Exhibitions
Making as Learning
08/09/2024 to 03/11/2024Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, West Yorkshire
Questioning the roles and limits of learning through the making process, while certainly a beneficial thing for artists working directly with materials, can be seen in the diverse, rich, and personal ways this title has been interpreted in this exhibition. Clearly, all 62 Group members will be able to categorically state that learning does, and…
Tailored
13/05/2023 to 02/07/2023Sunny Bank Mills, 83-85 Town St. Farsley Pudsey LS28 5UJ, West Yorkshire
The 62 Group returns to Sunny Bank Mill, West Yorkshire with a new exhibition titled Tailored. Tailored: from the Latin verb to cut and a word associated particularly with suits and suiting. The cloth produced at Sunny Bank Mill was most commonly used for suits and although they weren’t produced there, Leeds is well known…
Essence
06/10/2022 to 09/10/2022Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London N22 7AY
The 62 Group of Textile Artists was formed 60 years ago in 1962 and was originally known as the 62 Group of Embroiderers. It was originally created to act as a support for its members and to promote textile art through exhibition, education, and the exchange of ideas. The 62 Group still aims to innovate…
Conversations
15/01/2022 to 26/02/2022St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, New Street, Lymington SO41 9BH
People, Places, Materials, Objects The exhibition explores the working relationship that artists have with the world around them and in particular artwork that investigates the creative dialogue that takes place between the artist/maker and the themes: people, place, materials, objects. The exhibition includes a special project by Emily Jo Gibbs, ‘The Boat Builders’ starring apprentices…
Connected Cloth
25/09/2021 to 28/11/2021The Whitaker, Haslingden Road, Rossendale, England, BB4 6RE
Exploring the global nature of textiles This autumn the internationally renowned 62 Group of Textile Artists, will be showing a brand new exhibition as part of the 2021 British Textile Biennial. The theme of this years events focuses on the global context of textiles, textile production and the relationships it creates both historically and now….
Ctrl/Shift Exhibition Scunthorpe
14/12/2019 to 29/02/202020-21 Visual Arts Centre, Church Square, Scunthorpe DN15 6TB
Ctrl/Shift takes shifts and changes as its theme; in particular it is centred on artists whose practice is or has transformed, in small or large ways, especially towards expressions of innovation in textile art. These shifts may be around changing attitudes to control; the introduction of new materials and techniques; and/or the impact of innovative…
Construct
20/07/2019 to 15/09/2019Sunny Bank Mills, 83-85 Town St, Farsley, Pudsey LS28 5UJ
This summer, the 62 Group of Textile Artists will be showcasing a brand new exhibition on the theme ‘CONSTRUCT’. The exhibition will be showing at Sunny Bank Mills, near Leeds, West Yorkshire, from 20th July to 15th September. The gallery has a growing reputation for showcasing contemporary textile art in a setting context rich with…
Making Space
17/06/2016 to 03/09/2016Silk Museum, Macclesfield
The theme of ‘Space’ tied in with the overall theme of Barnaby Arts Festival which runs in Macclesfield every 2 years. 62 Group members were invited to interpret the theme in its widest sense so you can see from the images of the exhibition there was a diverse response resulting in a varied and inspiring…
Ebb & Flow
09/09/2014 to 02/11/2014Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre, Alexandra Dock Grimsby DN31 1UZ
This exhibition of work by members of the 62 Group ran concurrently at Grimsby Minster and the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre and was accompanied by an extensive education programme. Grimsby in N E Lincolnshire UK, the location for the exhibition was once the largest and busiest fishing port in the world and was known as…