Oxmarket are looking forward to welcoming Phoenix Contemporary Textiles in the John Rank gallery with their exhibition Wild and Wilder! Formed in 1992 Phoenix Contemporary Textiles is a group of artists with established and diverse textile-inspired practices. They exhibit every two years as this allows the members time to work on their own projects and to explore their themes in depth.
Phoenix hold monthly meetings allowing them to maintain a continual dialogue about their work and so ensure that their exhibitions are cohesive and thought provoking.
With imaginative and innovative exhibitions, they set out to stimulate new ideas and challenge people’s perception of textile art by bringing together a variety of ideas and media to create large and small scale wall-hung and three-dimensional artwork.
Phoenix exhibitions offer different perspectives on a common theme and their artistic responses to WILD and WILDER! range from exploring the natural world via crazy portraits, to extreme architecture. Members of Phoenix Contemporary Textiles taking part in this exhibition are:
Maria-Ghislaine Beauce textiles
Joan Bingley wirework, mixed media
Lynne Butt artwork
Hazel Cilia artwork, textiles
Jo Coombes textiles, mixed media
Rosaline Darby textiles, mixed media
Kate Davis textile
Bobbie Frances textile
Joan Glasgow textiles
Robertta McPherson embroidery
Patti Taylor mixed media, books
Linda Walsh mixed media
Joan West basketry
