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Exhibitions
WEAVERS UPRISING BICENTENNIAL. Commission. Venues to be announced. 2025/26
A STITCH IN TIME. Solo Retrespective. Lancaster Litfest 2024
SOMETHING IN COMMON. Blackwell Arts and Craft House. June-October 2022
THE KNITTING AND STITCH SHOW. Harrogate. 2022
BRITISH TEXTILE BIENNIAL. Commissioned artist. 2021
CONTEXTILE. Textile Art Biennial. Portugal. 2020
RESISTANCE STITCH. Solo exhibition. Needle museum. Redditch. 2020
HOWARTH ART GALLERY . Group exhibition. 2020
RESTORE. Storey Institute. Main Gallery. Lancaster. 2018
MUIR TRUST. Solo exhibition. Bucks County Museum. 2017
100 HEARTS. Guild. Guest artist. 2018
SEW WHAT. Dukes gallery. Lancaster. Solo exhibition. 2017
CONTEXTILE. International group exhibition. Porto. Portugal. 2016
EUROPEAN PATCHWORK. International group exhibition. France. 2016
RIGA INTERNATIONAL. Group exhibition. Riga. Latvia. 2015
FABRIC OF SOCIETY. People’s History Museum. Manchester. 2015
STITCH THIS. Storey Institute. Lancaster. Solo exhibition. 2014
DIGITAL ENCOUNTERS. Univ. for the Creative Arts. Canterbury. 2014
HANGING BY A THREAD. Sunbury walled garden gallery. London. 2013
EUROPEAN QUILT TRIENNIAL. Germany. 2012
Commission
THE OLD OAK. Banner for Ken Loach and Studio Canal. 2023
KINDER SCOUT TRESPASS 90TH Anniversary Banner. 2022
LAKELAND ARTS. New works shown at Blackwell Arts and Crafts House. 2022
BRITISH TEXTILE BIENNIAL. New works shown at Helmshore Mill and Museum, Lancaster Castle and Nelson Clarion Club House. 2021
BUCKS COUNTY MUSEUM and ART GALLERY. New works and exhibition. 2017
HARRIS MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY. Preston. Artist in Residence. 2016
Publication
ATELIERS D’ ART magazine. Image and article. 2025
A STITCH IN TIME: a textile work unpicking our prison system. Contemporary Voices. St Andrews Journal of International Relations. 2023
TEXTILE Portraits. People and Places in Textile Art. Batsford Books. 2023
CRAFT magazine. Image and article. Sept/Oct. 2021
COVER magazine. image and article. 2021
LANCASHIRE Life magazine. Interview, image and article. September. 2021
EMBROIDERY Magazine. Cover image and feature article. May/June. 2019
SIGHT. Sotheby international. Image and article. 2017
TEXTILES. The Art of Mankind. Mary Schoeser. Thames & Hudson.2012
Awards
Brenda M King prize for critical writing. First Prize. 2023
Muir Trust Artist Residency Award. 2017
Textile Society. Professional development award winner. 2014
James’s work is incongruous in that from a distance it looks like it could simply be a pattern, but up close it starts to unfold into social commentary. if you engage with it, it will reveal things to you. CRAFTS magazine
