ANNE DYER
Anne Dyer likes learning new things and then doing them wrong to see what happens. She tries to learn a new craft every two or three years, ‘master’ it, teach it, and then pass on the teaching of it to her best student. She has trained properly in fashion and spent some time making theatrical costumes because they are more interesting than fashionable little numbers for fat women. She was a student at the Royal School of Needlework and Hammersmith College of Art. She then wandered the world teaching (and learning) various crafts, before settling as Crafts Advisor for Hereford County Council for seven years. In 1981 the chance came to start a very small Adult Education College for craft subjects, Westhope College, which has grown in size and reputation. She likes lace because it can be done in front of the TV. She also runs 100 hectares of forestry and a 14 hectare smallholding, and is run by three terriers and two cats.
Crossby Anne Dyer Copper wire and lurex cross 137x137cm | You can't stop things growingby Anne Dyer | Lineby Anne Dyer 15x180 Exhibited at Shape Shifting, 2014 |
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Metamorphosisby Anne Dyer Revolving unit showing the changes from frog spawn to frog, from circle to flower in geometry and thread. Various lace methods. 60 x 30 Exhibited at Shape Shifting, 2014 | My glass shall not persuade me I am oldby Anne Dyer Design developed from study of triangles. Copper wire lace 30 x 40 x 40 Exhibited at Shape Shifting, 2014 | Child and her dogby Anne Dyer Split ply figures are a fairly recent development by Peter Collingwood and me. I love trees and was drawn to this as my site. I thought a child in its branches looked natural. The dog just wanted to be there. Split ply in cotton hauser. Exhibited at Inside Out, 2010 |
Divergence of techniquesby Anne Dyer Moving in stages from conventional Torchon through variations of style and technique; adding experimental tatting, dye, foiling and embroidery. H70cm, W15cm. Exhibited at Divergence, 2008 | Full fathom fiveby Anne Dyer 'Of his eyes are pearls made’ inspired this interpretation of two pages from the sketchbook. H46cm, W152cm. Exhibited at Divergence, 2008 | Spiders in a barnby Anne Dyer Exhibited at Lace in a Barn, 2005 |
Where have all the flowers goneby Anne Dyer Exhibited at Lace in a Barn, 2005 | Cleave the wood and I am thereby Anne Dyer One of a series of seven 'floorboard' hangings featured in the exhibition Exhibited at Caught by a Thread, 1999 | Wood ghostsby Anne Dyer Exhibited at Caught by a Thread, 1999 |