Not quite quilts? Striking textile art at Devon Guild gallery
Exhibition:
'VOICES' - exhibition of Quilt Art
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Saturday 14 January - Sunday 26 February 2012
Another
exciting exhibition hosted at this large contemporary craft gallery located on
the edge of Dartmoor.
International, professional quilt makers have produced highly individual work which is
brought together by a shared vision: to achieve wider recognition of the quilt
- but as contemporary art.
Historically, quilting is not given the same prestige as fine art and is usually thought of as folksy, domestic and functional. The work
on show here challenges these ideas as exhibitors apply to their quilts a unique
variety of artistic approaches such as paint, digital and screen printing,
large-scale pleating, text/type and collage.
Viewed
hanging, laid flat - and even heaped, in the gallery these pieces move closer to an
art form. The internationalism of the Quilt Art group – members are from the
United
Kingdom,
Ireland,
Belgium,
Hungary,
Germany,
the Netherlands,
Denmark
and United
States of America
– suggests that older textile-based traditions are developing into new cultural
stories. Visitors can also 'patch it themselves' and add to a large DIY quilt in the gallery. A special free, 'drop in and quilt' family day runs on 18 February (10am-4pm).
PRESS
& FURTHER DETAILS: http://www.crafts.org.uk/current-exhibition.aspx
FREE.
Open daily. 10am-5.30pm. 01626 8322233
Devon
Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside
Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon
TQ13 9AF
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