How surprising to find so many creative ways of using textiles. One’s sense of self is memory laden; Mair Edwards became conscious of this when her mother lost her memory; taking nine panels she embroidered over her mother’s handwriting, using black thread. Each panel is distressed in a different way to demonstrate the progressive nature of memory loss; in Memory Faded the thread gets paler, another is Memory Unpickd. She also embroidered stories from her mother’s life on a continuous strip of paper which was knitted into a long twisted ribbon. A moving tribute.

For her collage narratives, Jane O’Brien uses printed textiles to create beautiful, delicate pictures inspired by Renaissance portraits: statements of status, wealth and power. The Little Girl (pictured) was a Danish Princess, born into an important Florentine family. Renowned for her beauty, she is dressed in damask, enhanced with silks, pearls and metallic thread, recording a moment in time forever.

Margaret Charlton’s installation represents a science laboratory that displays the glassware, perspex, thread, fabric and paint used for her images of body cells. Her work, based on “the resonances between pattern design and scientific processes” is a creative merging of art and science.

In this series she deconstructs the Liberty pattern ‘Wiltshire’ into pastel colours and threads to suggest cellular growth and evolution.

Inspired by J.M.W. Turner’s watercolours Maggie Harris made a series of lyrical colour studies: framed silk pieces painted with dye. Her stunning calico quilts are also painted in blended blues and yellows. The influence of music is evident in the ripples of her folded wall hanging. Her art is gentle and skilled.

Alison Hird’s unusual Vortex Bowls were suggested to her by water swirling down a plug-hole. Photographs are turned into kaleidoscope shapes using computer applications, then bent into spiral shapes, printed, laminated, cut and manipulated into pleasing shapes and decorated with stitching that result in these attractive basket-like bowls. Until April 29, Tuesday-Saturday 10.30am–4.30pm, Sunday 2-4pm.