2026
Our 2026 exhibition programme showcases a vibrant and varied range of work, with each show as diverse as the artists we represent. Alongside the exhibitions, we offer events, talks, and opportunities to meet the artists, creating rich insight into their practice. With free access to all exhibitions, it’s a welcoming space to explore, enjoy, and purchase original artworks while directly supporting the creative community.
STILL LIVES
An Exhibition of Embroidered Intimacies from Around the World
24 January – 28 February
Janina Bacchetta, Oliver Bliss, Alice Bowen Churchill, Jane Colquhoun, Gary Dickins, Nina Gronw-Lewis, Virginia Heaven, Sandra Meech, Joy Merron & Lydia Needle.
Still Lives presents embroidered works by artists who transform everyday domestic moments into quiet reflections. Through thread, scenes of home and habit are paused and made extraordinary — a gesture, a glance, a shared moment.
The exhibition features intricately hand-stitched works created by women artisans in Karachi, Pakistan, on loan from Alice Kettle, and invites us to slow down, notice the beauty in the ordinary, and find connection in the rhythms of daily life.
Image: Janina Bacchetta.
FLIGHT
7 March – 18 April
Art Textiles: Made in Britain – Louise Baldwin, Jessica Grady, Cas Holmes, Christine Howell, Rosie James, Edwina Mackinnon, Sandra Meech, Sylvia Paul, Stephanie Redfern, Christine Restall & Sarah Waters.
Flight presents new and vibrant works by members of Art Textiles: Made in Britain, a group dedicated to promoting contemporary British textile artists. This exhibition takes inspiration from the natural world — from the delicate hum of a bumblebee to the sweeping arc of migration — exploring the many meanings of flight as movement, freedom, and imagination.
Across a diverse range of disciplines, artists interpret the theme through colour, texture, and form. Wings, journeys, and flights of fancy become metaphors for creative transformation — of ideas, materials, and states of mind. Together, these works reveal the power of textiles to capture motion and stillness, change and continuity, within a single stitched line.
UNFOLD
21- 25 April
ABCD (Artists’ Book Club Dove)
Explore the latest collection of unusual and intriguing artists’ books from the ABCD group of printmakers, poets, textile artists, ceramists, puppeteers, researchers and book lovers who meet regularly at Dove Studios in Butleigh. Enjoy unfolding, opening, unrolling and reading our books. Turn the pages and be inspired!
DRAWN FROM THE WEST
2 May – 13 June
Society of Graphic Fine Art
Artists from the South West membership of the Society of Graphic Fine Art have a wide variety of work on show in this exhibition. The SGFA values drawing as fundamental to its activities, and the work here represents a range of subjects executed using pencils or brushes, engraving or etching tools, threads or pens and ink, all to translate inspiring ideas into drawings.
ANNA KONIG
4 July – 22 August
OPEN 25 Exhibition Winner
Anna Konig is the winner of the OPEN 25 Exhibition, recognised for the originality, skill, and vibrancy of her work. Through stitch, collage, and techniques of mending and making, she creates richly textured pieces that explore colour, material, and form.
Her work celebrates transformation — of fragments into whole, of ordinary materials into extraordinary compositions — inviting viewers to linger on detail, texture, and the thoughtful interplay of colour. Konig’s practice reflects a playful yet considered approach to textile art, marking her as one of the most exciting contemporary voices in the field today.
THE MAKING OF A WILDFLOWER YEAR
29 August – 17 October
Julia McKenzie
Julia presents the illustrations she made for the book A Wildflower Year by Frances Tophill, using inks, wax, watercolour and sepia ink applied with dip pen, brush and embossed papers to enhance the stories behind the wildflowers. The sixty illustrations will be featured alongside new work inspired by the book.
CUTTING LIGHT
24 October – 24 December
Steve Manning
Steve is a printmaker specialising in reduction lino print making.
He has adapted a medium usually associated with bold blocks of colour to capture fleeting cloudscapes and the ephemeral nature of light. Steve’s images expertly convey an immersive sense of space combined with a tangible sense of calm. ‘Cutting Light’ gathers together a collection of new and old works inspired by the landscapes of the West Country from the Somerset Levels to the Exe Estuary.