About Denise Lithgow
2022 Professional Development Seminar, Textiles Sydney, Primrose Park, NSW
2017 Dionne Swift Machine Embroidery, Sydney, NSW
2016 Fiona Duthie Samplers, Context Blue Mountains, NSW
2015 Cas Holmes Stitching / Anita Larkin Nature Forms, ATASDA, Sydney NSW
2015 Marjolein Dallinga Form in Felt Context, Hazelbrook, NSW
2013 Jorie Johnson, Mastering New Techniques in Fine Felting ATASDA, NSW
2013 Meredith Woolnough, Sculptural Embroidery& Resin Casting ATASDA, NSW
2011 Felicity Clarke, Embellisher /Judy Dominic Sculptural Basket Fibre Orange forum, NSW
2010 Lynne Britten Dyeing with Drimarene-K ATASDA NSW
2009 Adrienne Sloane, Artful knitting/ Kirry Toose Art to Wear ATASDA, NSW
2009 Jean Collyer, Stitching ATASDA, NSW
2008 Cecila Player Stitching ATASDA, NSW
2007 Carolyn Sullivan Bayueau Stitch /Carol Wilkes, Embroidery, /Leah Jones Felting, NSW
2006 Jenny Hopper Felting ATASDA. Bronwyn Hunter Felting Karinga Arts Centre TAFA, NSW
2005 Ken Smith, Sheer Heavenly Machine Embroidery Grafton Artsfest, NSW
2004 Colleen Weste, Painting On Silk Grafton Artsfest, NSW
2002 Gabriella Verstraeten, Sumptuous and Exotic Fabric Panels” Grafton Artsfest, NSW
2001-2015 Sydney Day Surgery, RN, NSW
1999-2000 Medical Staffing Manager Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games, NSW
1986-1988 Fashion Design Course, East Sydney and TAFE College, NSW
1980-1999 Post Graduate Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW
1976-1980 Post Graduate training, Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA
1973-1976 General Nursing Training Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA
2023 Teaching 3 D Sculpture workshop, Spinners, Weavers & felting group Hervey Bay, Qld
2023 Teaching felt workshop Royal Art Society, North Sydney, NSW
2023 Teaching 2D landscape felt workshop, ArtEst Art School, Leichhardt, NSW
2023 Teaching 3D Felt sculpture workshop, NSW Embroiderers Guild, Summer School , West Concord, NSW
2022 Teaching Felt workshops Craft & Quilt Fair, Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush, NSW
2022 Teaching Textiles Sydney workshop, Felt Fleece Rug making, Primrose Park Arts Centre, NSW
2022 Teaching 3D Felt Workshop, Hervey Bay, Qld
2021 Presentation The Australian Design Centre, Talk & Demo, Sydney, NSW
2021 Felt workshop 3D vessels, ATASDA,La Fabrique, Leichhardt, NSW
2020-2021 Teaching Felted scarves,3D vessels The Design Gallery, Terrigal, NSW
2020 Teaching 3D Felt Vessels Bowral District Art Society, Bowral, NSW
2019 Teaching 3D VesselsThe Corner Shop Gallery, Orange, NSW
2019 Teaching Felting Portugal, Olhao, www.artinthealgarve.com
2019 Teaching 3D Felt vessels AGNSW, Sydney, NSW
2018 Teaching Arkaroola Art Adventures Northern Flinders Ranges, SA
2018 Teaching AGNSW, Ryde Art Society
2018 Judged Tumut Art Society Fibre Exhibition
2018 Teaching ArtEst Art School, Leichhardt, NSW. Canowindra Felt workshop, NSW
2018 Teaching The Design Gallery, Terrigal, AGNSW, 3D felting vessels
2017 Teaching Context Hazelbrook, NSW & AGNSW
2017 Teaching Portugal, Olhao , London International Felt makers Association, Arkaroola Art Adventures
2016 Teaching Arkaroola Art Adventures Northern Flinders Ranges, SA
2016 Speaker South Sydney ATASDA group Felting Techniques , NSW
2016 Teaching ATASDA felting workshop
2016 Teaching felt workshops AGNSW & Willoughby Art Centre
2015 Felt demonstration /exhibition London, Alexander Palace, Knitting & Stitching show, UK
2015 Teaching Felting Workshops AGNSW & Willoughby Art Centre
2015 Teaching Workshop Portugal Art in the Algarve Fantastic Felt Forms Vessels & Jewellery
2015 Macarthy Textile Group Studio visit & Presentation Felt Vessels, NSW
2015 Speaker Leura Harvest Festival, From Cottage industry to Gallery, NSW
