Shoreline Threads is on!
The Shoreline Threads exhibition at Artists Harbour running from December 11th 2006 to January 31st 2007 has been curated this year after last year’s successful textile exhibition Threads of Trafalgar and our last maritime exhibition Shorelines. The exhibition is a mix of work from emerging and established textile artists who are both local and national.
Traditionally textile groups in history were a way of women expressing their resistance and lack of power in society, however, the pieces in our show have a calm and tranquil feel to them. Indeed the work is made mainly by women who either run workshop groups or are part of textile groups, however, we have one male artist in the exhibition who has used materials associated with masculine fishing traditions.
Jonathan Polkest’s The Pettyfox in the Isles of Scilly and The PZ87 Rosebud are pieces made of textile and gesso with polyethylene (fishing line) thread. Jonathan states “I take objects and regenerate a contemporary meaning in a cyclic revision. Everything I do eventually re-emerges until it is fully complete”.
The piece Thanet Grey Skies by Lorna Dallas Conte is inspired by coastal scapes of land, sea and sky combined with a fascination for colour and an interest in traditional craft skills.
No. 1029 by Margaret Taylor is a wonderful creation sharing beauty inspired by the rhythm and pattern in nature.
Shirley Mundy runs a Craft Group in Portsmouth and Beading Workshops in Bosham and Portsmouth. Her workshops are both private and community based workshops and she has recently had much success and demand for her beading skills in particular.
Frayed Edges is a group of 6 textile artists who formed after meeting each other on a City and Guilds Textile Course. The aim of the group is researching and experimenting with new techniques. The women set each other a challenge on a bi-monthly basis for a new project. Two pieces by Cathy Beach and Margaret Mullice from this group were sold at our Private View but are still on display until the exhibition finishes.
Also on display are John Binet-Fauvel’s fascinating creatures from the sea made of knitted recycled electrical wires.
