14 February-9 June 2024
Alice-Marie Archer
Stitch Field: Alice-Marie Archer’s Agritextiles
Benton Museum of Art, 120 W. Bonita Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Our rapidly changing climates and expanding populations have challenged the pre-existing structures in place for meeting the demand for food and water. Stitch Field offers an alternative to the plastic-filled warehouses of plants associated with hydroponic systems by using knitted sheep’s wool as substrate and replacing engineered crops with locally occurring plants. Alice-Marie Archer hand-knits fiber sculptures that are each embedded with seeds, creating patterns suited to the needs of each seed species—whether it grows best in a divot, pocket, or row. For this site-specific installation at the Benton, the artist has chosen seeds of locally occurring California plants with either edible or medicinal properties.

4 May-1 June
Helen MacRitchie
Oxfordshire Artweeks
West Ox Arts Gallery, Market Square, Bampton OX18 2JH

24 May-16 July 2024
Jane Colquhoun
Abundance
Mowlem Theatre, Shore Road, Swanage, BH191DD
An exhibition by 25 Purbeck artists. Jane will be showing fabric collaged ‘orts’ figures, as showcased in her recent blog post Cut From the Same Cloth.

24-26 May 2024
Lou Baker, Desiree Jeans
Instructions Not Included
KIT FORM Gallery, 37-39 Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS2 8JP
An exhibition exploring how women and girls feel about ageing, by Amanda Hall and over 40 other contributors. Preview Friday 24 May, 6-9pm.

25 May-9 June 2024
Jane Colquhoun
Dorset Arts Weeks + Purbeck Arts Weeks
Boilerhouse Gallery, Sandy Hill Arts, Sandy Hill Lane, Corfe Castle, BH20 5JF
Boilerhouse Gallery is an artist run cooperative based at Sandy Hill Arts, a complex of artists studios nestled in a small wooded valley by Corfe Castle Steam Railway station. The site at Sandy Hills will host artists, musicians, refreshments, workshops, opening from 10am to 5pm daily. The artists work in multiple disciplines and a diverse range of work will be on show.

18 June 2024
Nicola Turner
The Meddling Fiend, Royal Academy (RA) Summer Exhibition
Annenberg Courtyard, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
An installation in the Annenberg Courtyard for the RA Summer Exhibition.

12-14 July and 19-21 July 2024
Joy Merron
No. 6 Bruton, High Street, Bruton, BA10 0AA
Joy will be showing work alongside Pam Eldridge, potter, and Lori Park, sculptor.
Open 10am-4pm.

20 July-31 August 2024
seam textile collective
A Visible THREAD
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon, EX14 1LX
The final iteration of our touring exhibition exploring the visibility and invisibility of thread.

Thread, as cloth, is woven through our lives. It surrounds us like a second skin. Precisely because of these close connections, it becomes almost invisible to us.

A Visible THREAD aims to encourage viewers to rethink their relationship to thread, be aware of its materiality, its sustainability, its possibilities, and its limitations. Through a diverse range of textile disciplines and perspectives, this exhibition brings together work from 15 seam artists to stimulate thought, connection, and conversation.

Please join us for the opening event on Saturday 20 July and enjoy makers demos throughout the day, and the coordinating programme of talks, workshops and demonstrations running for the duration of the exhibition. 

1-31 August 2024
Helen MacRitchie
Solo exhibition
Artspace in St Nicholas, 33 Sutcliffe Avenue, Earley, Reading, RG6 7JN
This solo exhibition will showcase Helen’s work with naturally dyed felted wool.