2015 Speaker Oxford Club, Studio, Leichhardt, NSW
2014 Speaker Spinners and Weavers Guild, Burwood Creating Large Sculptural Felt Vessels
2014 Speaker ATASDA meeting, Marketing Strategies, NSW
2013 Speaker 12th Southern H
2022 Felt 3D & 2D wall works, Guest Artist Craft & Quilt Fair, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW
2021 Sculpture Wet Felting Group, online Guest Artist, 8yr retrospective Exhibition
2019 Guest Artist/The Annual Camden Art Prize, Camden, NSW
2016 Denise Lithgow Textile Artist, Art Est, Leichhardt, NSW
2016 Coast and Beyond, The Design Gallery, Terrigal, NSW
2015 From the Ocean to the Desert, Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale, SA
2014 Travelling West-From the Ocean to the Desert Musswellbrook Regional Art Centre, Muswellbrook
2023 Australia Fibre Art Award, Gallery 76, Queen St, Concord West, NSW
2023 Affordable Art Fair Brenda Colahan FA Gallery, Randwick, NSW
2023 Tone, Line & Form, group exhibition, Shac Gallery, Bowral, NSW
2023 In the Wild, group exhibition, The Shop Gallery, Glebe, NSW
2023 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Untethered Fibre Artists, Signatures, NSW2023
2022 Directors Choice, Linton & Kay Gallery, Subiaco, Perth WA
2022 Finalist Sculpture in the Gardens,Rosby Winery, Mudgee, NSW
2022 Critical Elements, Untethered Fibre Artists, Gallery Lane Cove& Creative Studios, NSW
2022 Finalist Greenway Prize,Sydney Bus Museum, Leichhardt, NSW
2022 Coo-ee, Timeless Textiles, Newcastle, NSW
2022 Finalist Ku-Ring Gai Sculpture Trail, St Ives, NSW
2022 Finalist Cross-X-pollinatioN Impermanence, Colac, Vic
2022 Affordable Art Show Sydney Brenda Colahan Fine Art stand, Sydney, NSW
2022 Royal Art Society Guest Artist “Imagination & Abstraction”, North Sydney, NSW
2022 Alternate View, Untethered Fibre Artists, Timeless Textiles, Newcastle, NSW
2022 Finalist “Remagine sculpture prize” Wallarobba Hornsby, NSW
2022 Finalist Petite Miniature Prize, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Vic
2022 Finalist Tumut Fibre Art Exhibition, Tumut, NSW
2022 NSW & ACT Fibre Textile Artists Connection Point, Canberra Museum & Gallery, ACT
2022 Finalist Wiild Wool, Australian Art Felting, Gallery 76, Concord West, NSW
2022 Finalist Bowral sculpture Prize, BDAS, Bowral, NSW
2022 Finalist Birdland11 Heritage Centre, Blackheath, NSW
2021-2022 Signatures, Untethered Fibre Artists, Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2021 Finalist Greenway Sculpture Prize, Mungo Scott Building, Summerhill, NSW
2021 Arkaroola 3 Perspectives exhibition, The Shop Gallery, Glebe, NSW
2021 Finalist HeArt of Annandale Open Prize, Annandale, NSW
2021 Finalist Sculpture on the Farm, online, Dungog, NSW
2021Finalist Sculpture in the Gardens, Mudgee, Rosby Winery, NSW
2021 Abstracts from the Lowlands & Down Under 2, De CultuurHoek, The Netherlands
2021 Finalist Australian Fibre Art Awards, Gallery 76, Embroiderer’s Guild NSW, Croydon,NSW
2021 Finalist Birdland 11 , Heritage Centre, Blackheath, NSW
2021 Sculpturesque decadence, Audrey Fine Art Gallery, Pymont, NSW
2021 Signatures, Untethered Fibre Arts, Australian Design Centre, Sydney, nSW
2021 Finalist Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Prize, Australian Design Centre, Sydney, NSW
2021 Finalist Bowral sculpture prize,Bowral, NSW
2021 Found Narrative, Untethered Fibre Artists, Gallery M, Marion SA
2021 Gang of Five, Chapter 21, Bowral District Art Society, Bowral, NSW
2020 Finalist Sculpture in the Garden, Rosby Winery, Mudgee, NSW
2020 Lockdown, ArtEst Gallery, Leichhardt, NSW
2020 Finalist Wangaratta Petite Miniature Prize, Wangaratta, Vic
2020 Finalist Australian Textile Art Awards, The Embroidery Guild, Vic
2020 Finalist BDAS Sculpture Prize, Bowral, NSW
