Beverley Art Gallery has a fantastic exhibition of contemporary textile art from a group of Welsh female artists called Fibre Art Wales, opening this spring.
The exhibition, called Fibre Voices, displays a huge variety of different techniques, materials and themes and is at the cutting edge of contemporary textile art. It will run from 27 March to 15 May.
Two pieces which give a flavor of the exhibition are Bethan Ash’s ‘keeping the homeless warm’ which is a Welsh blanket made from crochet with beer and lager cans cut into circles.
Alison Moger’s ‘time for tea’ is an embroidered and screen-printed piece, which is based upon childhood memories of tablecloths at family gatherings.
Fibre Art Wales was founded in 1999 by a group of six professional artists. Their main aims were to raise the profile of Welsh contemporary fibre art and provide exhibition opportunities, both at home and abroad.
Today the group has 12 members. The Fibre Voices exhibition celebrates the groups tenth anniversary and was first shown at the Canol Ucheldre Centre, Anglesey in 2009.
Each member submitted one to four pieces of work, from large scale tapestries and wall hangings, to minuscule embroideries, installations and sculptures.
Some of the works are designed to be thought-provoking and to express personal or social issues. Some pieces are purely abstract.
For children, there will be a colouring table and a ‘feely fabric table’ with fabrics to sort and explore. The fabric samples have all been kindly donated by W. Boyes and Co, Beverley.
The gallery is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, between 9.30am – 5pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, between 9.30am – 5pm and Saturdays between 9am – 4pm.
This year, the gallery will be open on Good Friday and Easter Saturday but is closed on Easter Monday.
