Events are FREE & OPEN TO ALL – no booking required, just turn up!

Tuesday 4th June. 1-2pm
62 Group, Goldsmiths and beyond. Led by Heather Belcher & Lucy Brown

62 Group Artists Heather Belcher and Lucy Brown will be in conversation, introducing the 62 Group, outlining its aims, history and its connections through textiles at Goldsmiths and beyond. As Goldsmith Textile Alumni, and 62 Group exhibiting and committee members, Heather and Lucy will reflect on their past and present individual practices and future projects of the 62 Group. There will be the opportunity to ask questions and join in discussion while having a chance to handle samples from the 62 Group’s Handling Collection.

Tuesday 11th June. 1-2pm

The Witchcraft Series (Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead) by Anne Jackson, 62 Group artist.
Anne Jackson’s current work titled The Witchcraft Series, explores witch persecution in European history, the idea of “the witch” and witchcraft in contemporary culture. Anne sees this subject as a rich metaphorical territory, with its resonances of fear of the unknown, the feminine, and the “other”. Anne will discuss these themes further in context with her personal practice.

For queries contact; Goldsmiths Textile Collection:textiles@gold.ac.uk
www.gold.ac.uk/textile-collection@textilesgold

Goldsmiths, University of London travel information http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/

Constance Howard Gallery 
Goldsmiths,
University of London

Deptford Town Hall Building

New Cross Road

London
 SE14 6AF

Telephone: +44(0)20 7717 2210/2295

The 62 Group exhibition Small Talk will be shown in both the Constance Howard Gallery and the Special
Collections Library.

Opening hours: Constance Howard Gallery 11 am – 5 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays only
No appointment necessary during the period of the exhibition, however, if visitors would like to see
anything from the collection or the archive then an appointment should be made.

Opening hours: Special Collections Library 10 am – 6 pm Monday – Friday

The 62 Group has a strong link with Goldsmiths as many of the exhibiting members were past students
and indeed teachers. “Small Talk”, as the title suggests, brings together new small-scale work in a
range of mediums in response to the gallery space.

‘Small Talk’ exhibition events

Events are FREE & OPEN TO ALL – no booking required, just turn up!

Tuesday 4th June. 1-2pm
62 Group, Goldsmiths and beyond. Led by Heather Belcher & Lucy Brown

62 Group Artists Heather Belcher and Lucy Brown will be in conversation, introducing the 62 Group, outlining its aims, history and its connections through textiles at Goldsmiths and beyond. As Goldsmith Textile Alumni, and 62 Group exhibiting and committee members, Heather and Lucy will reflect on their past and present individual practices and future projects of the 62 Group. There will be the opportunity to ask questions and join in discussion while having a chance to handle samples from the 62 Group’s Handling Collection.

Tuesday 11th June. 1-2pm
The Witchcraft Series (Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead) by Anne Jackson, 62 Group artist.

Anne Jackson’s current work titled The Witchcraft Series, explores witch persecution in European history, the idea of “the witch” and witchcraft in contemporary culture. Anne sees this subject as a rich metaphorical territory, with its resonances of fear of the unknown, the feminine, and the “other”. Anne will discuss these themes further in context with her personal practice.

For queries contact; Goldsmiths Textile Collection:textiles@gold.ac.uk
www.gold.ac.uk/textile-collection @textilesgold
Goldsmiths, University of London travel information http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/

Anne Jackson exhibits in the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia. Her work is held in the collections of the City of Aalborg, Denmark, the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, the Geffrye Museum, London, the Christie Hospital, Manchester, and other public and private collections. Her work is featured in a number of publications, most recently, Tapestry: A Woven Narrative, (T. Wilcox, C. Penney, F. Mathison; Black Dog, London, 2012) and Textiles: The Art of Mankind (M.Schoeser; Thames & Hudson, London, 2012). Her practice also encompasses critical writing and curating.

