CREATIVE textiles celebrate the sixties in this interesting exhibition. Multiple techniques, to suit the subject matter, include stitch, applique and needle felting, as well as machine and hand embroidery. All very colourful, they are presented by the membership of the Eastern Region Textiles Forum. 

The sixties was the decade of Pop Art, psychedelic print and vibrant colour, The Beatles and Twiggy. Pop Art peaking in the 1960’s began as a revolt against main stream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist and what constituted an artwork, most famously optimised by Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans. The sixties began bleak and restricted but by the end, people were full of hope and optimism for a better future. This was a defining decade for Britain.

A SIXTIES CELEBRATION “FLOWER POWER”

29th June – 6th August

The Gallery at Parndon Mill 

Elizabeth Way 

Harlow 

Essex 

CM20 2HP