Exhibitions and Events
2024
Edgelands, Prism textiles group exhibition, 19th - 29th April at The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road, E3 4QY For more info visit https://www.prismtextiles.co.uk
Saturday 27th April -Oxford Harcourt Arboretum Spring Fair - drop in straw workshops.10am - 4pm. See here for more info and workshop times
Sunday 19th May - Urban Village Festival - drop in straw workshops. Textiles and straw work also for sale See here for details
2023
Straw Skills workshops at various locations across the year including Oxford Summer School, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxfordshire Basket Makers, private events and commissions.
2022
‘Straw Skills Workshops’ - through 2022: contact pennymaltbymaker@gmail.com for themes and dates.
‘I am a work in progress’ at The Constance Howard Gallery, Goldsmiths University, 7th February - 25th March 2022
Associate Artist on “I am a work in progress” / The art of living with(out) drugs. This is a collaboration between a researcher, two artists, Isla Miller and Penny Maltby, and seven research participants. It forms part of an early-career research project led by Dr Fay Dennis and funded by the Wellcome Trust entitled ‘Mapping bodies and care practices: Making people who use drugs matter’
2021
In Search of Possibilities’ 21st - 31st October 2021, Prism Group Textiles Exhibition, The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London E3 4QY
‘Straw Skills Workshops’ - including corn dollies, Julbock (Swedish Christmas goat) - public and corporate (June - December 2021)
2020
Contributor to ‘Out of the Blue’ by Susan Aldworth, part of the ‘Illuminating the Self' Exhibition at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle. 18th Jan to 9th May 2020
Link to notes from some of the 100 embroiderers who contributed to the project.
2019
‘AA2A Exhibition’, End of residency exhibition at Bucks New Uni, High Wycombe. Part of the Artists Access to Art Schools residency Scheme.
2018
‘Our Place’, The Gallery, The Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford, 16th November to 22nd December.
'The Art of Labor' Selected artist , July 22nd - October 14th 2018. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, California 95113, USA.
'In My Hands' 27th September - 1st October 2018. Solo exhibition Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford.
Prism Textiles 'Transient' 30th May - 10th June 2018. Hoxton Arches, Arch 402. Cremer Street, London E2 8HD
'Processions' Selected Associate Artist to work with Modern Art Oxford to create a banner commissioned by The Artichoke Trust for PROCESSION on June 10th 2018
2017
'We Made This' , Pop up Exhibition, The Haven,Church Lane, Banbury May, 2017, Graduate Exhibition
2016
'Third Space' - OVADA, Oxford July 1- 17, 2016, group exhibition.
'Artopology', The Adavo Collection, Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford March 24, 2016, one day pop up group exhibition in conjunction with Ovada.
2015
'Thinking/making, Does making help creative thinking?' Curious Projects Gallery, Eastbourne. Dec 5 2015 - Feb 5, 2016. Selected exhibition.
‘Milking the Dairy Industry’ Castle Quay, Banbury May 19- 6, 2015,group exhibition.
'Reinventing Research, The messy process' The Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University, April 21-May 1 2015. Selected exhibition
'BABE' Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bristol, April 11-12, 2015, Artist Book Event
2014
‘Visualising the Invisible' Castle Quay, Pop-up Exhibition, Banbury, May 23-May 30, 2014
2012
Windsor School of Textile Arts Summer Show, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Ringmead, Bracknell, Berkshire Advanced Textile Workshop summer show
PUBLICATIONS
Bookmarks Project, XIII, XIV, XV. (2015-2017) in conjunction with UWE
Artists Book Yearbook 2016-17
biennial reference publication focusing on international activity in the field of book art .
Penny Maltby, Be the change
Article for Wovember.com. 22nd November 2016
Get Published Research Conference
Oxford Brookes University, 15th April 2016
Memberships
Heritage Crafts, Oxfordshire Basketmakers, Basketmakers Association, Guild of Strawcraftsmen,
Selected Memberships
2023 - Associate Member Design Nation
2017 - Prism Textiles.