VELVET DA VINCI SHOWS

Anna S. King

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE

Scotland

EDUCATION

DA, Edinburgh College of Art, 1972

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibition of Baskets, Silver Shell Gallery, Tokyo, 2006

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Country Living Fair, Edinburgh, UK, 2005

125 Kvadrat, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005

Pinolere Ethnographic Museum, Tenerife, Spain, 2005

Contained Spaces, International Basketry Exhibition, Glasgow, UK, touring to Japan, India, and Botswana, 2004

Merging Cultures, Merging Arts, The Cayman Islands, 2004

Exhibitions in Castle Douglas, Shetland, Stirling, Selkirk, Linlithgow, UK, 2004

Exhibitions in Llantrisant, Wales, Edinburgh, Perth, Birnam, Tobermory, Glasgow, 2003

Ambiente, with DesignED, Frankfurt, Germany, 2003

Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2002

Paper & String, Brisbane, Australia, 2002

Exhibitions in Shetland, Edinburgh, Kirkcudbright, 2002

Rovaniemi, Finland, 2001

SOFA Chicago, del Mano Gallery, 2000 and 2001

Paper Over the Cracks, Dumfries, Edinburgh and Ayr, UK, 2001

Bale of Jute, Shetland, Isle of Skye, Dundee, Edinburgh, 2001

Sail, Festival of Scottish Crafts, Royal Museum of Scotland, UK, 2000

Making Weaves, touring through the UK and in Belgium, 2000

National Museum of Scotland Collection

Scissors, Paper, Stone, Noosa, Queensland, Australia, 1998

Red Hot Fibres, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, Australia, 1998

New Works, Tapestries, Baskets and Drawings, Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington, 1998

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Committee of Applied Arts Scotland

Crafts Committee, Scottish Arts Council

Chair, Scottish Basketmakers' Circle

SOFA Chicago, Speaker in the FFAI lecture series, 2001

Judging at Royal Highland Show in Baskets and Paper, 2001

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Indian Crafts Council Sponsorship, Craft Training Centre, Govindpura, Bhopal, India, 2001

COLLECTIONS

National Museum of Scotland