Lives & Works in Kent, UK 

Education

MA Drawing, Camberwell - University of the Arts London, 2007
BA Textiles, UCA Farnham, 2001

Residencies

The Lossenham Project, 2023
National Trust: Sissinghurst Castle Garden, 2015

Grants

Arts Council Funding, (Developing your Creative Practice) 2018 - 2019 

Selected Exhibitions

If Heaven Falls, Lido Stores, Margate, Feb-March 2025 (juried show)

Intra, Rochester, June 2024 (solo show)

KATA, Tunbridge Wells, May - August 2023 (two person show)

Ryebank Gallery, Rye, East Sussex, Sep - October 2022 

Fifty Bees, ACE Arts, Somerton, Somerset, May 2022 (juried show)

Rye Creative Centre Open Studios, September 2021

Margins, curated by Matthew Burrows, Rye Creative Centre, August 2021

Draw 18, Society of Graphic Fine Art, Menier Gallery, London, October 2018 (juried show)

Chelsea Fringe, Tunbridge Wells, May 2018 (three person show)

'In the Garden' Artichoke Gallery, Ticehurst, June 2017

The Secret Life of Plants, at Trinity, Tunbridge Wells, April 2016 (solo show)

KOAX: Book Illustration, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, March 2016 (juried show)

Sissinghurst: An Artist's Year in the Garden - Sissinghurst Castle, September 2015 (solo show)

Cross-Pollination - Chelsea Fringe, May-June 2015 (three person show)

Garden - Rye Art Gallery, May 2015

Cross-Pollination - Crowborough, January 2015 (three person show)

Nature/Nurture - Trinity, Tunbridge Wells, Summer 2014 

On Paper – Trinity, Tunbridge Wells, Spring 2011 (two person show)


​To contact me for exhibiting opportunities, or if you are interested in more details about a piece of my work, please email me: [email protected]

You can also find me on Instagram
 
instagram.com/louisepettifer



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