2020 Gang of Five A New Vision BDAS ( Bowral District Art Society), Bowral, NSW
2020 Finalist Birdland 11, Heritage Centre, Blackheath, NSW
2019-2020 Responses to the Landscape Peter Griffen & Denise Lithgow, Leichhardt Library, NSW
2019 Finalist Sculpture in the Garden, Rosby Winery, Mudgee, NSW
2019 Finalist Greenway Art Prize, ArtEst Gallery, Leichhardt, NSW
2019 Abstracts from the Lowlands & Down Under, Buren, The Netherlands
2019 Gang of Five Bowral & District Art Society Gallery, Bowral, NSW
2019 Wandering West The Design Gallery, Terrigal, NSW
2018 Selected Greenway Sculpture Prize, ArtEst Gallery, Leichhardt, NSW
2018 Finalist Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Prize, Australia Design Centre, NSW
2018 Traces 3 Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT
2018 Guest Artist with the collection & selected Stitch Cloth Thread Exhibition NSW Embroidery Guild
2018 Sculpture in the Garden Rosby, Mudgee, NSW
2018 Sculpture on the Farm, Dungog, NSW
2018 Round about HeArt of Annandale, NSW
2018 Finalist Buda Contemporary Textile Prize, Castlemaine, Vic
2018 Synthesis, untethered Fibre Artists, Gallery One 88, Katoomba, NSW
2018 Sculpture Chateau de Gizeux, Loire Valley, France
2018 The Space in Between Palm House Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney NSW
2018 Finalist Petite Miniature Textile Prize, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Vic
2018 In Transit, untethered Fibre Artists, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT
2018 Earth Poetry Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale, SA
2018 Art Month Concord Hospital, Concord, NSW
2018 10 years Anniversary ArtEst Gallery, Leichhardt, NSW
2017 Finalist Hornsby Sculpture Exhibition, Wallarobba Arts & Culture Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2017 Finalist Greenways Sculpture Prize, ArtEst, Leichhardt, Seaview Gallery, Dulwich & Bankstown
2017 In Transit, untethered Fibre Artists, Wallarobba Arts & Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2017 Sculpture in the garden, Rosby Winery, Mudgee, NSW
2017 Traces 2, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra ACT
2017 Ebb & Flow, untethered group, Musswellbrook Art Centre, NSW
2017 Ebb & Flow, untethered group, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT
2017 8th International Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Textile Art “Scythia”, Kherson, Ukraine
2016 Hunters and Gatherers Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale, SA
2016 Finalist Hornsby Sculpture Prize Wallarobba Arts & Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2016 Finalist Greenways Sculpture Prize ArtEst Gallery, Leichhardt, Seaview Gallery, Dulwich, Campsie 2016 Ebb and Flow ATASDA Untethered group, Wallarobba Gallery, Hornsby, NSW
2016 Finalist Buda Contemporary Textile Prize Castlemaine Vic
2016 Finalist Art Unlimited, Dunedoo NSW
2016 Finalist Petite Miniature Textile Biennial Prize, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Vic
2016 Finalist Stanthorpe Sculpture Prize, Stanthorpe, Qld
2016 Two person exh-Landscape-My Perspective, The Design Gallery Terrigal, NSW
2016 Finalist Warringah Contemporary Textile Prize seed stitch, Warringah, NSW
2016 HeArt of Annandale-Future, Annandale, NSW
2016 Tumut Fibre Art Exhibition, Tumut NSW
2016 Finalist, Hunters Hill Sculpture Prize, Sydney, NSW
2016 Façade, ATASDA Palm House Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, NSW
2016 Landscapes-Ways of Seeing Pandora Gallery, Coolah, NSW
2015 Finalist Hornsby Sculpture prize Wallarobba Arts & Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2015 Out of Hand, ATASDA untethered Fibre Artists -Wallarobba Arts Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2015 The Two of Us Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain, NSW
