Tracing Threads

15 July to 24 September 2006

Tracing Threads is textile art at its most exciting and innovative, challenging the boundaries of working with textiles. The content is selected from new work made, in response to the title, by members of the 62 Group of artists. As always, 62 Group members have produced very individual and personal work for this exhibition. 2D diagrams are transformed into 3D boxed works and trace the pathway of threads through a woven braid. Family threads are explored as a member traces her links between her mother, a dressmaker, and her daughter, a textile artist. Another member links fragments of old textiles to clothing forms in a series of stitched vests.

Amanda Clayton

The 62 Group was established in 1962 to enable professional textile artists to exhibit and promote their work, to develop public awareness and to raise the profile of textile art. Their last show Encounters at Cambridge Zoological Museum provoked the following response from a visitor ‘… an absolute breakthrough for Cambridge! Wonderful! Subtle and inspiring’.

www.62group.org.uk

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