Sue Timney

Sue Timney (born 1950, Benghazi, Libya)[1] is a British interior, product and textile designer. She has worked in Britain, USA, Europe and Japan and in 1980 co-founded Timney-Fowler, an award-winning interior product company.

Sue Timney
Born1950 (age 70–71)
Benghazi, Libya
NationalityBritish
Known forInterior, Product and textile Design
Spouse(s)
Websitewww.suetimney.com

Timney's work is in the collection of several museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York.

Early life

Sue Timney was born in Benghazi, Libya. Her father, Major Alexander Lockhart Carruthers, was born in British India, and her mother, Jetta Hutton, in Scotland. The family moved to Great Britain in 1965 after Timney had attended 12 schools abroad. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University,[3] gaining a First Class Honours degree. In 1977, she was awarded a distinction in her Post-Graduate degree at Edinburgh University, and in 1979 she received an M.A. from the Royal College of Art (RCA) London and won an RCA Travelling Scholarship to Japan.

Career

In 1980, Timney and Grahame Fowler co-founded Timney-Fowler, a fabric and design company best known for its black and white graphic imagery.[4] Timney took over Timney Fowler and established the Sue_TIMNEY Design Practice in 2002. She was made a Visiting Professor in 2000 and Honorary Fellow in 2007 at the Royal College of Art.[5]

2009 Served as a trustee for ten years for The Laura Ashley Foundation and collaboration with The Rug Company.[6] In 2010, she was appointed Education Director of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) and a retrospective of her work was shown at Fashion and Textile Museum, London.[7] Her design autobiography, Making Marks, was also published by Pointed Leaf Press in New York at that time.

The House of Fraser launched the Timney brand for Home and Fashion in 2011 and in the same year her work was exhibited in the "Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970–1990" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

Timney was one of seven designers commissioned by the V&A and Random House in 2012 to design the cover of a book to celebrate British design.[8] Her interior work was also featured in the V&A's exhibition "British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age" and "175 years at the RSA" held at the Royal College of Art.

Timney was elected President of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) from 2012 to 2014.

Personal life

Sue Timney has four children Alix, Louis, Max and Todd who are all involved in the business of art and design and were all educated in British Art Schools.

References
  1. Millard, Rosie (3 October 2012). "Interview: interior designer Sue Timney". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. Ogundehin, Michelle (January 2013). "In conversation with Sue Timney, a self-confessed maximalist". ELLE Decoration UK. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. Timney, Sue. Making Marks and the design of Timney-Fowler. Pointed Leaf Press, 2010, pp. 27-28.
  4. http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Sp-To/Timney-Fowler-Ltd.html#b/
  5. http://propertyawards.net/sue-timney/
  6. https://www.therugcompany.com/uk/designers/sue-timney/
  7. https://www.ftmlondon.org/ftm-exhibitions/sue-timney/
  8. https://propertyawards.net/judges/timney-sue/


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