1971 - 74
Art & Design Teacher, Highdown School, Berkshire.

1975 - 1980
Set up studio in Fosseway House Workshops, Glouc.
Embroidered textiles for Bill Gibb, London.
Selected for Crafts Council Index www.photostore.org.uk
Crafts Council UK Tour.
International & UK Exhibitions: London, Paris, USA.
V&A Museum- Crafts Council Shop.
Featured in BBC Series 'Embroidery'. (Ref.: BFI/Film & TV Database www.ftrdb.bfi.org.uk)

1980
Textiles studio established in Oxfordshire.

1980 - 1990
'British Crafts' Florida, USA; 'Fashion as Art' Boston, USA.
'Art Textiles', Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
'Quilting, Patchwork & Appliqué' Crafts Council Touring UK.
'Stitched Textiles for Interiors', R.I.B.A. London.
'Hatches, Matches, Dispatches', National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
'The Embroiderers' Garden' touring exhibition UK.
Chelsea Craft Fairs, Crafts Council. ('83 & '88).

1990 - 2000
Group exhibition of Contemporary Embroidery, Osaka & Tokyo, Japan.
'An Eye for Detail' Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire.
Solo show of Embroidered Textiles in Tokyo ('93).
Festival of Embroidery at Yarlington House, Somerset.
'The Embroiderers Garden' group show in Tokyo.
'Embroidery in Kelmscott', Community Project, Oxon.
'Crafts Showcase' Abingdon Museum, Oxon.

2002
'The Spirit of the Place', organized by Miranda Gunn & National Trust.

2003
Sue Rangeley & Verina Warren Newington House Gallery, Oxfordshire.

2005
'Inspired to Stitch-21 Textile Artists', curated by Diana Springall. UK.

2007
Oxfordshire Art Weeks.

2009
'An Embroiderer's Eye' - The Diana Springall Collection. Macclesfield Silk Museum, UK.
'A Wearable Art', The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock UK.
'In Studio' weekend residency, linked event for 'A Wearable Art'.

2010
Botanical Paintings & Textile Art', Oxfordshire Art Weeks.

2011 & 2012
Selected demonstrator and exhibitor Textiles, Art in Action, Oxfordshire

2013
'Fashioned with Stitch' - Solo exhibition at The Silk Museum, Macclesfield, Cheshire

The Victoria & Albert Museum:
Embroidered Silk Ensemble created for the designer Bill Gibb in 1977 (In the permanent collection of Fashion & Textiles) www.vam.ac.uk
(Collection catalogue: No. 58. Jacket No 5627, this piece was quilted and embroidered by Sue)
Note: A silver version of this jacket was created for Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee Year, it featured in the fashion show at the Royal Albert Hall - 'Ten Years of Bill Gibb', November 18th 1977.

The National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia:
An embroidered jacket, dress, shoes, headpieces, commissioned for an exhibition in 1987.

The Embroiderers' Guild, Hampton Court, UK:
Two embroidered bags. www.embroidery.embroiderersguild.com

The Embroiderers' Guilds of Victoria & Sydney, Australia:
Waistcoats & bags.

The Cheltenham Museum & Art Gallery, UK:
One painted silk, embellished bag ('82).

The Shipley Museum, Gateshead, UK:
Painted, quilted silk purse (1982) www.twmuseums.org.uk

Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, UK:
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
2014 An embroidered machine lace panel, styled as a stomacher panel, entitled 'Frost', beaded with applique embellishments. The original artist's sketch of this work accompanies the lace embroidery.

These two pieces were created for Sue Rangeley's first publication, 'Embroidered Originals' , published 2010, and are illustrated in the book. Exhibited at Gawthorpe Hall in 2013.

Held in the permanent collection of the Textile Collection. www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk

Private collections:
Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

1978 - 80
Visiting Tutor at North Oxfordshire College. Foundation Course. Crafts Council Textile Tour UK.

1980 - 1998
Visiting Lecturer at University of Central England, Birmingham. Department of Fashion & Textiles, BA Embroidery.

1980 - 1985
Study Days at V& A Museum. Visiting lecturing for Trent Polytechnic, Manchester Polytechnic, Goldsmiths College, London.

1989
Lecture/workshop tour to Australia & New Zealand.

1990
Lecture/workshop tour in Canada.

1990
Artist in Residence, Kelmscott, William Morris Society.

1992
Worcester College Wall-Hanging. Schools textile project, commission for Lord & Lady Briggs, Worcester College,Oxford.
Lecture/workshop tour to Denmark.

1990-2008
Schools workshops in Oxfordshire.

1996
Artist in Residence, Botley C.P. School Oxford. Commission for three wall hangings.

1998
Third international workshop tour to Seattle, USA & Vancouver.

1999
Artist in Residence, St. Mary's School, Chippenham, Wilts. Commission for three wall-hangings, children's textile project.

2000
Fourth International Textile workshop tour USA & Vancouver.

2003 & 2007
International: Textile Workshops in Vancouver, Canada.

1988-2008
Textile Masterclasses & Study weekends, Oxfordshire.

2010-2012
Textile Masterclasses & Lecture programme linked with the publication of 'Embroidered Originals'.

2013
'Inspired to Stitch' Study Day at The Silk Museum, Macclesfield. Event linked to the exhibition 'Fashioned with Stitch' June 1 - July 20

1999 - 2002
Member of Steering Group at Abingdon Museum, for the Oxfordshire Collection Contemporary Crafts.

1996-2009
Free-lance Curatorial work for Arts Development, West Oxfordshire District Council; developed and curated projects: Contemporary Crafts in the Cotswolds -1997'; 'Silverworks' and 'Soft Touch' '98; 'Crafts in Churches' 1999; 'Crafts in Gardens'. 2003 & 2005; 'Potters of Port Street' exhibitions 2006 -7. 2009 Curated 'A Wearable Art', in partnership with The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock.

1982
Southern Arts Bursary to develop personal embroidered textiles.

1990
William Morris Society Residency, funded by The Ernest Cook Trust and Southern Arts. www.morrissociety.org (referenced in archives)

1993
Southern Arts Funding of Multi Media Installation in Tokyo show. British Council Funding for travel to Tokyo exhibition. Sponsorship of Tokyo exhibition: Tokyu Department Store, Japan.

2003
Oxfordshire Education Business Partnership Award, for 'distinctive contribution to education in North/West Oxford shire'.

2009
Awarded funding for 'A Wearable Art' by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and Oxfordshire County Council.

Sue Rangeley's textiles have featured in numerous UK publications including Crafts, Embroidery, The World of Interiors, Vogue, The Sunday Times, and international textile magazines. Images and critiques of Sue Rangeley's textiles appear in over 20 books, with features in videos, and television.

Sue's embroideries appear in these recent books:

2005
'Inspired to Stitch- 21 Textile Artists' by Diana Springall, A&C Black.

2009
'An Embroiderer's Eye - The Diana Springall Collection' Macclesfield Museum.

2009
'Seventies Style' by Kirsty Hislop & Dominic Lutyens, pub. by Thames & Hudson.

2010
'Embroidered Originals' by Sue Rangeley, published by D4Daisy Books Ltd.