Kingston-based Stitching and Beyond opened their biennial Out of Hand Exhibition at the Long Gallery in Salamanca, Hobart on Friday, September 26.
In honour of their 20th anniversary this year Stitching and Beyond has taken the exhibition up a notch by inviting North Hobart studio Wild Stitch and the Hobart Embroiderers’ Guild Young Stitchers Group to also contribute.
Stitching and Beyond member Joyce Batchelor said collaborating with these two groups has the aim of encouraging more young people to get involved in textile art.
“It’s for all generations,” Joyce said, pointing out the diversity of artforms on display at the exhibition.
The Out of Hand Exhibition will run out of the Long Gallery until Monday, October 6.
Stitching and Beyond was formed in 2005 and holds classes at the Kingston Learning Centre on Hutchins Street every third Monday of the month.
There is also a northern gathering in Riverside, Launceston.
Northern member Jane Roberts drove down to Hobart to assist the southern-based Stitching and Beyond members set up for the exhibition last week.