Lucy Brown is exhibiting newly commissioned works – ‘the secrets we keep from ourselves’ and ‘Veils’ (an outside intervention) in Lace Works inspired by Nottingham Lace.

Further Information at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
‘Lace Works’ is part of ‘Lace: Here: Now’ – a season of lace exhibitions and events that celebrate the heritage of the Nottingham Lace industry and demonstrates that lace still inspires, fascinates and excites.
Lace: Here: Now
Lace Works

‘Warp & Weft; Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Interiors’.
A new book by Dr Jessica Hemmings published by Bloomsbury; £19.99. Lucy Brown’s work is featured in the ‘Emotion’ chapter of this new publication. Warp & Weft has recently been reviewed in the current issue of Crafts magazine, No 239 Nov/Dec 2012 by Mary Schoeser.

Furthermore, a specific interest in line and how it can be distorted and formed has led to a number of varied outcomes. How meaning is constructed and understood from line and how it can be transformed by contemporary sensibilities into a new visual language is what Stephens pursues within her work. As a result internal oppositions exist within the work; geometric and organic, construction and deconstruction, order and chaos.

The introduction of technology alongside hand crafted techniques has always been of great interest to Stephens. Laser cutting and digital technologies are combined with personal abstracted weave techniques throughout her work. This enables Stephens to establish her own unique voice through the way in which she assembles the individual fragments. These arrangements of forms, colour combinations, outlines of structure, and the degree of complexity or openness are all choices that she makes during the making process.

Michelle Stephens graduated from the University of Ulster Belfast with First Class Honours from her B.A. (Hons) in Fine and Applied Arts degree, in June 2010. Following a placement year in the US, Stephens returned to complete her degree in Belfast, only then to stay on another year as Artist in Residence within the Textile Art Department. Most recently she has now taken up a place on the Making IT program with Craft NI at R-Space Gallery, Lisburn for two years.

Stephens is now a part-time lecturer in the University of Ulster, Belfast. Complementing her practice with art workshops and demonstrations in art institutions enables Stephens to share her processes and experiences with the public, students and other practitioners. As well as this she also facilitates workshops in a variety of environments including hospitals, heritage sites, art centres as well as primary, secondary and tertiary education.

Larger work will be for sale in the exhibition. Small studies will be for sale in the Shop within the Show. Hand made Cards and postcards will also be for sale in the shop.

Thursday 22nd – Sunday 25th November 2012. Opening hours: 10am-5.30pm, except Sunday, closes at 5pm.

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See News for information on the 62 Group Symposium which takes place in Harrogate on Saturday 24th November, 1.30-4.30pm.

In their 50th anniversary year, members of the 62 Group of Textile Artists, invited artists and curatorial professionals will reflect on their individual and collective practices. The symposium will offer the unusual opportunity to meet and share discussions with a large number of the Group’s artists, as well as giving Group members the chance to meet and interact with their viewers.

Six pertinent topics will be discussed in small, informal focus groups to encourage interaction, facilitated by an invited chair:

Who, What and Why? chaired by Audrey Walker MBE and Jan Beaney

Diversity of Practice chaired by Hilary Bower

Surviving in the Workplace chaired by Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor

What’s in a Name? chaired by Professor Ann Morrell

Curatorial Responsibility chaired by June Hill

The 62 Group in Print chaired by Professor Lesley Millar MBE

Saturday 24th November 2012; 1.30-4.30pm – The Knitting and Stitching Show, Harrogate International Centre (Hall F – Basement). The event is free, but booking is required.

Shizuko joined the Group in 1998 and saw herself as an artist working in a form of figurative fine art but it was important to her that the viewer recognised the textile root of her work. Her beautifully delicate life drawings in thread on fine muslin were always an arresting addition to our exhibitions and we will dearly miss her searching and sensitive eye.

We were privileged to have her as a member.

Jae Maries (Chairperson of the 62 Group of Textile Artists)

Models in New York II (detail); cotton muslin, silk, cotton and synthetic threads, 2.5m wide x 1.14m high. Photo: Junichi Kanzaki