Elemental Images
by Rosa Davis
Exhibitions
1977
Julia
Hills Dolls, Sunderland Arts Centre
1977-84Guild
of Lakeland Crafts Exhibitions, Windermere
1978Craftsmanlike,
Northern Arts touring Exhibition
1978Society
of Designer Craftsmen, Design Centre, London
1979Christmas
Toys, Charles de Temple, London
1979New
Faces, British Crafts Centre, London
1980Dolls,
Northern Museum Circuit
1980Year
of the Child, British Crafts Centre, London
1980Contemporary
British Crafts, Sotheby's, London
1981Presences
of Nature, Carlisle Art Gallery touring exhibition
1981Members
Show, British Crafts Centre, London
1981Character
Dolls, Banbury, Oxfordshire
1981Flowers,
Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire
1982Astrological
Figures, Ludlow Crafts Centre, Shropshire
1984-9Annual
Exhibitions, Rooksmoor Gallery Bath, Avon
1985Exhibition
of Childhood, Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria
1988-9Clowns,
Sunderland Arts Centre touring exhibition
2000Ancient
Roots Timeless Journeys, Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth
2002Still
Here, Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth
2007Darbyshire
Award, Museum in the Park, Stroud
Articles
Marigold Coleman, Dolls of Character, Crafts March/April 1978
Avril Deane, Dolls with a world of difference, Newcastle Journal
November
1979
Craftsmanlike, Northern Arts Catalogue 1978
Andy Christian, Theatrically Brooding, Christian Science Monitor
October
1979
Angela Levin, Personality Dolls, Observer 27th April 1980
Catalogue for Presences Of Nature, Carlisle Art Gallery 1981
John Millard, Living Dolls, Craft Chronicle 1980
Julia Hills, Viewpoint, Craft Chronicle 1980
Andy Christian, The Doll Makers, Craft Quarterly 1981
D Lane Herron, Julia Hills - Dolls and Workshops, National Doll World
1982
Porcelain Dolls, House And Garden March 1983
Susanna Oroyan Contemporary Doll Artists, Hobby House Press 1986
Wemoon Diary 1994, 2000, 2004
Moonwise Diary 2003, 2004
D Lane Herron, Catching up with Rosa Davis and her Dolls, Doll Castle
News, March/April
2004
Public Collections
1978Group
of Folk Dancers, Billingham Town Council, Cleveland
1978Old
Couple, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
1979Grimaldi,
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
1980Billy
Purvis, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
1981Rose,
Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire
1981Winter
and Spring, Carlisle City Museum and Art Gallery
1983Rapunzal
and the Witch, Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh