Frances Palgrave, lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

After years in practising photography, acrylic painting and drawing, she began her journey in free hand machine embroidery and fabric collage in 2015.

Free appliqué and stitch drawing opened up whole new opportunities for her to transfer images of paintings, drawings or photographs onto another medium, whilst adding new dimensions to her work.

Frances Palgrave searches continuously for new modes of expression and explores the immense and diverse creative potential of free machine embroidery.  

Frances Palgrave is member of the Society for Embroidered Work (S.E.W.) und the European Textile Network ETN, which promote textile art not only as a craft but as an art-form.

• 30. Kunstausstellung Natur - Mensch 2024, St. Andreasberg, Nationalpark Harz.

• Bergedorfer Kunstschau 2024, Hamburg - 2. Platz Publikumspreis. 

• Ostrale Biennale 023, 14. Internationale Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Künste, Dresden.

• 29. Internationale Kunstausstellung Form-Art, Glinde, bei Hamburg.

• 7. Regionalschau "Wir über uns" - 76 x Kunst aus Norddeutschland, Die Drostei, Kulturknotenpunkt Südwest und die Künstlergilde Kreis Pinneberg.

• International Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (RA), London. 

• Self-portrait exhibition, The Knitting & Stitching Shows, London/Harrogate. 

• 10th International Biennial Exhibition of Mini Textile Art "Scythia", Ivano-     Frankivs'k, Ukraine.  

• Emerging Artist 2020 juried exhibition, Fiber Art Now, Appalachian Centre for Craft, Smithville, Tennessee, USA.

photo credit: Fiber Art Now/Fiber Art Network

• International group exhibition, The Society for Embroidered Work (S.E.W.), Clerkenwell Gallery, London.

photo credit @societyforemboideredwork and my own