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‘Sow: Sew’ Touring Exhibition 2007-09 Pictured at Oldham Gallery. Photographer - Pip Rustage

Created during a residency in the textile craft department at the University of Huddersfield in 2006. Investigating the principles of hand craft with CAD technology and industrial processes. Exploring the industrial Dilo needle felt machine, the Amaya computerised embroidery machine and digital printing to consider the boundaries between hand and mass-production.

An exploration of images and issues around the sown seed to the sewn stitch. To compare the marks of industrial textile processes to the pattern of planting by mechanical processes on the land. The cultural difference of wild and cultivated planting in Spain and England. Dialogue and collaboration to expose unseen elements of land and plants. Scientist Mike Ambrose [genetic resources unit manager][at the John Innes Institute in Norwich provided a new language and perception in place and plants.

Exhibited at: Bankfield Museum, Halifax; Gallery Darlington; John Innes Centre Norwich; Gallery Oldham; Farfield Mill, Sedborough; Quay Arts, Newport and The Knitting and Stitch show. Funded by the Universoty of Huddersfield and the Arts Council Touring Program. Curatored by June Hill. © Jeanette Appleton 2018

Adaptive Landscape Series Large 170 x 105 – small 60 x105 cm 2006

Technique: Artist made needle felt and machine stitch.

Materials: Dyed merino wool, various plant fibres, synthetic organza and threads.

Photographer: Dewi Tannant Lloyd

‘Passing Through Series’ Various sizes

72 x 76 to 88 x 88 cm 2007

Technique: Artist made needle felt and machine stitch.

Materials: Dyed merino wool, various plant fibres, tourist scarves, synthetic organza and threads.

Photographer - Pip Rustage, detail artist.

‘Wrapping Up – End’ Installation at Oldham Gallery 2009.

Four lengths each 60 x 244 cm

Technique: Artist made embossed needle felt and print.

Materials: Dyed merino wool, various plant fibres, fabric flower petals, printing ink.

Photographer - Pip Rustage

‘Incubation – Beginning’. Detail of installation

at Oldham Gallery 2009.

Two lengths each 106 x 170 cm.

Technique: Hand stitch

Materials: Distressed synthetic organza, milliners stamens and thread.

Shelves made of four panels each15 x100 cm

Technique: Painted wood with drilled holes and print.

Materials: Plastic parts from fabric flowers, wood, thread and printing ink.

Photographer - Pip Rustage

Lightboxes: ‘Blue, Red & Yellow’ Scarf 58cm sq

Technique: Mechanical device, digital print and Amaya machine embroidery.

Materials: silk organza, threads, wild oats, light, glass, metal and wood.

‘Labelled Land Series: Protest Message’ [on wall] Each 45 x 50cm

Blue: ‘La Contraviesa has water for drinking!’

Red:‘Are they killing La Alpujarra so they can play golf?’

White:‘Unesco slams Contraviesa reservoir plans ’

Technique: Handfelt and Amaya machine embroidery.

Materials: Dyed merino wool, second hand scarf and threads.

Photographer - Pip Rustage

‘Marginal Land: Between ’ series 70 x 105 and 60 x105 cm.

Technique: Artist made needle felt.

Materials: Dyed merino wool.

Exhibited at the Knit and Stitch Show 2009.

Three works are available to purchase contact Jeanette on infoapptextiles@gmail.com

‘Are They Killing La Alpujarra So They can Play golf’ 2007 Mount 67w X 74h Work 45w x 49.5h cm.

Hand made felt, thread, fabric and machine stitch. Mounted on board £1200

’Marginal Land Between IV’ 86w x 105h x 2.5d cm Dyed merino wool, artist made needle felt.Mounted on wooden stretchers. £1,800

’Marginal Land Between V’ 86w x 105h x 2.5d cm Dyed merino wool, artist made needle felt. Mounted on wooden stretchers. £1,800

‘Nomad : Nomas’ solo show - Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire 2001.

The exhibition site housed in the UH Faculty of Law, provided the opportunity to initiate an enquiry into Appleton’s on going theme of the nomad and its associations with the law [Nomos], particularly that of ownership and security.

The work in the exhibition contrasts the regular paths of local daily life with the ephemeral routes on a nomadic journey. The body space and trace between the passage of transitory memories and the red cartography line and danger.

‘Verging I-VI’ series 38 x 135cm & 45 x 132cm. 2001

Technique: Hand felt and stitch, heat transfer printing.

Materials: Merino wool tops and plant fibres, second hand

scarves, threads and ink.

‘Inside : Outside’ 259 x 92 cm 2001 with detail.

Technique: Hand felt and stitch, heat transfer printing.

Materials: Merino wool tops and plant fibres,

second hand scarves, threads and ink.