2015 Finalist, Sculptures in the Garden Rosby Winery, Mudgee, NSW
2015 Finalist, Harbour Sculpture Prize, Woolwich, NSW
2015 Coastal Watch Peter Griffen & Denise Lithgow Curve Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
2015 Sheepshape Guest Artist Craft NSW Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2015 Collectors Choice Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, NSW
2014 Collectors Choice Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, NSW
2014 Finalist, A common thread, School House Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2014 The Red & The Black International, World of Threads Festival, Ontario, Canada
2014 Elevation Pandora Gallery, Coolah, NSW
2014 The Figure, Flowers &Felted Vessels 2 person exhibition, Painters Gallery, Manly, NSW
2014 Hunters Hill Art Prize Hunters Hill, & Tumut Fibre Art Prize,Tumut, NSW
2014 Royal Sydney Arts and Crafts, Homebush, NSW
2013 Collectors Choice Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, NSW
2013 Finalist Outback Open Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW
2013 Brooch Show, Contemporary Art Society Fitzroy/Richmond, Melbourne, Vic
2013 Finalist Cotton Fibre Expo, Narrabri, NSW
2013 Finalist Hunters Hill Sculpture prize, Hunters Hill, NSW
2013 Royal Sydney Arts and Crafts
2013 Tumut Fibre Art Exhibition, Tumut, NSW
2012 Variegated Threads, A common thread International, World of Threads Festival, Ontario, Canada. 2012 Beyond the Surface, Gallery 54, Paddington, Brisbane, Qld
2012 Fragment ATASDA Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, NSW
2012 Finalist Broken Hill Regional Gallery Art Prize, Broken Hill, NSW
2012 Finalist Petite miniature Textiles Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Vic
2012 Finalist Hunters Hill Art Prize, Hunters Hill NSW
2012 Royal Sydney Arts and Craft, Homebush, NSW
2012 A Retrospective Two person, Grenfell Regional Gallery, Grenfell, NSW
2011 The Salon Show, Painters Gallery, Avalon, NSW
2011 Jane Goodall save our forests, Carriage works, Sydney, NSW
2011 Royal Sydney Arts and Craft, Homebush, Sydney, NSW
2011 Afghanistan-Australian Arts Project, Kubal, Afghanistan
2010 Strike A Pose Collaborative work with Peter Griffen, Double Bay, NSW 2010 Royal Sydney Arts and Craft, Homebush, Sydney NSW
2010 Voyages of the Imagination, ATASDA, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW
2010 Finalist Totems Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Qld
2010-2009 Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW
2009 The Art of Recycling, Brisbane Textile Art Festival, Brisbane, Qld
2009 Royal Sydney Arts and Craft, Homebush Sydney, NSW
2007 Shelf Life Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW
2007 Yarrawonga Arts Council, Yarrawong, Vic
2007 Finalist Textile Biennial Fibres and Fabrics, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Qld
2006 Finalist Up over Down Under ATASDA, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
2005 Small Wonders Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW
2019-2021 Found Narrative Untethered Fibre Artists, Wallarobba Arts Centre, Hornsby, NSW Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW Gallery M, Marion, SA
2019 Unseen Untethered Fibre Artists, Gallery M Adelaide, SA, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW Manning River Gallery, NSW2019 Collective Stitches NSW Embroidery Guild, Croydon, NSW
2018 Collective Stitches Sala Polifunzionale, Tornareccio, Abruzzo, Italy, Knitting & Stitching show, Olympia, London, Hawar, Oldeberkoop, Netherlands, Knitting and Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London, Knitting & Stitching Show, Dublin, Ireland, Knitting and Stitching Show, Harrogate, Yorkshire
