20 January 2023 – 26 January 2024
Nina Gronw-Lewis
Mythical Woods
Stanton Guildhouse, Stanton Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7NE
ART from HEART and The Stanton Guildhouse Trust proudly present Mythical Woods, a multimedia group art exhibition Celebrating the Woodlands and its enchanted stories and myths!

16 May – 7 June 2023
seam collective
A Visible THREAD
Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park, Lighthouse Road, Swanage, BH192JL
seam collective presents A Visible THREAD; eleven seam artists have created exciting new works with textiles to stimulate thought, connection and conversation. The artists are: Alice-Marie Archer, Lou Baker, Oliver Bliss, Jane Colquhoun, Nina Gronw-Lewis, Helen MacRitchie, Joy Merron, Lydia Needle, Angie Parker, Linda Row, and Penny Wheeler. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

27 May – 11 June 2023
Jane Colquhoun
Purbeck Arts Weeks Open Studios
Boilerhouse Gallery, Sandy Hill Arts, Corfe Castle, Dorset BH20 5JF
Jane Colquhoun is exhibiting new work at Boilerhouse Gallery, an artist run cooperative based at Sandy Hill Arts – a growing complex of artist studios nestled in a small wooded valley opposite Corfe Castle Railway Station in the former milk depot. The Boilerhouse Gallery will be showing a diverse range of work including ceramics, glass, jewellery, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and textiles.

3 – 10 June 2023
Nina Gronw-Lewis
Fold: Structures and Bindings
ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB
The latest offerings from ABCD, a group of book artists based at Dove Studios in Butleigh. This year they are working as a group with specific bindings, however, each artist’s interpretation and use of these bindings will be very different and, they hope, inspiring.

16 June – 13 August 2023
Lydia Needle
Stitched + Dyed
Dunedin Fine Art Center, 1143 Michigan Blvd, Dunedin, Florida 34698, USA
A selection of the FIFTY BEES are going off to Florida. Lydia Needle is the lead artist and curator of FIFTY BEES: The Interconnectedness of All Things which she devised in 2017, as a collaborative, multi-disciplinary art project to raise awareness about the diversity and plight of British bees.

17 June – 2 July 2023
Lou Baker
Social Scaffolding tour
Gloucester
Lou Baker with Alyson Minkley and Juliet Duckworth. An immersive, interactive and participatory art exhibition promoting connection and wellbeing. Based in empty shops and busy town centres, venues and opening times etc will be announced nearer the time. Follow @social.scaffolding.artists on Instagram for regular updates and email socialscaffoldingartcollective@gmail.com for more information. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

8 July 2023
Helen MacRitchie
Solar Natural Dyeing
Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott, Lechlade, GL7 3HJ
Helen MacRitchie will be demonstrating solar natural dyeing in a jar as a drop-in activity. Free with house admittance.

13 – 16 July 2023
Julie Heaton
Royal College of Art Textiles MA Show
Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
This summer, Julie Heaton completes her MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art. The two years of studies have been transformative. Through thinking and making, Julie has moved from an artist who reproduces photorealistic embroidery to one who embodies contemplative touch with impassioned mark that examine her response to unspeakable events. See Julie’s work alongside the inspirational and talented 2023 Textile graduates at the Truman Brewery. This July, the show will showcase across the RCA in one venue, an event not to be missed.

15 – 30 July 2023
Lou Baker
Social Scaffolding tour
Bristol
Lou Baker with Alyson Minkley and Juliet Duckworth. An immersive, interactive and participatory art exhibition promoting connection and wellbeing. Based in empty shops and busy town centres, venues and opening times etc will be announced nearer the time. Follow @social.scaffolding.artists on Instagram for regular updates and email socialscaffoldingartcollective@gmail.com for more information. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

5 August – 2 September 2023
Lou Baker, Leah Hislop and Nicola Turner
Wells Art Contemporary
Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells BA5 2UE
Installations by Lou Baker, Leah Hislop and Nicola Turner have been selected for Wells Art Contemporary, the international open competition installed annually in the unique spaces of Wells Cathedral. Lou Baker’s Life/Blood is a dramatic series of multiple, hanging, red, knitted sculptures, which is site-responsive; shapeshifting, formlessness and unravelling. It’s immersive, alluring, yet somehow, also, uncanny. Leah Hislop will be creating a site specific installation that is constructed entirely from folded paper triangles, made from donated and unwanted books. The three points of the triangle folds reflect on the themes of The Holy Trinity, the symbol of the number three, guidance and protection. Nicola Turner will be creating The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past, a large site-specific installation created from locally sourced wool that will respond and converse with Wells Cathedral. The work aims to draw attention to our interconnection with other beings and matter and to ways of listening to past, present and future.

9 – 15 August 2023
Youngye Cho
Today’s Weather: Warp + Weft
Gallery Insa Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea
The exhibition focuses on exploring how humans should interact with and relate to creatures as artists in a world where our existence is defined by information rather than physical objects. Through their weaving, the artists in this exhibition contemplate which precious values should be preserved amidst the rapidly changing landscape of modern life. They utilize slow aesthetics, working with their hands to create shapes through the repetition of warp and weft. The exhibition’s main theme is freedom in materials, with the weavers breaking free from the traditional constraints of working solely with threads. Instead, they incorporate everyday materials found in our surroundings, such as vinyl, paper, and glass, to create a new weaving project. This fresh and innovative approach to textile art pushes the boundaries of what is possible and showcases the versatility of these unexpected materials.