Mary Butcher is a basketmaker, exhibition curator, writer and
teacher. She held a prestigious crafts residency at the V&A's
Sackler Centre in 2009. Recent exhibitions include 'This Beloved
Earth', The Barony, West Kilbride, Scotland, 'Basketry Making Human
Nature' at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich 2012,
Re-Making the Past from the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and tour, 2014
(a study in Bronze Age Creativity) and 'Dimensions' in Denmark,
2016. She received an MBE for services to basketmaking in 2012 and
one of two Crafts Skills Champions Awards in 2013.