Casting the Net with Clyde Fishermans Trust Collaborative school project redesigning the interior of a mobile classroom Casting the Net Project – The Ring N...

Artist residency, facilitation and consultation . Glasgow Life . Ward 1, Glasgow An Ideal Shopping list for an electoral ward of Glasgow The residency In...

Commission NHS and Wide Open Net A mapping tree was created in collaboration with Helen Kalmijn . The tree acts as a visual prompt and a peg board for use by...

Throw Up 2018 Commission . Highland Print Studio and Newtonmore Shinty Team Myself , Roddy Buchanan, John McNaught, and Tom Smith (Lateral North) worked...

Residency. Leitrim Sculpture Centre. Manorhamilton. Ireland . Throughout her residency Nelson has been developing an ‘inventory of making’, exploring all things ...

Community facilitation residency, Cateran Trail, Perthshire Commissioned by Cateran's Common Ground . Funded by Creative Scotland Commons : land or...

Artist residency at Textilsetur Islands. Icelandic Textile Centre. Iceland July 2018 work in progress Lupinus nootkatensis, Alaskan Lupin is a...

Residency. Waterside, Walthamstow 2017/18 rese-rvoir. resi-dent. rese-van 'We are only the trustees for those who come after us' William Morris....

Community Engagment Walthamstow. London. To celebrate the opening of the Wetlands, residents of Waterside, overlooking Walthamstow Reservoir invited me to...

Commission and Community Engagement Arts in Health for Dementia Commissioner Wide Open Net A commission as a result of patient engagement in Inverclyde...

Easterhouse Shopping list Platform Arts Centre 2016 An ideal shopping list In Easterhouse was created for 60+ residents. The resulting design work was in...

Commission + temporary exhibition in collaboration with Neil Maguire Commissioned by Artlink Edinburgh for Western General Hospital Gallery . Ediinburgh...

Sit on the Isle of Shapinsay Design and community engagment in collaboration with Lateral North and Shapinsay Development Trust . Ongoing. Exploring...

Artist Residency Platform Arts 2016 Developing the theme of #madein explored in previous residency at Timespan, the project celebrates making in Easterhouse....

Site specific textile commission. 2003 Gibside Estate. Northumberand. Exploring the social history of Gibside Estate a series of medicinal flowers were...

Commission in Brodsworth Hall + residency in school with Creative Partnerships Exploring the social history of Brodsworth Hall in S. Yorkshire, a series of...

'Textile artist Deirdre Nelson chose to showcase a new and unusual embroidered piece called ‘Whiskey Work’. It was one of the exhibition’s most intriguing pieces, f...

Residency Handa Island Scotland 'what Deirdre Nelsons knitted birds suggest is that playfulness and a courting of delight. coming at these weighty questions...

Residency in London Printworks Trust + exhibition 2006 Walton Lodge Laundry on Coldharbour lane in Brixton has been trading in Brixton since 1880, and moved to...

Community participation. ‘The fish exchange’ is a project which began in Shetland in 2007 with an idea by artist Deirdre Nelson with support from Hazel Hughson an...

Commission in Shetland Museum Collaboration with Anne Eunson Tae is based on the Truck system –women bartered knitting for tea,then bartered tea for wool so t...

Artist l Object l Project, featured three major new installations developed by Catherine Bertola, Michael Cousin and Deirdre Nelson using museum pieces to...

45 cakes before 45: 45 cakes began as a mid life quest to try 45 new cake recipes before turning 45 in September 2010. It has now developed into a micro...

The two names of the island group Hirte and St Kilda, have aroused discussion and controversy for over 200 years and much studying of maps and books can be done to...

Collaboration with Inge Thomson (work in progress) Sea Change with Capefarewell Exploring Fair Isles rich ecology and landscape and its current bid for...

Costume with Hanna Tuulikki for the performance of Sign Sign in Edinburgh Arts Festival 2015 Inspired by a map of Edinburgh, Hannas graphic drawing of the Royal...

Residency and exhibiton Sirius Arts Centre. Cobh. Co Cork Following a residency in 2010 and return visit in 2011 to Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Co Cork. Ireland...

Residency + communtiy engagment 2015 Timespan Arts Centre and Museum. Helmsdale The m a p MAKING project celebrates all types of making and mending in...

Community participation. Comar and Sea Change with Capefarewell Bird Yarns is an art project responding to the changing migration patterns of seabirds caused...

Costume I designed and created costume for Away with the BIrds and worked with designer Annalisa Simonella and knitter Christie Alexander. The performance...

Residency and community engagement Craftspace A residency and community project with Craftspace The Glasshouse Studio in Jephson Gardens.Leamington...

1. Saffron Gardens 2012 How does dementia affect an understanding of ‘home’ and ‘homely’ for people across different cultures and backgrounds, including those w...

Residency and community engagement A Book town = a town full of words For the duration of the ten day Wigtown Book Festival writers, visitors and locals were...

Residency and commisioned work Tir mo Rùin is an exhibition of contemporary visual art in response to the rich ecology and heritage of the Lewis Peatlands in ...

Lead artist and exhibition Atlas Arts. Isle of Skye Lùb | Loop is a contemporary project with Atlas Arts on Skye which celebrates socks, culture, and the ...

Residency and exhibition Universal Provider is the result of a two month residency at IASKA in Western Australia. A selection of new products were made for the...

Residency and exhibition A fighe a cheo was the result of a four month residency at Taigh Chearsabagh Museum and art centre in N. Uist , Outer hebrides. ...

Residency and exhibition 2010 Residency with Stroud Textile Festival and Stroud Museum. After a period of research into Stroud red cloth within Stroud...

barántúil (adj) = authentic Barántúil is a collection of textile souvenirs created for Modern Languages exhibition curated by Katy West for the National Craft Ga...

Exchange and exhibition. Edinburgh International Festival With an interest in the traditional technique of Kantha stitch, a series of functional Kanthas have...