Stitched – Textile Exhibition, ProjectAbility

25th February – 1st April, 2023

Group show

Opening times: 11am – 5pm, Wednesday – Saturday

Free admission

Project Ability Gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow, G1 5HD

Project Ability presents its first ever Textile Exhibition ‘STITCHED’

For this exhibition a select few artists were invited to make new work. There is a wonderful mix of exhibitors, including Doreen Kay and Cameron Morgan, who are both long-time Project Ability artists. Elie Coutts is a textile artist working in Shetland. Tzipporah Johnston is a neurodivergent textile based artist working in Glasgow. Also participating is a small group of artists from Edinburgh at the Garvald studios.

There is a playful mix of work going on in this exhibition. From Tzipporah Johnston’s exquisitely created 3-dimensional textile works featuring eyes peering out at you from within glass domes, to the more traditional embroidery which hangs on the walls. Doreen Kay’s cats and birds have been lovingly stitched onto felt and canvas and show the softer side of a textile practice. Cameron Morgan’s style comes through in his wonderful embroidered artworks; ranging from bugs, birds and insects and crossing over to many well known and loved film and music stars such as Elvis, Laurel and Hardy, Batman and Robin and Wonder Woman!

This textile exhibition will be a delightful feast for the eyes and will show audiences several different techniques and styles for working with embroidery, thread and needle.

Project Ability creates opportunities through inclusive art for all. Since 1984, the project has been supporting, celebrating and platforming diversity within the contemporary visual arts sector. Based in Glasgow in the award winning Trongate 103, they provide a welcoming arts community for people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health. ProjectAbility provides the space and expertise to allow them to express themselves, build confidence and achieve their potential.

Workshops

Create (children and young people with disabilities aged 5-28)

Aspire (adults with learning disabilities)

ReConnect (people with lived experience of mental ill health)

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