Welcome to Thames Valley Contemporary Textiles group.
We meet four times a year in Bracknell and are open to all with an interest in contemporary textiles -
​whether beginner, intermediate or professional.

Next Meeting: 17th January 2026

Karen Nicol - Mixed Media Textile Artist 

Karen specialises in a variety of embroidery techniques including Irish, Cornelly, Multihead, beading and hand stitch, making complex layered and stitched decorative works.
Discover how being a ‘magpie’ has informed and influenced her, and come and enjoy her fascinating body of work.
Images, clockwise starting top left:
Flora and Fauna South American Style 104 x 107 cm 
Jasper Conran fashion
'Show Your True Stripes'.  130 x 95 cm
Interiors Screen

Meetings: message from Co-ordinator Joanne


The theme for the next TVCT group exhibition is Threads in Time, see the News section for more details.
 
New dates for 2026
We meet at Birch Hill Community Centre.  Below are the dates for the next few meetings:

17th January 2026 - Speaker Karen Nicol - Mixed Media Textile Artist plus a workshop to make a name badge.  Bring your sewing kit and any embellishments you'd like to use to take part, scap fabric, threads, craft vilene and bonda web will be provided.
16th May 2026 - Speaker Sumi Perera - Interdisciplinary Artist​​
19th September 2026 - Speaker Cassie Quinn, Founder and Creative Director of CQ studios. Cassie combines traditional textile techniques with novel biomaterial research within her work.
I look forward to seeing you at the meetings.
We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.  
​Payment - annual membership is £40 (November - September) or visitors can pay £15 per meeting. 
Payment by bank transfer, credit card or cash.  Please email [email protected] for bank details.
Bring not-for-profit items you might want to sell at the 'Been There, Done That' table. 
If you have recent work you would like to show or get advice with, bring it for the 'Gallery' area, we love seeing what you have been working on.
Refreshments will be provided, please bring a packed lunch.

​Best wishes, Joanne,  TVCT Coordinator
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Sandy Snowden: Fourth plinth exhibition piece (detail)

Meetings are varied

Talks, workshops, sharing advice sessions, 'Been there, Done that' table for selling unwanted books, tools or materials, bringing work in progress or finished pieces, collaborating on exhibition projects and more.
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Marion Robertson: Fourth Plinth exhibition piece (detail)

All welcome

All welcome, 12 noon to 4pm. £40 pa and £15 for visitors.  There is an occasional extra worshop fee. Tea, coffee and refreshments included but please bring sandwiches for lunch. Please arrive by 11.45 am for a 12 noon start.
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Mavis Roles: Fourth Plinth exhibition piece.

Venue

Birch Hill Community Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire.
​More information on the venue here. ​