Colette Dobson 2010 Group Touring Exhibition 62 Group Bending the Line the Hub Lincoln Collins Gallery Manchester Museum Rijswijk. rijswijk Netehrlands

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The 62 group exhibitions are part of an international group that investigation into the language of textiles and issues surround history, social and polical issues. The group is selected by a panel of artists all working at international and chaired by Audrey Walker MBE. the work is seen as an important contribution to the Art Textile debate all exhibitions are reviewed in journals covering this field of investigation

Dobsons research considers the development of the Femine Mystique by manufactures and advertisers as dfined by Betty Friedan.
The manipulation of womens desires to beleive through housework and commodities for cleaning they could express their femininity and individuality. Consuming products presented them as the a perfect female. The contemporay development of lifestyle choices has created a market of consumables that exploits the style of Utility and make do and mend. Purchasing such a lifestyle at added value costs is a dichotomy of purpose. The work takes items of domestic purpose, and combines them to render them uselaess. Buckets, soap and dustpans are have bristles inserted into them the combination of two items of purpose deny the function. the Femmine Mystique continues

A catalouge suppoted the exhibition written by Kidd.M Walker .A Millar.L Bending the Line published by the Hub 30 pages 40 colour plates ISBN 978-9548015-4-0
Page 7 was written by Dobson.C

the exhibition was reviewed in
Design Week
Crafts
Selvedge