background
Susie Koren is a textile artist and interior designer living and working in East Sussex. She trained at Chelsea School of Art in the 1980s and undertook the City & Guild Patchwork & Quilting Diploma in 2000 alongside studying surface design independently. Her investigation into methods of applying earth pigments to cloth led to the development of her soya milk binder based on a Japanese recipe
exhibitions
Selected and shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibitions Susie has exhibited widely in both Open Calls and textile exhibitions, winning the Selectors prize at The Royal Cambrian Academy Open in 2022 and The Fine Art Textile Award in 2015. Her work has been selected for The London Group Open, The Royal West of England and prestigious international quilt exhibitions.
Through exhibiting in the UK, Europe and the USA she has regularly sold work internationally as well as in the UK.
Her recognition in the quilt art world has led to interviews with The Textile Curator, quilt magazines and work being featured in textile art books.
exhibition history
2023
Discerning Eye Mall Galleries (selected)
Royal Cambrian Academy Annual Open,
8th European Quilt Triennial: Switzerland
2022
RWA Royal West of England Bristol
Sussex Contemporary Brighton
South East Open Studios (SEOS)
Museu Textil Virtual exhibition
Royal Cambrian Academy Open Exhibition,
8th European Quilt Triennial: Germany
2021
8th European Quilt Triennial: Germany
2020
7th European Quilt Triennial: Switzerland
Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric Germany
2019
RA Summer Exhibition - 2 works shortlisted
Fine Art Textile Award: Festival of Quilts
7th European Quilt Triennial Germany & Austria
Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric: Japan & Memphis USA
2018
7th European Quilt Triennial: Germany
Sketchbook Project Brooklyn Library USA
2017
ViewSeven: A Sense of Place Menier Gallery London
Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric Houston
European Art Quilts Grande Finale The Netherlands
2016
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
2015
London Group Open
Fine Art Quilt Masters Festival of Quilts
ViewSeven Menier Gallery London
European Art Quilts VIII
2005-2014
ViewSeven, Menier Gallery London 2013
European Art Quilt (UK & Europe 2010, 2012 & 2014 catalogued)
5th European Quilt Triennial (UK & Europe 2012 catalogued)
Ashdown Gallery (UK 2011 & 2012)
Place Sight & Sound (UK 2008)
Houston Festival of Cloth (USA 2007)
Quilt 2005 (UK catalogued)
prizes & awards
The Royal Cambrian Academy’s Selectors Prize funded the travel for Susie’s 2023 field trip to the AiR Kunstner Huset on the Lofoten Islands off Norway’s Arctic Coast
publications
Textile art books
Museu Textil ‘Intellectual Beauty’
Art Quilts International ‘Abstract & Geometric’ by Martha Sielman
Text in Textiles by Sara Impey
Paper & Metal Lamination, Finding Your Visual Language & Making your Mark: Committed to Cloth publications
Exhibition catalogues
8th European Quilt Triennale 2021
7th European Quilt Triennial 2018
European Art Quilt "Grande Finale" 2017
European Art Quilt VI, VII & VIII 2010, 2012 & 2014
5th European Quilt Triennale 2012
Quilt 2005
interviews
both interviews give an excellent in depth overview of my artwork practice