Exhibitions and Audiences
Material Actions
'Material Actions' is the TFSW exhibition featuring national textile artists, makers and designers including TFSW members.
Material Actions questions how textiles are used actively to affect and contribute to ethical, social, cultural and environmental change.
The focus will be on the special qualities and active role textile practice can bring to challenge these current debates.
Venues and dates:
Bath Spa University Gallery, Sion Hill, Bath
9 January 2012 - 10 February 2012
Create, Bristol
16 July 2011 - 24 September 2011
TFSW member, Alison Harper will be at Create on 16 July with her knitting installation.
Publication:
Plymouth College of Art press have funding to produce a publication to coincide with the exhibition which will be launched at the exhibition opening at PCA. The publication will be designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio and available from Plymouth Art College, gallery.plymouthart.ac.uk and includes a specially commissioned essay by Dr Kate Fletcher www.katefletcher.com.
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MAPS DEFINE THE FUTURE: WHERE ARE YOU NOW? 23 February 2012 - 24 March 2012
The next Textile Forum South West Exhibition is being planned for 2012 at The Brewhouse, Taunton following the Conference in Taunton in March 2011. The theme will be ‘Maps and Mapping’. There will be a catalogue to accompany the exhibition with an essay by Sue Prichard, Curator at the V&A Museum. Follow the artists progress on the blog:
http://mappingthefuturewhereareyou.wordpress.com/
Exhibition dates:
23 February 2012 - 24 March 2012
private view Thursday 23 February 6-8pm
The Brewhouse, Taunton
Below is information about the exhibition and details about how to take part.
'Maps define the future of how we see the world because they give us information that we then react to.' (Prof Jerry Brotton)
This is a call for TFSW members to engage with this theme through discussion and making. The aim is to involve the whole of the TFSW membership to participate in an exhibition in which everyone’s work will be shown.
TFSW is passionate about mapping and networking for those with a textile interest in our region. To kick start this project and as inspiration we offer some ideas to consider:
- Maps are as much to do with philosophy as geography. They are not two-dimensional pictures of the world but windows on to a subtle and complex world-view.
- Maps can show connections between people and places, there can also be gaps and edges and unknowns. The medieval cartographer’s phrase for the unknown was ‘Here be Dragons’.
- Maps can be highly selective and show geographical places (like Taunton), psychological places (different memories), social places (cafes, bars, community centres) and economic places (like different income groups).
- Places are not static. They are always changing.
Here are some questions that we can think about to help us get started on our entries for the exhibition!
How do we capture in maps the evolving world of today?
What does a map mean to you?
What do we mean by maps and what are they showing?
Where are you now?
HOW TO TAKE PART IN THE MAPPING THE FUTURE: WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - THE EXHIBITION
Members of the Textile Forum South West are invited to take part in the exhibition Mapping the Future: Where are you now? at The Brewhouse, Taunton in 23 February to 24 March 2012. The private view party will be on Thursday 23 February 2012 6-8pm.
The work should be inspired by mapping and networking with a relationship to textiles.
The aim is to show work by each member of TFSW who enters.
The work submitted can be in any format, 2D wall hung, 3D, digital, relief, performance etc etc.
Each participant will be responsible for delivering and collecting work from The Brewhouse, Taunton on the required dates.
The work in the exhibition is to be curated by The Brewhouse team, members of the Textile Forum South West plus an invited guest.
There will be an entry fee of £15 for up to three pieces of work.
TO SUBMIT WORK, SEND:
A proposal for up to 3 pieces of new work, together with a description, approximate size and how the work responds to the title Mapping the Future.
Alternatively:
A statement about recent existing work detailing how you feel it responds to the title Mapping the Future. Please indicate materials used, the finished dimensions, method of display.
Your proposal should be no more than one A4 page as a folder on a CD or a paper copy. Include up to 3 images as jpegs on a CD or a paper copy, illustrating your ideas for new work or images of recent work.
Include a brief CV no more than one A4 page
A cheque for £15 made out to TFSW
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 31 July 2011.
Send to:
TFSW Exhibition Coordinator
c/o 5 Holywell Road
Wotton-under-Edge
Glos GL12 7NJ
Queries:
contact@textileforumsouthwest.org
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About the Exhibitions and Audiences subgroup
The exhibitions and audiences sub-group of the Forum aims to develop opportunities for exhibiting textiles within the region and help to create new audiences for textiles. Through exhibitions and related activities the group aims to raise the profile of textile practitioners and promote the diversity of textile practice found in the southwest.
The group plan textile exhibitions in the region and look at the way textiles are presented, viewed and critically discussed. The group aims to exhibit the work of south west textile makers (within the region and beyond). The group also aims to explore and discuss the work of textile artists and practitioners from outside the region through exhibitions, visits and visual/written information.
All members of TFSW are welcome to join this group. If you would like further information on the group or want to find out about the next meeting or exhibition please contact Brenda Miller, exhibitions group convener at: contact@textileforumsouthwest.org
