Biography
Dinah Prentice B 1935
Co-Founder Ikon Gallery Birmingham
Born 1935 and educated at Haberdashers Aske's London and The Wyggeston Leicester; she studied painting at Birmingham and later at The Royal Academy Schools 1963
Co-founded Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Exhibition Organiser M.A.C., Birmingham 1968
1979-89 Extra-mural tutor Leicester University. Visiting artist Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford and Nottingham Polytechnic
1993-4 Read M.A. in Psychoanalytic studies at Brunel University
Collections
From 1990
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Other works in public and private collections
Persephone Rising currently in no.4 Brindley Place, Birmingham
Bibliography
1993 Leading Quilters of the World (Nihon Vogue Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan)
1995 'Dinah Prentice Sewn Constructions' in New Feminist Art Criticism ed. Katy Deepwell M. U.P.
1998 nEssay on the work of Dinah Prentice in 'Take 4° catalogue, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Exhibitions
1990 Bienalle Des Femmes, Grand Palais, Paris
1990 American International Ouilt Association
1992 International Quilt Festival, Houston, U.S.A.
1993 Solo exhibition Art Locate, Derwent Business Centre, Derby
1994&5 Phipps & Co. Art Fair, Royal College of Art
1996 William Morris Revisited. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
8 Objects of our Time, Crafts Council, London American Craft Museum. New York.
Revelation, Textile Artists Addressing Issues, Maidstone Library Gallery
The Barbican Centre, London (touring)
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 1998
1998 World Quilt '98, Tokyo International Forum Take 4, New Perspectives on the British Art Quilt, Whitworth, Manchester
2002 Solo exhibition, Worcester Museum and Art