Sue Timney

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Sue Timney is a British interior and textile designer.[1]

Background

Sue Timney was born in Benghazi, Libya in 1950 to an Indian Army father - Captain Alexander Lockhart Carruthers and Scottish mother Jetta Hutton.[2] The family moved to Great Britain in 1965 after Sue had attended 12 schools abroad. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University [3] after first completing her foundation course at Carlisle College of Art. In 1977 Sue was awarded a Post-Graduate degree at Edinburgh University, and in 1979 she received an M.A. from the Royal College of Art in London. In 1980 Sue Timney and Grahame Fowler co-founded Timney Fowler the fabric and design company best known for its black and white graphic imagery.[4] Sue Timney took over as chairman of Timney Fowler and established the Sue_TIMNEY Design Practice in 2001. She was made a Visiting Professor in 2000 and Honorary Fellow in 2007 at the Royal College of Art.[5] Timney is also an interior design consultant for television was elected president of the [6] (BIID) in 2012.

In 2002 alongside the Timney Fowler brand, the Sue_TIMNEY Interior Design and Graphics Consultancy was set up to work on specialist residential, exhibition and branding projects. 2009 saw the beginning of her appointment as Trustee of The Laura Ashley Foundation[7] and collaboration with The Rug Company. In 2010 she was appointed Education Director of the British Institute of Interior Design and a retrospective of Sue's work was shown at The Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Her design biography ‘Making Marks’ was also published by Pointed Leaf Press in New York at that time. The House of Fraser launched the Timney brand for Home and Fashion in 2011 and the same year her work was exhibited in the ‘Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970-1990’ exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Timney was commissioned by the V&A and Random House in 2012 to design a British Vintage Classics book to celebrate British Design.[8] Her interior work was also featured in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exhibition ‘British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age’ and ‘175 years at the RCA’ held at the Royal College of Art.

Sue was elected President of the British Institute of Interior Design in June 2012[9] and is an interior design consultant for Television. More recently in 2013, Sue designed the Kaffe Fassett retrospective at the Fashion & Textile Museum in London and has developed a range of textiles and products for the Edward James Foundation in West Dean. Her designs also feature in the ‘Club to Catwalk’ exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum which opened in July 2013.

Recent

  • 2009 Appointed Trustee of the Laura Ashley Foundation[10]
  • 2010 Appointed Education Director of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID)
  • 2010 Design biography Sue Timney Making Marks published by Pointed Leaf Press[11] in New York
  • 2010 Retrospective Exhibition at Fashion and Textile Museum, London[12] representing 30 years work from 1980–2010.
  • 2011 House Of Fraser Launch TIMNEY Brand of products in Fashion and Home
  • 2011 Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition – Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990.
  • 2011 Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition - British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age.
  • 2012 Elected President of the British Institute of Interior Design. (BIID)
  • 2013 Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibition Club to Catwalk[13]
  • 2013 Re-elected president of BIID[14]

Awards

  • 1974 Sculpture Award and Commission - Newcastle Town Centre
  • 1977 Awarded RCA Travel Scholarship - New York
  • 1979 Awarded RCA Sanderson Major Travelling Scholarship - Japan
  • 1988 Resources Council USA - Roscoe Award for Product Design Timney-Fowler
  • 1989 Resources Council USA - Roscoe award for Product Design Timney-Fowler
  • 1991 Prince Philip Designer of the Year - RCA Nomination
  • 1991 The Textile Institute - Medal for Design
  • 2007 Honorary Fellow Royal College of Art

References

  1. ↑ http://www.biid.org.uk/member/sue-timney-limited
  2. ↑ Timney, Sue. ' ' Making Marks and the design of timney- fowler ' ' . Pointed Leaf press, 2010, p.27
  3. ↑ Timney, Sue. ' ' Making Marks and the design of timney-Fowler ' ' .Pointed Leaf Press, 2010, p28.
  4. ↑ http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Sp-To/Timney-Fowler-Ltd.html#b/
  5. ↑ http://propertyawards.net/sue-timney/
  6. ↑ http://biid.presslibrary.co.uk/?pr=168
  7. ↑ http://www.decorex.com/page.cfm/Action=Visitor/VisitorID=1018
  8. ↑ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099560976/graham-greene/the-end-of-the-affair/
  9. ↑ http://biid.presslibrary.co.uk/?pr=168
  10. ↑ http://www.lauraashleyfoundation.org.uk/about-us/trustees.html
  11. ↑ Timney, Sue. ' ' Making Marks and the design of timney-Fowler ' ' .Pointed Leaf Press, 2010, p28.
  12. ↑ http://www.ftmlondon.org/exhibitions/future/detail/?ID=61
  13. ↑ http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-from-club-to-catwalk-london-fashion-in-the-80s/about-the-exhibition/
  14. ↑ http://www.biid.org.uk/about-us-directors.php

External links

  • Sue Timney's web page
  • Making Marks Sue Timney and the Design of Timney-Fowler {}
  • RCA 175 Years of the RCA
  • V&A Club to Catwalk: 80s Fashion
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