Annie Folkard Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts: The Culture of Colour
Wednesday 28th January – Wednesday 11th February: 9.15am – 4.30pm Tuesday to Saturday.
Free Entry
We are delighted to present an exhibition by textiles artist, Annie Folkard, one of the three prize winners from The Horton Summer Exhibition 2025. The exhibition also marks Annie’s first solo exhibition and brings together her contemporary quilts created over the past eight years. Each is imbued with a self-avowed obsession with colour and pattern which her prizewinning work from The Horton Summer Exhibition 2025, ‘Colourful Syncopation’, strikingly encapsulated. As judging panel member and sculptor, Kendra Haste MRSS, said in her prizegiving presentation:
“A wonderfully vibrant piece, the shapes and colour with the particular use of quilted textiles as a surface material really gives this piece zing and punch. The work really does seem to hum and pulse with musical energy and rhythm.”
Meet the artist: Throughout the run of the exhibition, Annie will be working on new pieces in a pop-up studio space beside the exhibits, providing visitors with the opportunity to not only meet the artist but also see her at work. Annie will be working in the pop-up studio each day from 10.30am – 3pm.
The Horton Summer Exhibition 2025 judging panel member and sculptor, Kendra Haste, talks about the winning entries.
About the artist: after originally training in fashion and textiles at Manchester Polytechnic, where she gained a first class degree, Annie Folkard’s path followed a variety of roles, including working in costumes at the BBC, completing a knitting course at Leeds University (with distinction), and working for environmental charity, WaterAid, in the 1980s when it was very much at start-up stage.
She took up patchwork and quilting in 2018, after being introduced to it by her oldest friend on a visit to Australia and attending a series of workshops at the Australian Quilting Convention. Back in the UK, she joined the Quilters Guild and within four months had co-founded South West London Quilters. She remains an active member of both, in addition to Contemporary Quilt London.
She has always been obsessed by colour and pattern, which comes through in all her work.
