Biography

Hillu Liebelt was born in Germany and moved to London in 1980. After an initial training as a designer for shop interiors, window display and graphics, she studied  tapestry weaving when she came to England.

Her work has been exhibited in Britain, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Spain and Japan and has been featured in magazines and newspapers, as well as in a book published in Japan (2005): ‘Artists’ Studios in London’.

She has been teaching tapestry classes since 1994, gave lectures and has held workshops in Britain, the Netherlands and Japan. Membership includes the London Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers, the British Tapestry Group and the European Textile Network (ETN).

A generous grant given by the Theo Moorman Trust in 2006 enabled her to visit Japan and teach two workshops at the Kawashima Textile School and the Seian University. Following that she received an invitation from HISHIO, the Centre for Cultural Exchange in Katsuyama / Okayama Prefecture, Japan for a solo exhibition and an artist’s residency in 2008.

With the help of a grant from Arts Council England, the exhibition entitled ‘DELICATE MATTERS’ was shown in the United Kingdom in 2009.

The next travelling exhibition STILL MOMENTS will start off in two adjacent galleries in Kyoto in October 2012 and will be shown in the United Kingdom in 2013.