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Date: 8th October 2021 - 15th January 2022. All that Remains: Thirty Years in the Making by Neil Bottle This new body of work, first shown at Contemporary Applied Arts and the Ruthin Craft Centre, celebrates acclaimed textile artist Neil Bottle’s 30 years as a textile designer. Neil’s fascinating textile hangings are inspired by family photographs, a sense of time passing and how we remember things – in both real and false memories. The textile prints are accompanied by personal, sentimental objects that were the starting point for many of the stories Neil is telling.  Commission for the Worshipful Company of Dyers, London, Tender 550th Anniversary (2021).
I’m excited to announce that I have been working on a new commission for the Worshipful Company of Dyers, London, Tender 550th Anniversary (2021). The commission is to create an artistic timeline on fabric, representing the use of dyes as they were introduced through the centuries, to the present day. The artwork consists of two 3m long panels. One will depict the realm of Natural Dyes and the other Synthetic dyes. I’ve attached a detail below of the Synthetic Dyes frieze, in which the chronology of synthetic dyes commences from left to right beginning with the city of London skyline, which is a blur of movement and colour in swirling shades of violet and purple. William Perkin looks wise and masterful surrounded by colour chips of mauvine, which he discovered in 1856. The hexagon shape represents both the symbols of dye chemistry and the classic honeycomb motif used in Shibori dying. The artwork is a combination of hand drawing, painting and collage combined with digital design techniques which has been digitally printed at high resolution onto silk. The works are now complete and I’m waiting for a date for the grand opening (date to be announced as Covid has resulted in some delays).  Private View of “All That Remains - Thirty Years in the Making” at Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London “Thirty Years in the Making- All That Remains”
Two Solo exhibitions of new work, representing 16 months of research work, will be showing at Contemporary Applied Arts in London, 13th September to 19th October and at the Ruthin Craft Centre, 19 October to 12th January 2020 Find out more by clicking the button below... A short film of the install in progress. It been a great day at the CAA Galley today. So great to see the work finished and presented in this context. It makes all the hard work worthwhile. Thanks to the great team at the gallery for the hard work today. Can’t wait for the PV on Thursday!...... “Thirty Years in the Making- All That Remains” Please note that CAA Galley has moved to: 6 Paddington Street, London W1U 5QG exhibitionsTwo Solo exhibitions of new work, representing 16 months of research work, will be showing at Contemporary Applied Arts in London, 13th September to 19th October and at the Ruthin Craft Centre, 19 October to 12th January 2020
 “All That Remains- Thirty Years in the Making”, Wall hanging " Chasing the Birds Away", hand and digital collage printed on cotton satin, detail shown. Solo Exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London13th September – 19th October 2019 https://www.caa.org.uk/ 6 Paddington St, Marylebone, London W1U 5QG Find out more about the CAA exhibition here My current research explores of the connections between analogue and digital photographic processes and traditional and digital textile print technology.
Read more about the project here  “Thirty Years in the Making – All That Remains”, Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award Shortlist Exhibitions at: The Festival of Quilts (www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk) and The Knitting and Stitching Shows (www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com)in Alexandra Palace.
https://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/things-to-do/the-galleries/fine-art-textile-award/  Celebrating 30 years of Neil's renowned textile print practice - this exhibition of new work explores the connections between analogue and digital photographic textile print - resulting in a range of one-off printed wall hangings and textile accessories. gallery 2 & 3 ruthin craft centre19 October 2019 - 12 January 2020
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 | A new series of wall hung pieces, created as a celebration of Bottle’s 30 years working as a textile artist who skilfully combines analogue techniques with computer-aided design and digital print. The exhibition represents a milestone for the artist, repositioning his practice in a research context unconfined by the constraints of his commercial fashion print designs and allowing a new burst of creativity. This solo show also marks his 30 years as an active maker member of CAA. It is part of London Design Festival. This research has been funded by University for the Creative Arts, UCA and by the Ruthin Craft Centre https://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/2019/neil-bottle-thirty-years-in-the-making-all-that-remains/ |
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