Barbara Gardner-Rowell
- Work
- Biography
My creative practice explores narratives of identity, place and belonging. My current focus is contemporary tapestry weaving. The tools of weaving are simple and seem to intuitively carry the story of their ancient beginnings and the central role they have always played in the human experience.
Education:
MA Art and Social Practice, 2022
University of Highlands and Islands
BA Combined Studies, Art and Design 2014
Edinburgh College of Art
Group Exhibitions:
BTG20 - Picking Up the Thread 2025 - 26
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
The Market Hall, Devonport
Morley Gallery, London
Heallreaf 5 2024 - 25
Morley Gallery, London
Farfield Mill, Cumbria
Heallreaf 3
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Espacio Gallery, London
The Artists Pool
Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
March 2019 and March 2018
Cordis Tapestry Showcase
Scottish National Gallery Café
Edinburgh
October 2017 – February 2018
Borders - British Tapestry Group Show
Northlight Gallery
Stromness, Orkney
Aug – Sept 2017
Lines of Enquiry
Mesh Collective
MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr
July – Aug 2017
Cordis Tapestry Showcase
Scottish National Gallery café
Edinburgh
November 2016 – January 2017
Reworked
Mesh Collective
Summerhall
Edinburgh
November 2016
Bursaries and Funding Awards
Recipient of Creative Scotland Open Project Funding to develop Bursary ideas with The Collab-Connected 2019
Recipient of Older Emerging Artist Bursary for the Development of the Early Stages of a New Idea, Luminate and the Saltire Society 2018
Platform, Glasgow, Luminate Festival 2019
Artist’s Talk about my Luminate bursary work and the experience of being an older emerging artist, in conversation with Nicholas Bone, Artistic Director of Magnetic North
VACMA recipient 2016
MA Art and Social Practice, 2022
University of Highlands and Islands
BA Combined Studies, Art and Design 2014
Edinburgh College of Art
Group Exhibitions:
BTG20 - Picking Up the Thread 2025 - 26
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
The Market Hall, Devonport
Morley Gallery, London
Heallreaf 5 2024 - 25
Morley Gallery, London
Farfield Mill, Cumbria
Heallreaf 3
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Espacio Gallery, London
The Artists Pool
Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
March 2019 and March 2018
Cordis Tapestry Showcase
Scottish National Gallery Café
Edinburgh
October 2017 – February 2018
Borders - British Tapestry Group Show
Northlight Gallery
Stromness, Orkney
Aug – Sept 2017
Lines of Enquiry
Mesh Collective
MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr
July – Aug 2017
Cordis Tapestry Showcase
Scottish National Gallery café
Edinburgh
November 2016 – January 2017
Reworked
Mesh Collective
Summerhall
Edinburgh
November 2016
Bursaries and Funding Awards
Recipient of Creative Scotland Open Project Funding to develop Bursary ideas with The Collab-Connected 2019
Recipient of Older Emerging Artist Bursary for the Development of the Early Stages of a New Idea, Luminate and the Saltire Society 2018
Platform, Glasgow, Luminate Festival 2019
Artist’s Talk about my Luminate bursary work and the experience of being an older emerging artist, in conversation with Nicholas Bone, Artistic Director of Magnetic North
VACMA recipient 2016
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- The Writing on the Wall
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- Occupy
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