Tech Styles exhibition ready and waiting for Visitors

The exhibition is open as from Saturday 14th March 2015, everything looks different in a new location. There are new exhibits and extension work for sale in the shop. 
We are now having a breather before starting on our pieces for The Whitaker, Rawtenstall in the autumn.

NANTWICH MUSEUM EXHIBITION

This time next week we will hanging our pieces at Nantwich Museum. The above image is a closeup of Jackie Brough's installation. Come along after the 14th March to see the full exhibition.

Closeup of armelle's Tech Styles textile artvwork

This is a closeup of Armelle Hatch's textile art for our exhibition Tech Styles that starts on the 14th March at Nantwich Museum, Cheshire. It reflects the fish run at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal.
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Tech Styles Exhibition

Norma Hopkins preparing for Nantwich exhibition

Norma is preparing her sketchbook for the up and coming exhibition at Nantwich Museum in March. Our Tech Styles exhibition is going on tour and this venue will be its second outing.

March 13th until June 14th 2015.

 

 

 

 This  image shows a set of work taken from some elements in my sketch book work. The images have been digitally worked on in Photoshop and printed out on a variety of papers then further worked into with Unison soft pastels. The bottom piece is from a Southport walk. Small folded papers were crushed and folded into a small book form. One minute drawing were the base then over worked with Unison Soft Pastels.  

 

 

 This piece started as an experimental mark making exercise using black ink and a variety of mark making tools. The piece was then worked into with Unison soft pastels and watercolour pencils

 

This piece was based on the idea of inlets and waterways … A sort of aerial view of the landscape. In the process,  Lutradur was applied for texture and worked into with Unison soft pastels and watercolour pencils.

EXTENSION WORK FOR NANTWICH. - 'Tech Styles'

We are all preparing for the up and coming exhibition at Nantwich in two months.

These are some sneak images of Margaret Steeden's extension pieces. They use the same disperse dyes that she employed for the substrate for her  'Humble Circle'.

More details on our website. 

 The seed head inspiration came from the garden at Quarry Bank Mill where the exhibition " Tech Styles" was first on display in 2013.

 There will be a range of Sketchbooks and smaller 3D pieces for sale in the shop during the exhibition  
14th March until 13th June 2015.

New Year , New Exhibitions

TEXTILE 21 would like to wish all our followers a HAPPY NEW YEAR.  The images above show some examples of our Secret Santa cards that we exchanged at our Christmas get together in December.

It going to be a busy one for us this year.
Two of our previous exhibitions go on tour.
Firstly "TechStyles" which was first exhibited at Quarry Bank Mill in 2013 will be at Nantwich Museum between the 14 th March and 13th June 2015.
If you missed TechStyles the first time around click the label links on the right hand side for posts on our individual journeys. Or visit our website www.textile21.co.uk

Then later in the autumn " Fashioned in Silk" will be once again be exhibited but this time as part of a larger exhibition at the Whitaker Art Gallery in Rawtenstall. 

" Fashioned in Silk, Created in Colour" 
Our silk organza toiles are the starting point for a series of developmental works that will be a riot of colour.  Each member has taken an element of their toile design and developed it to create additional pieces of textile art.
Images of the original exhibition are easy to find. Click on the label links on the right hand side or go to our website www.textile21.co.uk

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Taslima Ahmad Tech Styles

Taslima's fashion based work for this exhibition has been inspired by the changing technology at Quarry Bank Mill

Taslima Ahmad

Taslima Ahmad

Taslima Ahmad

Taslima Ahmad

Norma Hopkins Tech Styles

Embroidery in progress by Norma Hopkins

Landscape Doodle- Norma Hopkins

Norma Hopkins- working into drawing

Margaret Steeden - Tech Styles

These sneak previews of Margaret's work in progress for the Quarry Bank Mill exhibition show the range of techniques she has employed. The background fabric has been transfer printed and free machine embroidery, hand embroidery and stencilling have been utilised.
Margaret is celebrating 'The Humble Circle', which has found itself at the heart of many engineering designs over the centuries.

Norma Hopkins Tech Styles

Norma Hopkins Work in Practice

In this work, Norma celebrates the Greg family’s ethos of embracing advances in new technology.  It references Quarry Bank’s construction of a Larinier fish and eel pass, created to assist the progress of migrating fish on their journey to their natural habitat. 

For her, the work is about rising above the obstacles that we are often presented with in our own life journey.  However, she invites you to interpret what the work means for you. 

Jenny Rydell Tech Styles

Jenny has taken inspiration from the buildings at Quarry Bank Mill. Her textile work has developed out of drawings she made after a visit to the site.

Jackie Brough Tech Styles

Jackie has been busy working away on new work for Tech Styles exhibition at Quarry Bank Mill.

Her work consists of three pieces, each using different materials and techniques, exploring the progress of children's education.
 

Jackie Brough Tech Styles Exhibition

Jackie Brough Work in Progress

Jackie Brough working on her piece for the forthcoming Tech Styles Exhibition

Maria Walker Tech Styles

The articulation of the unwritten narratives of ordinary working class people has underpinned Maria Walker's textile-based practice for a number of years, so she was delighted by her discovery of an Indenture which was drawn up in 1795 between the apprentice Ann Bates and Samuel Greg in the Quarry Bank Mill archives. Her textile installation relies on the neutrality of the actual text from the Indenture to invite the viewer to 'fill in the gaps' about the rest of Ann Bates' life. The inclusion of the typewriter, which was not invented until 60 year after this Apprentice Indenture was written, alludes to the ever-changing technologies at the Mill.