Sally Darlington

I have always had a passion for textiles. Since I was little I have been sewing and stitching something or another. At Secondary School in Nantwich, Cheshire, I had great art teachers, who inspired me to take my passion futher and study for a Textile Degree.
In 1989 I left the famous Glasgow School of Art with my degree and went to work as a carpet designer for BMK Ltd in Kilmarnock.
I left BMK in 1993 and taught part-time at Carlisle College of Art. for a while before joining Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). I went to teach textiles in a rural Secondary School in a place called Nyanga in the Highlands of Zimbabwe. By 1996 I was working with VSO at Takoradi Polytecnic, Ghana, teaching HND Fashion and Textiles.
I returned back to the UK at the end of 1999. I taught at Buttershaw School in Bradford, West Yorkshire, before going to work with Age Concern Calderdale as one of their arts and craft centre managers.
In 2006 I opened ntama Studio Gallery on Halifax Road in Todmorden which is now ntAMa Gallery and Framing. Everyone always asks what does ntAMa stand for, in Ghana the word for cloth is ntama and so thats how the name for the gallery came about.
I have now moved into a studio at Northlight in Hebden Bridge where I am devloping ideas for a new collection of work. So watch this space.