Exhibition programme
The Age of Elegance?
Thursday 16 February 2012-Saturday 19 May 2012
The Age of Elegance? is a creative interpretation of cotton stories that exist in Manchester and across the globe. The exhibition includes projections of spoken word poetry, film, installation, photography and material collected from the Gallery of Costume stores and on a research visit to Gujarat in India.
Formed in September 2011, More Than Fashion 2012 is a group of young creatives, aged 15-25, who have been meeting weekly at the Gallery of Costume. The group have developed a contemporary ‘remix’ of the traditional eighteenth century display at the Gallery of Costume as part of the Cultural Olympiad’s programme Stories of the World, and working in partnership on the shared theme of cotton with five other museums and galleries in the North West (Blackburn Museum, Bolton Museum, Art Gallery and Aquarium, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire Mills, and Whitworth Art Gallery)
Inspirations
To discover more about the project visit the More Than Fashion 2012 tumblr blog, an ongoing, interactive document of the group's research and inspirations.
Want to know more?
If you would like to get involved or find out more please contact Kate Day:
Tel: 0161 2457245
Email: k.day1@manchester.gov.uk
If you enjoyed this you might also want to visit Whitworth Art Gallery’s Cotton: Global Threads exhibition in Manchester until 13 May.
Find out more about Stories of the World in the North West
Competition
Enter our Global Style competition at: http://www.facebook.com/globalstyle2012
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© More Than Fashion 2012
Interventions: The 62 Group, responses to the Gallery of Costume and its collections
13 January 19 May 2012
Interventions celebrates the 50th anniversary of The 62 Group of Textile Artists.
In 1962, a group of embroidery lecturers and recent graduates met to exchange ideas and exhibit together. They hoped to make a difference to attitudes about embroidery, which at that time was not viewed as a serious art form, but more as a female hobby. The 62 Group’s activities soon expanded beyond embroidery to include other disciplines, including art made with paper, metal and textiles.
The title Interventions has inspired the exhibiting artists to respond in an innovative and personal way to the costume collection at Platt Hall. This exhibition of new work displays the Group’s diversity of practice as well as the individual artists’ creative approaches.
The 62 Group has a total of 56 exhibiting members based mainly in the UK. University professors and lecturers, teachers and freelance professional textile artists make up the bulk of the membership, and many members have established international reputations.
The 62 Group is an artist-led organisation and it is a tribute to the members’ commitment and energy in helping to run the Group that, after 50 years, it is still recognised as a leader in contemporary textile art.
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Marilyn Rathbone: Pastimes (The 62 Group)
