GOING FOR GOLD By the Contemporary Textile Art Group (TAG) at the WYPW Gallery

The Gallery at West Yorkshire Print Workshop is pround to announce our new exhibition ‘Going For Gold’ which opens on Tuesday 31st of January and runs until Monday 13th of February.

'Going for Gold’‘ is the theme of exciting new work created by the contemporary Textile Art Group (TAG).

The exhibition explores aspects of gold which have little to do with competing for medals. Members of TAG, which was founded in 1994 to promote textiles as an art form, have interpreted “Going for Gold” in diverse ways, from studying highly artificial Art Nouveau jewelled insects and the techniques used in creating Moorcroft pottery to gold in the natural world: leaves, hay meadows, honeybees. True gold and fools’ gold, alchemical gold and the end-of-the-rainbow gold have all inspired pieces in this exhibition. Conventional and experimental methods of creating work echo another aspect of the theme of going for gold: aspiring to a “gold standard” of originality and quality.

The Gallery at West Yorkshire Print Workshop is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10.30 – 6.30pm and Saturday 10.30 – 3.00pm.

For further information please see www.wypw.org

Textile Art Group (TAG)

The Textile Art Group was established in 1994. TAG is a thriving group of highly motivated people united by the medium of textiles and an aim to widen the perception of textiles as an art form.

Members work as individuals, with monthly meetings at Bankfield Museum, Halifax providing a forum where help and encouragement can be given. Visiting speakers, master classes, regular exhibitions, critical assessments and fellow members’ comments all provide the impetus to produce work that is visually stimulating and of a high standard.

The group undertakes commissions such as those that can be seen on permanent display at Leeds General Infirmary. Many members also contributed to work for the Leeds Tapestry 2000 project. Some members accept individual commissions.