Goldsmiths College in London. She creates multilayered textile collages using vintage and reclaimed fabrics combined with machine and hand-stitching. She was an artist in residence at the Sussex Prairie Garden in West Sussex in 2014 and FIAF Abruzzo in 2018, an invited artist at the Prague Patchwork Meeting, World of Threads Festival in Canada for the past three events, Quilt en Beaujolais and Les Aiguilles en Luberon. She was a featured artist gallery at the Knitting and Stitching Shows in London Olympia and Alexandra Palace, Harrogate and Dublin.

Anne writes for ‘Workshop on the Web’, textileartist.org blog, and has had articles published in ‘Embroidery’, ‘Stitch’, ‘the Quilter’, ‘Pretty Patches’ and many other journals in the UK, Europe and the USA, including ‘Cloth, Paper, Scissors’ and ‘Fiber Art Now’.

Her books for Batsford press have been reprinted, the co-written ‘Connected Cloth’ and solo ‘Textile Nature’. ‘Textile Folk Art‘ was published in August 2018. Anne teaches and tutors throughout the UK and abroad for guilds and groups and private workshops. Her work was included on the GCSE Textile paper in 2016.

Anne believes in repurposing vintage and discarded textiles and uses techniques to collage and enhance these pieces of work in her practice and teaching. She produces commissions for private and public display. She is on the Crafts Council directory and member of the Society for Embroidered Work (S.E.W.) an international textile group.