EDGE TEXTILE ARTISTS SCOTLAND

edge textile artists Scotland is a group dedicated to promoting excellence in contemporary textile art in Scotland... Work by Susan McEwan In 1988 the three leading textile art groups in Scotland shared a platform to exhibit work in a highly successful exhibition entitled ‘Three Strands'. After several other individual exhibitions, this arrangement was formalised when edge - textile artists scotland was formed in 1999 with the merger of those three textile art groups - Embryo, ‘One,6,7' and SETA. The original groups, although coming from different parts of Scotland shared a common higher educational base in the Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh art schools where observed drawing was the foundation of the creative process. Now the membership is from a much broader background although everyone has followed some formal recognised education in textiles.