Watch my Friday Feature Artist interview with Fibre Arts Take Two : https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/articles/rhodes/
c u r r e n t e x h i b i t i o n
Shelley is currently exhibiting at Timeless Textiles, Newcastle, NSW Australia
b r o k e n a n d r e p a i r e d
‘Broken and Repaired’ is a group exhibition, exploring how we mend and respond to the concept of fragility. Each artist was asked to ‘repair’ a broken or unfinished object that they had found - sometimes hidden away in life’s clutter, implying that each of these pieces has held some importance and intentionally not discarded, before being mended or repaired.
https://timelesstextiles.com.au/.../joining-threads-saqa.../
p r e v i o u s e x h i b i t i o n
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the Textile Study Group, a collective of textile artists who have been at the forefront of the discipline as both practitioners and teachers. Since its inception in 1973, and originally established to support tutors of embroidery, the group has evolved and grown in stature and is now one of the UK’s most prestigious and respected groups of textile artists and tutors.
I am exhibiting my piece, 'Entangled'. This work highlights the problems caused by discarded plastic found in seas and oceans. Plastic causes injury and destruction when it becomes entangled around marine life. 'Entangled' consists of fifty metres of salvaged plastic found washed up on beaches, stitched together and wrapped with fishing line and plastic rope.
o n l i n e c o u r s e
Shelley has worked with Fibre Arts Take Two to create a new signature online course.
If you are ready to combine your love of mixed-media and textile art and explore some of the themes covered in Shelley’s latest book ‘Fragmentation and Repair’ this is the course for you.
The next course will be released in Summer 2026
Use the link below to register your interest and be the first to know further details as we get closer to the release date
https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/shelleyrhodes/
e x h i b i t i o n s
August 2025 Broken and Repaired Timeless Textiles, Newcastle, NSW Australia
January 2025 Celebrating Wool Farfield Mill, Sedbergh
April 2023-4
Making:50 Tweedale Gallery, Peebles, Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham
July 2021 Insights Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham
June 2021 Through the Locking Glass Rheged, Cumbria
May 2017 - July 2018 DIS/rupt SIT Select, Museum in the Park, Stroud
touring to Gallery Oldham, Minerva Gallery, Llanidloes and Tweedale Museum and Art Gallery, Peebles
October 2017 Page 17 K&S Show London, Harrogate - touring to NEC Birmingham, Harborough Museum, Leicestershire and Artix, Bromsgrove
June 2016 From the Earth Textiles Mardleybury Gallery, Hertfordshire
October 2015 Kutch to Kantha Farfield Mill, Sedbergh
June 2015 Traces of Life Dalarna Museum, Falun, Sweden
September 2014 Dirtying the Paper Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
June 2014 Open Up North Brewery Arts Centre/Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal
October 2013 Pinpoint One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks.
June 2013 Multiples Gallery 23, Arteria, Lancaster
March 2013 Print Additions Lancaster Museum
February 2013 Transition The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
August 2012 Fragments Left Behind Farfield Mill, Cumbria
October 2011 Kendal Ye Auld Grey Town Kendal Museum
October 2011 Open Up North Brewery Arts Centre/Abbot Hall, Kendal
October 2011 Individual and Collective The Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Dublin and Harrogate
March 2010 The Big Inspiration Kendal Museum
March 2010 Green Door Sprung Open Farfield Mill, Cumbria
April 2010 Visual Thinking - Unpicked The Hub, National Design Centre, Lincolnshire
March 2008 Creative Dialogues The Bankfield Museum, Halifax. Touring to Walsall, Taunton, Peebles and Portsmouth