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1963-1967 Degree in Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1967-1968 Postgraduate Studies in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
1975-1977 Diploma in Photography, Harrow College, London
1982-1989 City & Guilds in Creative Toymaking, Parts 1, 2, and 3, London College of Furniture
1993-1994 City & Guilds in Patchwork and Quilting (unfinished), Morley College, London
Alicia Merrett was born and grew up in Argentina, and came to live in England in 1967. She was always interested in art, photography and textiles, inspired by her talented mother.
Alicia has been making contemporary art quilts since the early 1990s, and her work is recognised and exhibited internationally. It has been shown in the UK, Europe, USA, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia. Alicia has received a number of awards, among others, from the Wayne Art Centre in Philadelphia, and from the Society of Designer Craftsmen in London.
Alicia’s work is in private and public collections, among them the Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum in Seoul, The Quilt Museum in York, and the College of Pathologists in London.
Alicia has taught regularly in the UK and abroad, and still teaches occasionally. Her work has appeared in a number of books, catalogues and magazines, and it is included in SAQA’s ‘Art Quilts Unfolding’, and in ‘HERstory’, both published in 2018 by Schiffer Publishing. Her 2014 book/catalogue ‘Mapping the Imagination’ is now out of print.
1967-1968 Postgraduate Studies in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
1975-1977 Diploma in Photography, Harrow College, London
1982-1989 City & Guilds in Creative Toymaking, Parts 1, 2, and 3, London College of Furniture
1993-1994 City & Guilds in Patchwork and Quilting (unfinished), Morley College, London
Alicia Merrett was born and grew up in Argentina, and came to live in England in 1967. She was always interested in art, photography and textiles, inspired by her talented mother.
Alicia has been making contemporary art quilts since the early 1990s, and her work is recognised and exhibited internationally. It has been shown in the UK, Europe, USA, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia. Alicia has received a number of awards, among others, from the Wayne Art Centre in Philadelphia, and from the Society of Designer Craftsmen in London.
Alicia’s work is in private and public collections, among them the Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum in Seoul, The Quilt Museum in York, and the College of Pathologists in London.
Alicia has taught regularly in the UK and abroad, and still teaches occasionally. Her work has appeared in a number of books, catalogues and magazines, and it is included in SAQA’s ‘Art Quilts Unfolding’, and in ‘HERstory’, both published in 2018 by Schiffer Publishing. Her 2014 book/catalogue ‘Mapping the Imagination’ is now out of print.