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Founder & CEO, Annie Sherburne

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I am Annie Sherburne.

I started with a market stall at 14, sold to shops including Browns in South Milton street before college. I had met Kaffe Fasset at 14 and I was a keen knitter. I learned that I could make things that people wanted and they would pay me for them.

St Albans foundation, St Martins fashion and Goldsmiths fine art textiles

Post uni, I became one of the first felt makers in this country.

I worked with industry to create patterned felt subsequently used for my own range of hats (examples in the V and A and the Musee des modes in Paris.)

I showed in the British Designer Collections and in New York trade shows, and have had many exhibitions throughout my career, sometimes curating other people as well, particularly ecological design works.

My fabric was used by Jean Muir for whom I designed and made felt, Hats, wooden jewellery, painted buttons and the tassel design for her perfume range.

An example of the felt collaboration is permanently showing at the national Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where the entire archive of Jean Muir’s work is internationally available for study..

In the mid 80s, I started to make tufted rugs, like paintings in wool, using the hand held heron tufting gun. There are a few hundred of these in existence.

I also worked with the potteries in stoke and created ranges that sold in Liberties and through Nicole Farhi.

I also worked at London metropolitan university making furniture, combining metal frames made by Tim Sherburne, with recycled blankets, glass finials by Adam Aaronson, and recycled bank of England banknotes encased in Plastic from Smile plastics.

In the early 90s, concerned by ecological and environmental impacts of the made world on our planet, I started to develop an environmentally friendly awareness of material origin, manufacturing use, disposal and reuse, recycling or end of life of textiles and fashion.

Because my work was being copied by china and even UK shops and manufacturers, I created products that also had environmental messages and won international design prizes and recognition from among others, HRH then Prince Charles.

The first product was Soft cobbles which pointed to the importance of biodiversity in rare breeds, and also The white horse rug, where I commissioned recycled yarn from Uk manufacturers to re establish the use of shoddy and mungo.

I was given a departmental bursary to do a PHD at Kingstons University in recognition of the effect that my way of working had raised awareness of the pivotal and essential role of the designer to specify best environmental practise in all manufacturing processes.

I became a carer for my late Husband and subsequently started to study yoga and have become an advanced teacher, with many trainings and expertise, from classical heath to ashtanga and full certification for working in military environments. .

I have had a number of shops selling my work alongside the work of my late husband and where we also encouraged other makers. I also opened a yoga studio and 18 teachers plied their specialisms there.

My sustainable practise also included initiating the painting of a gypsy caravan that went round London during the London design festival showcasing new eco designers and giving workshops in up cycling, using hand sewing machines.

This was ‘The transcendental Gypsy caravan of creativity.’

Collaborating with Paul Handley of ‘out of bounds Music’ we had a stage and encampment in Wayne Hemmingways ‘vintage festival’ at Goodwood.

I have also taught at and been a visiting lecturer in many universities in the Uk and internationally and I have work in International collections.

Annie Sherburne studio is here to teach yoga and art, and enable connections and community to have hands on and personal embodied experiences. The invitation is to come and join in. Person to Person.

Links to my works, books, jewellery and news articles

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