Lesley Turner
Victoria, BC
Lesley Turner has a full time art practice and exhibits across Canada, and the USA. She stitches textiles by hand and machine.
MessageLesley Turner received her BA (Hons) 1st class Embroidered Textiles in 2012 from Middlesex University, London UK, and her Certificate of Visual Design from Calgary University, Alberta in 2007.
She has a full-time art practice and has exhibited across Canada, the USA, Germany, Korea, and the UK. Over the 2022 summer, she had a solo exhibition at arc.hive, Victoria British Colombia.
Her artworks are included in private collections in Canada, the USA, and New Zealand.
As one of the founding members of the Articulation Textile Group, she has exhibited and attended residencies with them for 22 years. Other group exhibition highlights include the annual Vancouver Island Surface Design Association exhibition on Vancouver Island, The Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea, and the World of Threads Festival in Ontario.
She was head of Fine Arts Textiles at Victoria College of Art for three years and now teaches independently.
Lesley is currently the British Colombia and Yukon regional representative for the international organization Surface Design Association.
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