2010 Finalist The Art of Recycling, Brisbane Textile Art Award, Melbourne art & craft fair,
2009 Exotica: Bugs, Botanica, ATASDA Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide & Canberra.
2019 Selected Artist in Residence, Camden Art Prize 44th Annual Exhibition, Camden, NSW
2012 Artist-in-residency Alerayc, France,
2011 “Designing Minds” The Studio Gallery, Gosford Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
2022 3rd prize Ku-Ring Gai Sculpture Trail, St Ives, NSW
2022 Highly Commended, Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowral, NSW
2021 Winner , Australian Fibre Art Award Excellent’s in Felting, Gallery 76, Croydon, NSW
2021 Highly Commended, In & Out of Drought,Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowral, NSW
2018 Highly Commended, Camden Sculpture Prize NSW
2017 Major Prize sponsored Dobbs Gallery, Textures of One, Blayney, NSW
2016 Highly Commended, Buda Contemporary Textile Castlemaine, Vic
2016 HeArt of Annandale, Future, Annandale Sculpture Prize
2016 Highly Commended, Art Unlimited, Dunedoo, NSW
2015 Highly commended Hornsby Sculpture Prize, Wallarobba Arts & Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2015 Textures of One’ Fibre Art Prize, Blayney, NSW
2014 ATASDA NSW Grant
2014 Hornsby Sculptural Prize, Wallarobba Arts & Cultual Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2014 Royal Sydney Arts and Crafts: 1st Hand Bag, 2nd Wall Hanging & Sculptural Vessel,
2013 Royal Sydney Arts and Crafts: 2nd wall hanging, 3rd sculpture vessel,
2013 Tumut Art Society Fire Art, Fibre Section, 2nd prize
2012 Royal Sydney Arts and Crafts: 1st wall hanging, 2nd handbag 3rd embellished jacket
2011 Royal Sydney Arts: 1st wall hanging, 3rd hand bag, highly commended sculpture vessel
2010 Royal Sydney Arts: 2nd wall hanging, 3rd felted jacket, highly commended mixed media
2009 Sydney Royal Arts 1st wearable art, 2nd wall hanging, 3rd handbag.
2009 Brisbane Textile Art Festival, Brisbane, Art to wear, 1st prize.
Royal Arts Society member
International Felt Makers Association
Australian Textile Arts and Surfaces Design Association, ATASDA
The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, TAFTA
NSW Embroidery Guild
Untethered Fibre Artists Group
2023 NSW Embroiderers’ Guild , The Record, Members Profile, March issue
2022 Australian Felt Magazine, June Issue, Wild Wool Exhibition, Gallery 76, NSW
2021 Australian Felt magazine, Dec issue, Profile, Article Process Felting ” In & Out of Drought”.
2021 Textile Fibre Forum magazine, Dec issue, Readers Gallery Denise Lithgow
2021 Australian Fibre Art Awards book, Art Wear publications, editor Lynda Worthington
2021 Living in a Felt WorldBook, self Published, Design by Kym Griffen
2020 Australian Artist Magazine, issue April, Three Perspectives pages 50-55
2020 Australian Textile Art Awards book, Artwear Publications, editor Lynda Worthington
2019 Hand Eye online magazine, USA, Wallworks & Sculptures, Denise Lithgow Issue April
2018 Studio La Primitive Arts Zine online, Australia, Denise Lithgow, issue 26 July pages 38-51
2018 Textile Fibre Forum publication 131
2018 Dimensional Cloth. Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists, USA, Andra F Stanton
2016 World Wide Colours of Felt, Textile- Link, Ellen Bakker, Netherlands
2015 Spotlight on Australia & New Zealand, Felt Matters, International feltmakers association, Issue 120
2015 3D Sculptural Felt Vessels Textile Fibre Forum Issue No 119,
2014 Travelling West – From the Ocean to the Desert. Fibreline Issue 158 page 25
2014 Denise Lithgow Featured Artist World of Wool, UK,
2014 Tafta’s E-Newsletter, Denise Lithgow selected as the Australian artist for the world of threads festival, Canada page 17
2012 Artist of the Month http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/artist-of-the-month.html
2012 The Art of Marketing Fibreline Issue 147
2011 If the hat fits, make it a beanie, Inner West Courier, page17
2011 Converting a wrap to a vest.Felt vol 11 Issue 5 page18-21
2011 Art U Wear Textile fibre forum Issue 1, No 101,
2010 Featured artist, Fibreline Issue 142.
2023 Yellow Cocoon sculpture, Private Collection, Sydney, NSW
2021 In & Out of Drought sculpture, Private Collection, Louis Burke, Sydney, NSW
2019 “My Mud Map” Private Collection, Sydney, NSW
2015 Commission Ambrosia Medical, New South Head Rd, Sydney 3-Mixed Media Works
2015 Hugh Kraefft Dancing Sea Horses 150x50cm, NSW
2014 Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre collection Sculptural Felt Vessels/Textile Work
2014 Max Watters Collection, Mixed Media work
2010 Commission-“Kimberley Canyon” 1.7×1.1mts, Felt Vessel, Katina Sweeting, Sydney NSW, Australia
2009 “Paradise Landscape” Private Collection, Lois Going, New Zealand
2008 “Coastal Landscape 2”, 26x20cm mixed media private collection, California USA.
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