New Members 2019
Debbie Lyddon, current chair of the 62 Group welcomes five new members: Jennifer Smith-Windsor (Canada), Gerri Spilka (USA), Sally Spinks (UK), Teresa Whitfield (UK) and Helen Yardley (UK) bringing the total number of exhibiting members and honorary exhibiting members to sixty-eight.
Jennifer Smith-Windsor is a Canadian hand and machine embroiderer. Her textile works incorporate second-hand textiles. She is concerned with the transience of the human experience and the capacity of cloth and clothing to express this fragility and vulnerability.
Jennifer’s art practice focuses almost exclusively on hand embroideryand is drawn to the aesthetics of stark contrasts which she expresses through the juxtaposition of dissimilar materials More…
Gerri Spilka’s textile practice explores human interactions, often in urban settings. Inspired by color and shapes, she often works on several series at a time across various processes which inform each other.
Combined together in different configurations, Gerri’s large, abstract, often anthropomorphic shapes, suggest aspects of the human condition. More...
Sally Spinks is a London based textile artist who graduated in 2008 from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a Master of Fine Art (Studio Practice). Alongside her art practice she also works as a Design Director for a global design consultancy.
Sally is passionate about the medium of textiles, especially anything wool or yarn related, and aims to use her work to push the boundaries of how the medium is perceived in the wider art world. More…
Teresa Whitfield’s research into lace in fashion and textile collections in the museums of England and France manifests itself in highly detailed ink drawings which bear such a close resemblance to real fabric that they occupy an unusual space between the drawing of an object and the recreation of it in a different medium.
Teresa Whitfield’s recent research into the use of machine-made lace in C20th fashion at the National Trust costume collection at Killerton House, Exeter resulted in a life-size ink drawing of a 1970’s blue lace evening dress from the high street chain Richard Shops. More…
Helen Yardley describes her rugs as drawings for floors that have a strong physical and tactile presence. The images she creates are refined, carefully nuanced and as paired down as possible.
Helen regularly works to commission with high profile architects on projects such as the London Stock Exchange and Coutts Bank. She also makes unique one off pieces from her studio/showroom just off Bermondsey Street in London Bridge. More…
