b. 1939
First Professor of Embroidery/Textiles in the UK – Manchester Metropolitan University 1968–1993.
Renowned maker of stitched works in both public and private collections – always abstract – the pictures result from an artist who was the first in the UK to use embroidery stitches in a manner that made ‘the medium as the message’.
Author of numerous books on Stitch. Leading authority on hand embroidery – Consultant at The Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, India, 1994-2019
2007 Author The Migration of Stitch & the practice of stitch as movement, Sarabhai Foundation, Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, India.
2012 Author Indian Embroideries Volume II Part 2, Sarabhai Foundation, Gujarat, India.
www.annemorrell.com
Hand Stitch Perspectives Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating Bloomsbury 2012 Chapter 10 From Madras to Manchester
Biography by Diana Springall Twelve British Embroiderers Gakken Tokyo 1984 plates 71–78 text 105
Diana Springall A Brave Eye by June Hill Bloomsbury 2011 Chapter 10 Collection
Profile by June Hill Embroidery magazine March-April 2018 pages 32-37
