b. 1964 Paris, France
Lives and works in West Yorkshire, UK
EDUCATION
2000 Msc Interactive Multimedia Production, Huddersfield University
1989 (1st Class) BSc(Hons) Textile Design Huddersfield Polytechnic
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2018 A Tale of Thread & Colour, Water Street Gallery, 24 Water Street, Todmorden
OL14 5AB West Yorkshire, UK (13 Sept – 28 Oct)
PRIZES
2015 Best Picture in Show, Great North Art Show 2015
2015 Best Emerging Textile Artist, Embroidery Magazine, SIT Select Showcase 2015
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Wisps & Whispers, The Gallery, Anthropologie, 131-141 King’s Road, London SW3 4PW (08 Sept – 22 Oct)
2016 The Common Thread, Calver Gallery, South Square, Thornton, Bradford BD13 3LD (4 – 27 March 2016)
2014 Entangled, Queenies, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire UK (10 March – 7 April)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / FAIRS
2017 Handmade at Kew, The International Contemporary Craft Event, Kew gardens, London UK (12-15 Oct)
2017 Art Festival Art Fair, The Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith CA11 0DQUK (09 – 10 Sept)
2017 Holmfirth Artweek, Civic Hall, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, UK (02 – 08 July)
2017 The Contemporary Craft Festival, Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey, Devon (09 – 11 June)
2017 Branching Out, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, City Art Gallery, Leeds, LS1 3AB (18 March – 24 June)
2017 Textile Textures, Walford Mill Crafts, Wimborne, Dorset BD21 1NL (29 April – 4 June)
2017 In With The New, Silson Contemporary Art, Harrogate HG2 0DS (21 Jan – 02 March)
2017 Winter Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Stoddart Street NE2 1AN Newcastle Upon Tyne (11 Nov 2016 – 02 March)
2016 Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Old Granada Studio, Manchester (06 – 09 October )
2016 The Art Market YORK, York Race Course UK (30 September – 02 October)
2016 Art in Action, Waterperry Nr Oxford (14-17 July 2016)
2016 Holmfirth Artweek, Civic Hall, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, UK (03 – 09 July)
2016 The Contemporary Craft Festival, Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey, Devon (10-12 June 2016)
2016 The North, Masham Gallery, Masham, North Yorkshire, HG4 4EB (28 May – 03 July 2016)
2015 The Artroom Gallery, Garstang, Lancashire, UK (5 November – 26 January 2016)
2015 SIT Select Showcase, Cheltenham Town Hall, Gloucestershire, UK (23-25 October)
2015 Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Old Granada Studios, Manchester (8-11 October)
2015 The Art Market YORK, UK (2 – 4 October)
2015 Magnetic North Art Fair, Dean Clough, Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK (5-6 September)
2015 Great North Art Show, Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire, UK (29 August – 20 September)
2015 Kunsthuis Art Gallery, Crayke, North Yorkshire, UK (26 August – 27 September)
2015 Holmfirth Artweek, Civic Hall, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, UK (5 – 11 July)
2015 Fibre, Rural Art, The Old Courthouse, Thirsk, North Yorkshire UK (3 July – 4 September)
2015 Textile & Texture, Enjoy Art, Marsden, West Yorkshire, UK (4 June – 15 July)
2015 The North and Beyond, Grassington Festival, North Yorkshire UK (23-27 June)
2015 Connections, Enjoy Art, Marsden, West Yorkshire, UK (February – 31 May)
2015 Saltaire Arts Trail, Open Houses, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire UK (23 – 25 May)
2015 Landscape Harmonies, The Arc Gallery, Chester, Cheshire UK (12 March – 12 May)
2014 Connections, Huddersfield ArtStation, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire UK
2014 Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Old Granada Studios, Manchester, UK
2014 The Garden of Earthly Delights, Waterstreet Gallery, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK
2014 Same But Different, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, West Yorkshire UK
2014 Holmfirth Artweek, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, UK
2014 Down to Earth, The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire UK
2014 Textile! Huddersfield ArtStation, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire UK
2013 Winter Season Open Exhibition, Waterstreet Gallery, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK
2013 Holmfirth Artweek, Holmfirth Civic Hall, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire UK
2013 Art in the Pen, Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, North Yorkshire
2013 New Mills Arts, Derbyshire Open Arts, New Mills, Derbyshire UK
2012 Holmfirth Artweek, Holmfirth Civic Hall, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire UK
PRESS
2017 Country Living Magazine, Emporium, p12, February (colour reproduction)
2016 The Biscuit Factory: ‘Spotlight On Textile Artist Valerie Wartelle’, p11, The Biscuit Factory Magazine Issue #19, November /March 2017
2016 Eloïse Sentito: ‘Conversation with craftspeople: light, colour, technique, tools, process, livelihood, story and business model’. These Isles, weavingtheseisles.wordpress.com, 13 June
2016 Embroidery Magazine, The Way of Felt, p38-41, May/June (colour reproduction)
2014 Craig: ‘Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 2014 Part 2’, Fishink Blog, 17 October
2014 Embroidery Magazine, What’s On, p57, March/April (colour reproduction)
2013 Pindar, John:‘New Mills Arts’, Notes to the Milkman, blog, 27 May
2013 Bladou, Franck: ‘Single Art’, Quotiriens, LeMonde.fr blog, 17 February
COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom.
TEACHING – TALKS
2015 – Current Day workshops, weekend residencies and talks to textile groups, guilds & associations
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