Interventions Exhibition - 62 Group (Part 2)

Thank you to everyone who has given me such encouragement about my blogging. I would especially like to thank Gina who mentioned me in her blog and increased the awareness of mine. I hope that you will all come back!

As promised in my last post, here is a few more of the pieces that were in the 62 Group exhibition.

I really admire the work of Audrey Walker and the effects she creates. The layering and the directionality of the stitching always impresses me.  Audrey was inspired by the hats in the collection, which reminded her of her student days and trying hats on in Oxford Street.

Audrey Walker

Audrey Walker - Close-up

Anyone who read my Soft Circuit post will understand why I was interested to see Sumi Perera's bag in the exhibition.  This one was more complicated than mine and certainly more thoughtful.

Jeanette Appleton embedded delicate garment pieces into wool and moulded them to represent china. This could be another way to incorporate precious pieces into some textile art. 

There were many more pieces at the exhibition, some behind glass which made it difficult to photograph. Even if you weren't able to see the exhibition, I hope that through these posts, you have enjoyed seeing what you have missed!

On sale in the shop was the 62 Group's new book Radical Thread, which just had to be bought. So I bought it.

If you would like a preview of what's inside the book, then have a look at the publishers web site. You can preview a number of pages - well worth a visit.

Next time, I'll be back to share the results of some of my experiments printing with my gridy thermofax.

Interventions Exhibition - 62 Group (part 1)

On Saturday I went to the Interventions exhibition at Platt Hall Gallery of Costume which is part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 62 Group . The exhibition pieces were based on responses to the collections within the Gallery of Costume. It was nice to see work by some of my favourite textile artists as well the work of artists I'm not familiar with.

I thought you might be interested in seeing some of the work from the exhibition:

Jae Maries had four pieces in the exhibition and below is just one of them. Jae based her work on the contrast of women's working clothes and their leisure clothes, from the mid 19th Century. I really like Jae's work and I chose Jae as one of three textile artists to profile, when I was on my City & Guilds course.

Jae Maries

I also like the fun, cheery style of Rachel Howard. I was excited to see that Rachel is running a sketching course at City lit in July but I am disappointed that I cannot make it. Rachel's worked was inspired by the Victorian picture buttons in the collection and based her buttons on her own family life.

Rachel Howard

Rachel Howard - Close-up of button

Jane McKeating was inspired by the collection of neck ties to produce some lovely printed and stitched ties. It's not a great photograph but I hope you get the idea.

Jane McKeating

Julia Burrowes had two very different pieces of work in the exhibition but both were based on the idea of using pieces of fabric which have a particular significance and importance to you. The idea being that you retain a portion of the fabric in your piece and then you can throw the rest of it away and so creating more space. I like the idea. My friend Helen particularly liked the idea and I think she may have more textiles with sentimental value than I have.  I am keen to encourage Helen into the world of textiles and so if anyone has any ideas where you could get cubes suitable for holding the cloth then please let me know.

Julia Burrowes

Julia Burrowes - Detail

I have found it very useful writing this blog post as it has made me review and look back at the work in more detail and I have noticed things I didn't when I was at the exhibition.

There's still a few more things I would like to show you but I'll leave that for another post.