Dana Biddle – Fibre Art Timeline
1977 – Learnt to knit1990 – Joined a freestyle embroidery group (to 1999)
1998 – Started teaching creative knitting (to present)
2001 – Joined Pretoria Creative Knitting Group (member until 2004)
2002 – Publication - Work featured in Craftwise magazine, became regular contributor (to 2008)
2003 – Exhibition – Wild Wonderful Wearable, Gilles Botbyl Pretoria
Publication - Work featured on cover of book – “Turn your Hobby into a Business”
Craftwise Magazine
2004 – Joined Fibreworks
Exhibitions – Stitches, Atlantic City, USA
Fibreworks III, Merely Mortal, JHB
National Quilt Festival, ICC, Durban
Innovative Threads, Nova Constantia, Cape Town
New Zealand
Japan
Publications - Craftwise Magazine
2005 – Exhibitions – Major Minors II, Museum Africa, JHB
Melbourne, Australia
FNB Craft Awards – NSA Durban
Stolen Affections – Salvador’s Goethe Institut, Brazil
2006 – Exhibitions - Fibreworks IV – Bamboo, JHB
African Window, Pretoria
Art Museum, Margate
Arthur Bales Window
Stolen Affections – Galaria Capibaribe, Federal University of Pernambuco,
Museu Théo Brandão, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Cultural Centre of Eugénie Villien, University of Santa
Marcelina, São Paulo, Brazil
Craftwise Needlework Carnival, JHB
Publications – Quilting Arts Fall Issue
Innovative Threads: A Decade of Fibre Art
Craftwise Magazine
2007 – Exhibitions - Stitch n Bitch London Trafalgar Lions Project
Sewing, Knitting and Craft Show, UK
Stolen Affections – Caixa Cultural of Salvador, Brazil
New Horizons Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition – Handweksmesse, Munich,
Atelier Dempf, Berlin, Germany
Jewellery Museum in Turnov, Czech Republic
International Jewellery Symposium, Turnov, Czech Republic
Fibreworks TEN – Nova Constantia, Cape Town
Publications - Stitches n Bears Magazine (to present) Consulting Editor – Textiles
GZ Art + Design International Jewellery Magazine
Craftwise Magazine
Stitches Magazine
2008 – Exhibitions - Stolen Affections, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Fibreworks V, ArtSpace Durban
Gordart Gallery, Melville, JHB
Objekt Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition, Parktown North, JHB
Objekt Contemporary Knitting Exhibition, Parktown North, JHB
Innovative Threads, Nova Constantia, Cape Town
Publications - Stitches Magazine
2009 – Exhibitions - Crafting New Pathways – craft awards 2009, Reserve Bank Gallery, Pretoria
Major Minors (Rosalie) New York, USA
Fibreworks Vista, Artisan Gallery, Durban
Publications - Stitches Magazine
2010 – Exhibitions - Fibreworks Voyages of Discovery – artb Bellville, Cape Town
Publications – 1000 Artisan Textiles
Stitches Magazine
2011 - Exhibitions - Fibreworks Kimonos Unlimited - Artisan Gallery Durban
TAGG (Textile Art Group Gauteng) - Guest artist - The Art Place, J'burg
Contemporary Textile Art Works, Structures in Cloth - Sandton Art Gallery
Contemporary Textile Art Works, Structures in Cloth - Sandton Art Gallery
Publications - A Knitting Adventure - with South African Yarn
'n Brei Advontuur - met Suid Afrikaanse Wol
Stitches Magazine
2012 - Exhibitions - Celebration - Artisan Gallery Durban
Fibreworks VII - FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg
Major Minors - IQCA, Johannesburg
Dreams - IQCA, Johannesburg
Major Minors - Artisan Gallery Durban
Publications - Stitches Magazine
2012 - Exhibitions - Celebration - Artisan Gallery Durban
Fibreworks VII - FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg
Major Minors - IQCA, Johannesburg
Dreams - IQCA, Johannesburg
Major Minors - Artisan Gallery Durban
Publications - Stitches Magazine
