Bio

Jenni Dutton Artist

Lives and works in Somerset. England 

DOB 9/2/1951

Education

1997-99 Post graduate modules, Plymouth University, Exeter

1995-96 Introduction to Art Therapy, Exeter University

1969-73 Byam Shaw School of Art, Diploma in Fine Art

1968-69 St Martins School of Art, Foundation

Work in Public Collections

FIT Fashion Institute of Technology New York - Hair Dress

Museum of London.  Collection of 2 protest cloaks, masks and banners

Horniman Museum London - Blonde Hair Dress and Shoes

Standard Chartered Bank, Head Office, London - Dementia Darning ‘Mum With White T-shirt and Black Cardigan

Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset - Landscapes

The Priests House Museum, Wimborne, Dorset ‘Dolls Prosthetic Leg’ from The Mending Project

Atheneaum Hotel, Park Lane, London - Corset - Mosaic Torso

The Park Hotel, Hertfordshire, England - Memory Dress 1

Royal Caribbean cruise ship, 'Orion'  - mosaic  - ‘Birds Alighting’   August 2015

Exhibitions

2025-6. Dress Dreams and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis.
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. View exhibition.

2025.    Tewksbury Abbey. Dementia Darnings

2025.     Jersey Arts Centre Chanel Islands, DementiaDarnings

2024     SILVER LINING. Hatch Collective  Langport. November weekends

2024     OPEN ABOUT IDENTITY open exhibition East Quay Watchet. Winner of the Audience Favourite Prize £1,000

2024.    Spike Island Bristol.  Exhibition   (UN)BROKEN MEMORIES.  July 25-29

2024.    Fashion Show VOID Hatch Collective East Quay.  April 13

2024.    The Stitch Festival Business Design Centre, London.  March 21-24

2023.   Shapeshifting, SAW, East Quay, Watchet, Studio10           

2023.   The Dementia Darnings, ACE Somerton, Somerset

2023.   The Dementia Darnings, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral

2023.   Fashion Show, The Party At The End Of The World, East Quay, Watchet

2022.   Residency, Studio10, East Quay, Watchet.  Focusing on Climate, XR August

2022    Hearth Gallery, Llandough Hospital, Cardiff - The Dementia Darnings.

2022    Absurd Sewn Selfies, ACE Art, Somerton, Somerset

2021.   Horniman Museum Forest Hill London.  ‘Hair: The Untold Stories’.

2021.   The Party At The End Of The World... performance ClimateCrisisCloak and Headdress. Music - Dead Can Dance, Host Of Seraphim

2021.   Dementia Darnings, Hereford Cathedral

2019.   Solo show Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset

2019.   Group show. ‘Museum For Object Research. ‘Neither Use Nor Ornament’ OVADA gallery Oxford

2018.   Knitting and Stitching shows in London, Harrogate and Dublin

2018.   Fibre Art in The Care Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2018.   Hair:Human Stories  The Library Space, Battersea, London                      

2017.   Textile Biennale, Rijswijk Museum, The Hague, Holland

2017.   b-side Festival, Portland, September

2017    Festival of Quilts, NEC, The Dementia Darnings with Through Our Hands

2017    Bridport Arts Centre for Dementia Awareness Week

2017    Solo show Ace Arts Somerton, Somerset. 'The Dementia Darnings'

2017   'Memories' Salisbury Arts Centre January/ February

2016  'Mending Revealed' Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset.

2016  'Mother Love', Sidcot Arts Centre, North Somerset

2015  'textiles reimagined,' Birmingham City University, Parkside Gallery

2015    Dementia Darnings solo show City Hall, London

2014  'Dresses and Darnings' solo show Walford Mill Craft Centre Wimborne Dorset

2013   A Journey: The Nature of Mending, touring show

2013    April - May 'Mother Love' with Ingrid Hesling at  Stroud International Textiles Festival

2012   September ‘Mother Love’ Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon

2012  ‘Braided Together’ New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge

2012 BHVU Gallery, Stoke Newington, London

2011  ‘Echoes and Traces’  Musgrove Gallery, Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset

2011 - ‘Transient Threads’, Cotley Barn, Chard, Somerset SAW

2009    Affordable Art Fair, London

2008    Art London Art Fair, Glasgow Art Fair

2006/7/8    Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London

2007    Portal Gallery, London, Mixed Exhibition

2006   January London Art Fair, Islington

2006    ‘Self-centred’, Artsreach, Dorset

2005   January 'Intimate Space’, Cube 3 Gallery, University of Plymouth

2004-6  March 'Footsteps’ touring show, linking museums and contemporary practice.

2004    June ‘Transart Pass Art On', Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton

2003    March to October Quilt Bonanza, The American Museum, Bath

2001    Commission for Mulberry Store, New Bond Street, London.

2001   May The Arches, Glasgow, Fashion Festival, Intervention 2001

2001    March to November The American Museum, Bath, ‘Inspirations’

1999    January Solo show, Phillips Gallery, Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton

Residencies, Workshops, Public Art

2022/3  Residency at East Quay, Studio10 Watchet

2012-16 The Journey, Exploring the Nature of Mending, Wimborne Dorset

2012      Sensing the Past Reminiscence Project, Art for Life, Musgrove Park Hospital

2006-13 Residency in Children’s Centres, Weston super Mare

2005/6   Bath and North East Somerset, 5x5x5 Research project, Early Years Residency

2005/6  ‘Artist on Trains, Moving On', Somerset Arts Works

2005/7   Visiting lecturer, Bath Spa University, Fashion Textiles Degree Course

2004      Public art project sponsored by Taunton Deane, mosaic shrine. Hurstone Farm.

2002      Debenhams Department store, Taunton, Somerset Arts Week. Residency

Podcasts

‘Well I Know Now...’ with Pippa Kelly  No10 3 November 2020

Stitchers Stories ‘Capturing The Complexities Of Ageing Through Textiles’.  10 June 2020

YouTube Video ‘Stunning Embroidery Exhibitions (No5) The Dementia Darnings 2019 Arnold’s Attic

Publications

Narrative Textiles: Telling Your Story in Mixed Media and Stitch  by Alisha Henderson BATSFORD books

Textile Portraits. People and Places in Textile Art by Anne Kelly Published by BATSFORD

Resurgence & Ecologist Issue 332. Unravelling Thoughts PL Henderson

Unravelling Women's Art. Creators, Rebels and Innovators in Textile Arts  by Paula Henderson.  Published by Aurora Metro Books £19.99

TEXTILE magazine... article The DementiaDarnings published online 2021

Textiel Plus.  Article accompanying Textile Biennale at the Museum Rijswijk, The Hague

Article in Embroidery Magazine 'The Long Goodbye'  2015

Crafts Magazine May/June 2015 Front

Talk at SAW Symposium SCAT Taunton 2014

Talks to Embroiders Guild Bristol 2009, Bridgewater 2014 and others

Front cover ‘Textiel Plus’ Najaar 2004 Dutch textiles magazine

Featured in The Big Issue November 2004

‘Decode’, Arts and Creative Culture magazine, Issue 1, March April 2002

Catalogue, ‘Inspirations, The American Museum in Britain, Bath, North Somerset

Television Programmes

BBC 2 – Contemporary Visions – 15 min film featured on the Learning Zone, December 2003

HTV ‘In the Making’ – artists who use memories as a subject

Interviewed by Wayne Hemmingway The Big Breakfast, Channel 4, August 1st 2001

Radio Programmes

BBC Radio Somerset Interview about Hair dress and Snake Cloak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dsz13n