17 May 2025-25 January 2026
Alice-Marie Archer
Garden Futures: Designing with Nature and Stitch to Seed
V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ, Scotland
Explore the history of modern garden design and discover what the future of gardens could look like. Gain insight into the power of gardens and how our outdoor spaces can be part of a better world. Garden Futures highlights ground-breaking gardens by visionaries like Piet Oudolf and Derek Jarman, alongside innovative work from leading artists, designers, and landscape architects, such as Jamaica Kincaid, Duncan Grant and William Morris.
Stitch to Seed is an interactive museum zone commissioned to accompany the Garden Futures exhibition at V&A Dundee. It explores how craft, plant science, and community collaboration can create textiles that actively support ecological restoration.​

18 August-31 October 2025
Julie Heaton
Material Power: Rewoven
Hardwick Hall, Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S44 5QJ
Heaton’s artwork It Had To Be So is exhibited alongside a large Elizabethan embroidered wall hanging of Lucretia flanked by Chastity and Liberality in the National Trust property Hardwick Hall. Heaton says:
‘It is such an honour to have my work selected and for it be set side by side such a wonderfully powerful story of a brave female facing adversity.’ 

23 August-11 October 2025
seam collective
Warped and Wasted
ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB
This ambitious exhibition will showcase the work of 14 seam members who will work together to create an experimental, large scale, collaborative art installation, made with 100% waste, existing second-hand or biodegradable materials.  

6 September-31 October 2025
Nicola Turner
One-Island – Many Visions
Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust: Drill Hall Gallery, Easton Street, Portland DT5 1BW
One Island – Many Visions is a curated exhibition of research and site responses by 25 sculptors from the Royal Society of Sculptors in collaboration with Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust (PSQT). The exhibition is accompanied by a symposium focusing on art and nature featuring among others David Buckland, Founder/Director of Cape Farewell project on Climate Change.

18-21 September 2025
Nina Gronw-Lewis
Art Exhibition Appledore Book Festival
St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s House, 9 Church Walk, Bideford EX39 2BP
Set in the beautiful maritime village of Appledore, in North Devon, the Appledore Book Festival is one of the most vibrant cultural Festivals in the UK, which attracts world-class authors, speakers & performers and plays host to almost 100 events over 10 days.

20-21 September 2025
Angie Parker
South Bristol Arts Trail
The Southville Centre, Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1QG
Wander your way through the streets of BS3 and discover new artists, favourite local venues and creatives that might just surprise you. You’ll be able to find over 130 local artists who will be exhibiting in around 40 venues. Artists will be opening their homes and studio spaces to you, as well as exhibiting in shops, cafes and community centres.

27 September-22 November 2025
Oliver Bliss
Made in the Middle
Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Riversley Park, Coton Road, Nuneaton, CV11 5TU
Featuring 37 exceptional artists whose work highlights the wide range of innovative contemporary crafts being made in the Midlands today. Along with the variety of processes, expertise, skills and thinking on display, the exhibition also conveys powerful stories about the world we live in and reflects the influence of global migration on regional creativity. Exhibits are available to buy or commission.

3 October 2025
seam collective
Textile Talks: Textiles, sustainability and collaboration
Somerton Parish Rooms + ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB
To complement the Warped and Wasted exhibition at ACEarts, seam collective are hosting Textile Talks: Textiles, sustainability and collaboration, a one-day symposium on Friday 3 October 2025, both online and in-person in Somerton. seam invites the public and their peers in the fields of textiles, visual arts and sustainability to join the conversation as they, and invited speakers, discuss issues of textiles and sustainability, and add to the critical dialogue around sustainable arts practices locally, nationally and internationally. 

8 October-1 November 2025
Julie Heaton
Wells Art Contemporary
Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2UE
Established in 2012, Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) is a volunteer-led art exhibition that provides artists worldwide with the opportunity to showcase their work in the breath-taking setting of Wells Cathedral.

25 October-24 November 2025
Helen MacRitchie
ACEarts OPEN 25
ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB
The ACEarts Open Exhibition 2025 will feature selected works, including a felted hanging by MacRitchie, showcasing a diverse array of mediums including painting, sculpture, drawing, textiles, mixed media, and photography.

19-20 November 2025
Julie Heaton
Drawn to Thread: Learn the Art of Free Machine Embroidery with Julie Heaton
Hand & Lock Studios, 86 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8TE
In this workshop you will learn how to use your sewing machine as a creative drawing tool. With samples of her own work to look at and touch, Julie will guide you through the processes and techniques that she uses to create her embroidered drawings. It will be an inclusive two day course, whilst processes and techniques will be taught, you will be able to work at your own pace in a relaxed and creative environment. 

8-10 March 2026
Julie Heaton
Photorealistic free machine embroidery (S2D37965)
West Dean College – Sussex Campus, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0QZ
In this workshop, you will explore how to use your sewing machine as a creative drawing tool. With inspiring examples of embroidered artwork to examine, you will be introduced to techniques that transform stitching into expressive painterly designs.