Art Textiles: Made in Britain

​Art Textiles: Made in Britain comprises of Bethan Ash, Louise Baldwin, Pauline Barnes, Cas Holmes, Rosie James, Edwina Mackinnon, Sandra Meech, Sylvia Paul, Stephanie Redfern, and Christine Restall, some of the leading textile artists working in Britain today.

In our THE ARTISTS section you can also see images of all our members' work, and information and contact details about each artist.

​We sadly lost one of our founding members, the lovely Ineke Berlyn in February 2017. She was much loved and admired, and such a positive and life enhancing person throughout her illness. There is a selection of her work in our THE ARTISTS section, and in our group exhibitions section.

Our aim is to promote British art textiles and to ensure their future; to introduce them to new audiences and to continually stretch the boundaries with new, vibrant work. 

We have been very fortunate in that Upper Street Events, who run The Festival of Quilts and The Knitting and Stitching Shows, share our vision. They want to celebrate and promote British art textiles, and have agreed to give us a permanent home at The Festival of Quilts, at the NEC, Birmingham, UK. The show will then tour to a number of venues; see GROUP EXHIBITIONS for dates.

Every two years we will mount a brand new exhibition of work, and this gallery will premiere at the Festival of Quilts. The artists who comprise the group cover a wide range of textile art interpretations and styles which makes for some very exciting and diverse exhibitions. Every two years we invite two guest members to exhibit with us at the Festival of Quilts and our subsequent touring shows.

For 2020 at the Festival of Quilts our latest theme is Found. This fantastic theme will offer our members a wonderful opportunity to make some innovative new work, which will be firstly be shown at the NEC, Birmingham, in August 2020, and then will tour to a number of venues. 

Our theme for 2018 was Wild, and some amazing work was shown in our Festival of Quilts gallery in 2018. This gallery was one of the most popular exhibitions at the show, with visitors enjoying and appreciating the range of work and talent on show.

​We also had two guest members for this show, Elizabeth Brimelow and Jessica Grady. See more of their gorgeous work in our THE ARTISTS section.

Go to the GROUP EXHIBITIONS page from the menu above, to see images of Wild, Concealed, our 2016 themed show, and our 2014 debut show, Identity, as well as the dates of our exhibitions.

Most of our members teach workshops and courses throughout the year, and take part in exhibitions. Why not take a look at their websites and blogs to see what is coming up; the links are in the Artists section on this website.

Don’t forget that you can keep up with us on Facebook, where we will be keeping our page fresh and interesting. We will be posting images and news about other work we are undertaking, together with news about what various members of the group are up to.

​We do hope you will enjoy these posts and that they will allow you to get to know all of us and our work even better. 
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We are an exhibiting group of professional artists and currently are unfortunately not open to new members. We are also, as a group, unable to offer opinions on work or offer mentoring. 

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