Previous events
Previous events 2025
Church Farm, Sunningwell Christmas Fair. Beautiful and Useful Craft Fair. Modern Makers Winter Market, Yattenden. Oxford Esty Christmas Market.
New Brewery Arts drop in straw workshop as part of the Cirencester History festival. Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair.
Modern Makers Collective Summer School - Make a Decorative straw folk chandelier.
Oxford Summer School - Creative bookmaking and straw work.
Drop in family events at Harcourt Arboretum, Pitt Rivers Museum
2024 Past Events
Church Farm Christmas in the Barn. Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. Sandy Lane Farm Market. Milton Cotswold Market. Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. Modern Makers Winter Market. Made by Hand: Heritage Crafts and Skills at the Weald and Downland Museum. Harvest Knot workshop, Kelmscott Manor.Urban Village Festival. Oxford Harcourt Arboretum Spring Fair - drop in straw workshops.
‘Remembering the Past: Creating The Future’ Studio Neath.
Edgelands, Prism Textiles
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.
'The Art of Labor' Selected artist ,San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, California 95113, USA.
'In My Hands' Solo exhibition Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford.
Prism Textiles 'Transient' 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 ,one day pop up group exhibition in conjunction with Ovada.
2015
'Thinking/making, Does making help creative thinking?' Curious Projects Gallery, Eastbourne.Selected exhibition.
‘Milking the Dairy Industry’ Castle Quay, Banbury, 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.
2014
‘Visualising the Invisible' Castle Quay, Pop-up Exhibition, Banbury.
2012
Windsor School of Textile Arts 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 .
Memberships
Heritage Crafts, Oxfordshire Basketmakers, Basketmakers Association, Guild of Strawcraftsmen,
Selected Memberships
2024 - Design Nation 2017 - Prism Textiles.
