Doncaster Yorkshire

Lynn trained in textiles at Goldsmiths College London in the 1980's and has been a Senior Lecturer in Embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University since 1992.

2000's

"Mechanical Drawing" The Schiffli exhibition UK tour 2008
Lotz Textile Triennial Poland 2007
"Follow the Banner" Gallery Oldham 2007
"Art of the Stitch" Embroiderers Guild touring show 2006
"Make me C" Manchester Art Gallery 2005
"Reconstruct:Deconstruct" Bilston Gallery W. Midlands 2005
Garden of Delights Platt Fields Manchester (with Venture Arts) 2003&4
Alternative weathervanes. Southwold, Suffolk (with Venture Arts) 2003
"Planting Ideas" Festival of Quilts NEC Birmingham 2003
"Masterpieces" Palazzo Bricherasio Turin Italy 2003
"Retrospect" Forty Years of 62 Group, Alexander Palace and tour 2002
"Acknowledged Sources" Hastings Museum and Art Gallery 2001
"Telling" Narrative Textiles, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 2001
"Waves at Goldsmiths" Alexandra Palace, London and tour 2000
SOFA. Applied Art Fair, Chicago USA 2000
"North Country Quilts" Bowes Museum, Co. Durham 2000
"British Quilts in Japan" (Tokyo and touring various cities in Japan)

1990's

SOFA. Contemporary Applied Art Chicago USA 1998
"Stitch" Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk 1998
"Quilt World 98 Japan" Tokyo 1998
"A Stitch in Time" Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead 1998
Fiberarts Exhibition Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
"Home Alone" Brewery Arts, Cirencester 1997
"Living at Belsay" Belsay Hall, Northumberland 1996
Samplers, Mobillia Gallery, Cambridge, M.A. USA
"Out of the Ordinary" Solo exhibition Oldham Art Gallery 1994/5
"Home is where the Art is"Adelaide Festival, Australia 1993
The Threads of Life" Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow 1993
South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London. 1992
"Out of the Frame" Crafts Council London and touring 1992.
"Threadworks" Christchurch, New Zealand 1991
South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London 1991
"Stitched Textiles- A Celebration" Commonwealth Institute, London 1990

International Quilt Study Center University of Nebraska USA
Imperial War Museum North
Oldham Museum and Art Gallery
Harris Museum Preston
Shipley Art Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum
Bedfordshire Schools' Art Collection
Embroiderers Guild
Whitworth Art Gallery
Crafts Council

Selected for Design Camp Initiative Ahmedabad India
Associate Fellow IQSC University of Nebraska
Manchester International Festival part of The Great Indoors Event
Heritage Lottery funded banner for Gallery Oldham
HEFC Stitching Up Oxford Rd Project
UK (Trade and Investment) research visit to SOFA New York
Commission for Hastings Museum
Commission for Transport and General Workers Union
Textile Gallery, Museum of Science & Industry Manchester
Research visit to Bangladesh and India funded by N.W.Arts & MMU
Commission for Darlington Arts Centre
Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers

"The Quilted Planet" ed. Celia Eddy 2006 (Mitchell Beasley)
Folk Archive A.Kane and J.Dellor 2005 (Book works)
Embroidery Magazine Sept issue 2005
Illustration of work in "Reinventing Textiles" 1999 (Telos)
Art Textiles of the World: Great Britain, 1996 (Telos)
"88 Leaders in the Quilt World Today" 1995 (Nihon Vogue.)
"Contemporary Embroidery" by Anne Morrell 1994 (Cassell)
"Quilting Today" (U.S. pub) 1994
Crafts Mag. "Out of the Ordinary" article 1994
Practical Gardening magazine June 1993