Exhibitions
Current & Upcoming
Sketchbook to Series Exhibition - group exhibition of all the artists on my sketchbook course, 7th-10th January 2026, Creative Melbourne Gallery, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8EJ
Solo Exhibitions
Through the Frame, Chapel Gallery, Framework Knitting Museum, Ruddington, 4th Oct - 13th Nov 2025
Reviving Melbourne, Creative Melbourne Gallery, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8EJ, 8th - 11th January 2025 (Supported using public funding by Arts Council England)
Reviving Melbourne, Creative Melbourne Gallery, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8EJ, 25th - 28th September 2024 (Supported using public funding by Arts Council England)
Beyond the Windows, No. 28, Belper, 8th July - 23rd August 2024
Group Exhibitions
Open 25, Tarpey Gallery, 77 High Street, Castle Donington, DE74 2PQ, 30th August - 19th October 2025
Ignite: Group Exhibition of Spaces to Create Artists, Creative Melbourne Gallery, 24th - 27th September 2025
The Space Between, Tarpey Gallery, 77 High Street, Castle Donington, DE74 2PQ, 31st May - 20th July 2025
Introspection, Creative Melbourne Gallery, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8EJ 19th February - 19th March 2025
BLEND: Notts Book Arts Exhibition - Touring Libraries in Nottinghamshire from August 2024 - January 2025
Open 24, Tarpey Gallery, 77 High Street, Castle Donington, DE74 2PQ, 27th July - 8th September 2024
SCA Summer Exhibition 2024, Museum of Making, Derby, 14th - 16th June 2024
Arts Derbyshire: Celebration of Derbyshire Artists, Masson Mills, 41 Derby Road, Matlock, DE4 3PY, Friday 26th and Saturday 27th April 2024
Contrast, Creative Melbourne Gallery, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8EJ 14th February - 23rd March 2024
The Small Picture Show, Creative Melbourne Gallery, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8EJ 10th January - 10th February 2024
Dame Catherines Art Exhibition, Ticknall Village Hall, Derbyshire, 27th - 28th August 2023
Portal, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, 23rd August - 9th September 2023
m'Other Exhibition, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, 5th August - 30th October 2023
SCA Summer Exhibition 2023, Museum of Making, Derby, 16th - 18th June 2023
Excellence in Book Arts Exhibition, Wollaton Library, Nottingham, 3rd - 29th October 2022
2020 Vision: Magellan's Voyage of Discovery. Online exhibition, 2022
The International Postcard Show 2022, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 15th Jan-12th Feb 2022
Postcards for Perec, The Street Gallery, Locksbrook Campus of Bath Spa University,
19th January - 3rd February 2022
Postcards for Perec, Winchester School of Art, 16th Sept - 11th Nov 2021
Postcards for Perec, Bower Ashton Library of the University of the West of England, in Bristol, June 1st - July 31st 2021
Restriction, The Correspondance Collective, ClayHill Arts, Somerset. 23 March - 6th April 2021
Re:connections, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh. 27th November - 19th December 2020
Turn the Page Online Exhibition : www.turn-the-page-online.com
An online artists book exhibit from turn the page Artists Book Fair and Symposium during the Covid-19 Pandemic 2020
OPEN iso, Online exhibition by The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford. 23rd May - 14th June 2020
Institute of Miniature Art: On the Surface A Miniature Exhibition exploring the Artists Book March 2020
The International Postcard Show 2020, Surface Gallery, Nottingham. 11th Jan-1st Feb 2020
Size Matters, FAB Festival (Fringe Arts Bath) 24th May - 9th June 2019
Forms Assembled in the Light: The KPP Prize for Art, Architecture and Design, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds. Sept - Oct 2018
Offset online exhibition of Book Art by weloveyourbooks, 2018
Interact online exhibition of Book Art by weloveyourbooks, 2017
Dot/Dash online exhibition of Book Art by weloveyourbooks, 2016
Ebb and Flow online exhibition of Book Art by weloveyourbooks, 2015
Love British Books, Armenia, June 2012
Love British Books, Northampton, October- November 2012
Trent College Art Staff Exhibition, 30th November 2009
CLOSURE Exhibition, Artworks MK, Milton Keynes, 15th August - 19th September 2009
Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield 25th October - 20th December 2008
Artists Books, University of Portsmouth from 3rd-14th November 2008
Oregon Ink Spot, The Crompton Tavern, Derby, September 2008
Artists Books, Herefordshire College of Art, Summer 2008
AJAR: Summer Open Studios Week, Green Door Printmaking Studio, 2008
Artists Books, Artworks MK, Milton Keynes 2008
RE: Exhibition of Artists Books, Northampton University, 2008
>interact< an exhibition of artwork produced by art staff in the London Borough of Hounslow, 2006
Other Events
Melbourne Festival Art and Architecture Trail, Venue 1: Creative Melbourne Gallery, 20th - 21st September 2025
Belper Arts Trail, Derbyshire, 4th & 5th May 2025
Our Belper Mills AGM - Stutts centre, Belper 8th December 2024
Notts Book Arts Fair: Minor Oak, Sneinton Market, Nottingham, 2nd November 11am-5pm
Melbourne Festival Art and Architecture Trail, Venue 1: Creative Melbourne Gallery, 14th - 15th September 2024
Artisans Uncovered Fair, Museum of Making, Derby, 1st-2nd June 2024
Arts Melbourne Open Art Fair, The Athenaeum, Potter Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8EJ, 4th - 6th May 2024
Artisans Uncovered Fair, Derby Museum & Art Gallery on The Wardwick (previously Derby Library), Derby, 16-17th March 2024
Melbourne Festival Art and Architecture Trail, Venue 24, The ONE OFF, Derby Road, 16th - 17th September 2023
Belper Arts Trail, Derbyshire, 30th April & 1st May 2023
Paper Ink Print Festival 2023, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, 17th - 19th March 2023
Notts Book Arts Fair: Wollaton, Nottingham, 8th October 2022
Turn the Page 2022, The Forum, Norwich, 27th & 28th May 2022
Cromford Mills Art Competition 2022, Winner
Cromford Mills Art Competition 2022, Cromford, Derbyshire. 7th & 8th May 2022
Nottingham Print & Publishing Fair 2020 via Instagram, 26th - 29th June 2020
Sheffield Artists Book Fair, Off the Shelf, Sheffield, 5th October 2019
Publications & Interviews
COLLAZINE Issue n°2
This second issue of Collazine is dedicated to painting and drawing and I was invited to be featured in a special project article about my 100 thumbnail collages. I talk about how I use mixed media in my creative process.
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC PUBLICATION
A publication to celebrate the Postcards for Perec exhibitions. Compiled and edited by Linda Parr, foreword by Philip Terry and essays by Mireille Ribière, typography by Neil Crawford.
ISBN 978-1-906501-21-1
£20+p&p via postcards.for.perec@gmail.com
STRIKE A LIGHT PUBLICATION
My book Curation was featured in the Edinburgh Collage Collective publication Strike a Light. It showcases the works of 45 international collage artists inspired by an Open Call Project on the theme of a Matchbox.
Please visit the Edinburgh Collage Collective website for further details and to purchase.
INTERVIEW WITH HILKE KURZKE
Want to know more about my inspiration and process for making artists books?
Then read my recent interview with Hilke Kurzke - In Conversation with Jenny Stevenson on the a-n artist blog.
YOUR ART MATTERS PODCAST
Click here to listen to Jenny on the 'Your Art Matters' podcast with Michelle Lloyd from United Artspace.