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Anne Frances Sutton FSA FRHist (3 November 1942 – 18 June 2022) was a British historian. Biography. Sutton was a trustee of the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust since its foundation in 1985. Her research focussed on medieval English history, especially Richard III and medieval women.
Bunny Hill Designs. Anne Sutton has always loved crafts of any kind, but her love of sewing is what brought her to the quilting world. She fell in love with quilting, when she took a class at her local quilt shop! Once quilting became her passion, her love of appliqué soon became her obsession!
StyleCollection NameSwatch PageJpg ImagesClassicClassicClassicClassicAnne Sutton (1589–1615) was an English lady-in-waiting who was a companion of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. She was the daughter of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley and Theodosia Harington . Sutton was known as "Mrs Anne Dudley" or "Mistress Dudley" although "Sutton" was the family surname.
- Early Life and Education
- Teaching Career
- Studio Career
- Travel, Awards and International Work
- Ann Sutton Foundation
- My Bones Are Woven
- Publications
- Media
- References
- External Links
Ann Sutton was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, on 16 May 1935. She attended local schools, including the Orme Girls' School in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, winning several art prizes. She moved to Pontypool, Monmouthshire in 1947 and from 1951 to 1956 studied at the Cardiff College of Art, where she gained a National Diploma in Design.
Graduating from art college, Sutton became a full-time lecturer in weave at the West Sussex College of Art, Worthing from 1956 until 1963, while also returning as Visitor, Cardiff College of Art (1960) and working as a student and then tutor at the Glamorgan Summer School at Barry, South Wales (1961–1968). As her own studio work progressed, she com...
Banbury
In 1964, Sutton married furniture designer and maker John Makepeace, and together they converted Farnborough Barn, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, into living and workshop space where they initially combined their careers. Makepeace employed craftsmen and trained apprentices on site; Sutton pioneered the use of local homeworkers, working to her original designs. In 1970 she won joint first prize in the Sculpture ’70 Welsh Arts Council competition, while in the same year the Victoria and Albert Mus...
Parnham House
Together with her then-husband John Makepeace, Sutton bought the 16th-century, Grade I listed Parnham House near Beaminster, Dorset, which was to become their new home, workshops and studios, combined with a new residential training college for craftsmen. In 1977 it opened as the Parnham Trust School for Craftsmen in Wood; early students included furniture designer and retailer David Linley, now the Second Earl of Snowdon. Sutton combined developing Parnham (the 80-roomed house was also open...
West Sussex
In 1980, the newly-single Sutton bought and began to renovate a semi-derelict, former Cooperative shop in Tarrant Street, Arundel. This became both her new living and studio space. There she wrote and presented the 1980 five-part BBC television series The Craft of the Weaver, together with the accompanying book. During the 1980s, Sutton became an early adopter of new technology, and especially the use of computer-aided looms, which she pioneered. In 1985 she had a large solo exhibition at the...
Sutton has travelled extensively as part of her work, often in connection with awards, teaching and consultancies. Highlights include: 1. a Royal Society of Arts (R.S.A) scholarship for travel and research in Nigeria and Morocco (1971); 2. chairing the Fibre Programme: World Crafts Council conference, Mexico (1975); 3. chairing the Miniature Textil...
In 1999, she set up the Ann Sutton Foundation, which was housed in premises which Sutton bought and renovated, adjacent to her Arundel studio and home. She had long held that talented young woven textile artists needed a period of guided transition between graduate study and the working world. Consequently, the Foundation set out to provide not onl...
The documentary film about Sutton: “My Bones Are Woven”, directed by Jane Mote and Joshua Kershaw (UK, 2022, 74 minutes), was screened as part of “Ann Sutton in Words and Film”, staged by the British Library, London, on 18 November, 2022. Speakers included Ann Coxon, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern.
Sutton, Ann and Pat Holtom. Tablet Weaving. London: Batsford, 1975.Sutton, Ann, Peter Collingwood, and Geraldine St. Aubyn Hubbard. The Craft of the Weaver. London: BBC Publications, 1982.Sutton, Ann. The Structure of Weaving. London: Hutchinson, 1982.Sutton, Ann and Richard Carr. Tartans. London: Bellew Publishing,1984.The Craft of the Weaver, five parts, writer and presenter, BBC Television series, 1980.“My Bones Are Woven”, documentary film about Ann Sutton, directed by Jane Mote and Joshua Kershaw (UK, 2022, 74 minutes).Sources
1. Harrod, Tanya; (1999). The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300077807 2. Sheehan, Diane; Sutton, Ann; Tebby, Susan (2003). Ann Sutton. London: Crafts Council. p. 39. ISBN 9780853318859. 3. Waller, Irene (1979). Fine-art weaving : a study of the work of artist weavers in Britain. London: Batsford. p. 115. ISBN 9780713404128. OCLC 5940073.
Anne F. Sutton at the 2019 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Photograph: Catherine Rendón. The death of Anne F. Sutton on 18th June 2022 has left an enormous gap in medieval scholarship. She was an outstanding historian and a great friend to many, and especially to the Yorkist History Trust.
This is Anne Sutton's magnum opus. The book wholly succeeds in its task of clarifying in detail the long and complex history of the medi eval mercers and their company and clearly demonstrates Sutton's ex tensive knowledge of the trade as previously demonstrated in her other work on this topic. As such it sits well within the tradition of Sylvia
16 de ago. de 2022 · Anne Sutton, archivist and historian who fought to restore the reputation of Richard III – obituary. Her energetic advocacy of England’s last Plantagenet king helped to inspire the discovery of...
