1950 Janet Susan Carruthers is born at the Military Hospital Benghazi, Libya on the 9th of July to Captain Alexander Lochart Carruthers and Jetta Stoba Hutton. Joined by sisters Diane in 1952 and Fiona in 1954. The family lives between North Africa and Europe for the next 15 years.

1961 Living in Germany, Sue wins her first art prize for her Birdman sculpture.

1965 The Carruthers family arrive in England and Sue is enrolled in grammar school, her twelfth.

1966 Sue leaves school and applies to Carlisle College of Art and Design where she meets John Timney, a graphic design student.

1967 After gaining more academic qualifications Sue moves to Newcastle with Timney.

1968 John and Sue marry in Carlisle. She works fulltime for four years in Newcastle-upon-Tyne–first in an advertising agency, then as an assistant to a fashion photographer.

1972 Sue returns to art school. She begins a BA honors course in fine art at Newcastle University.

1974 Alix, Sue’s first child is born. Sue takes a year-long sabbatical and works on a sculpture for the Washington New Town Sculpture Prize after winning the commission.

1975 Sue’s work is exhibited at the Paris Print Biennale, France.

1976 After completing her BA as the only woman in the course, she receives a first class honors degree. Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh becomes Sue and Alix’s home when Sue is accepted to do a post graduate degree in tapestry. She works at the Edinburgh Film Festival with two of her icons, Wim Wenders and David Lynch.

1977-1978 Shows at: Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle; a one woman show at the Scottish Arts Council Traveling Exhibition; Edinburgh University; Talbot Rice Centre; Glasgow University; S.T.A.G. Exhibition Atmosphere Gallery, London; Paperwork Exhibition Gardner Arts Centre, Sussex University; Sculpture Exhibition Fruit Market Gallery; Edinburgh Arts Council; Scottish Arts Council.

1977 Sue is offered a place in the School of Tapestry at the Royal College of Art in London. She begins working in the Film, Printmaking and Photography Schools to produce a series of print images.

1978 The Royal College of Art awards Sue a traveling scholarship to New York at the end of her first year. She also takes part in several exhibitions; Lyon, France, Group Exhibition RCA Royal College of Art S.T.A.G. mixed media exhibition British Crafts Centre, London, Biennale Miniature Tapestries Villefort France, Group Exhibition RCA.

1979 Sue graduates from the Royal College of Art, winning the Sanderson Major Traveling Scholarship to work in Japan. Exhibitions follow at the Coracle Gallery, and the Warehouse Gallery in London; and at the Fruit Market Gallery in Edinburgh.

1979–1980 Professor Roger Nicholson awards Sue a teaching fellowship at the RCA. Sue takes part in the Feminine Dialogue Exhibition at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. She and Grahame Fowler travel to Japan and set up Timney-Fowler. They begin working with Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake. Louis, their first son is born.

1981 Sue and Grahame marry secretly on Valentine’s day.

1982 Sue develops prints and fabrics for Daniel Weil’s Bag Radio for the Memphis Show in Milan, Italy.

1983 Grahame and Sue open the first Timney-Fowler shop and studio in Portobello Green, Notting Hill. They work on their first home furnishings fabrics and fashion accessories under the Timney- Fowler brand. Sue and Grahame also work on commissions for Paul Smith and Joseph Ettedgui.

1984 Max, Sue’s second son, is born. Timney-Fowler begin to work with Barneys in New York.

1985 Unitika, a large Japanese textile company, signs a licence with Timney- Fowler for fashion and home furnishings fabrics which lasts seventeen years.

1986 Timney-Fowler moves to Chelsea. Todd, Sue’s third son, is born.

1987 Sue decorates her house in Chiswick. Product lines including china are developed.

1988 The Resources Council in America presents Timney-Fowler with the 1988 Roscoe Award for Product Design.

1989 Timney-Fowler receives their second award from the Resources Council. Sue and Grahame work with fashion designers Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg.

1990 Sue sets up the interior design division of Timney-Fowler.

1991 Sue is selected as the Prince Philip Designer of the Year by the Royal College of Art. She designs a collection of fabrics for the Japanese Imperial Palace. The Textile Institute awards

her the Institute Medal for Design in recognition of her substantial contribution to the field of textile design.

1992–1999 Timney-Fowler moves the studio and shop to West London. Sue develops home furnishings fabric collections and fashion licenses for projects in England, the United States, and Japan. Grahame starts a menswear line for the American market.

2000 The Royal College of Art appoints Sue Visiting Professor of Textiles.

2001 Grahame leaves Timney-Fowler and establishes himself full-time in New York. Sue takes over Timney-Fowler.

2002 Sue Timney Limited is launched.

2003 Sue opens a Sue Timney showroom at 331 Portobello Road, two blocks away from the first shop.

2006 The Royal College of Art appoints Sue an Honorary Fellow.

2007 Sue marries Justin de Villeneuve after meeting him in the Dover Street Arts Club the previous year. The couple move to Kent.

2008 Timney-Fowler is represented in Chelsea Harbour Design Centre.

2009 Sue is commissioned by The Rug Company in London to design carpets. She is appointed a trustee of The Laura Ashley Foundation.

2010 Sue is appointed a Director of THE British Institute of Interior Design. A retrospective of Sue’s work is shown at The Fashion and Textile Museum in London.

2011 The House Of Fraser launch the TIMNEY brand for fashion and home. Sue becomes President Elect of the British Institute of Interior Design. (BIID)

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