CQ Challenges
Anne Tuck Award Winner
Congratulations to Kay Leech whose quilt Torn by Time was entered into
the 2020 Fragmentation Challenge and selected as a worthy winner.
Congratulations to Kay Leech whose quilt Torn by Time was entered into
the 2020 Fragmentation Challenge and selected as a worthy winner.
Contemporary Quilt Challenges are for members only. The Challenges are issued every 2 years. They are juried and exhibited in touring exhibitions to venues around the country. The Challenge for 2020 can be seen here.
The results of the 2019 Quilter's Guild Challenge, Re-Vision, can be found here:
The 2019 challenge theme was Re-Vision and is still on tour although currently suspended- see below
The results of the 2019 Quilter's Guild Challenge, Re-Vision, can be found here:
The 2019 challenge theme was Re-Vision and is still on tour although currently suspended- see below
CQ Challenges on Tour
Re-Vision
The planned exhibition cycle with ICHF, re-organised as follows
February 2021: ICHF, Manchester
March 2021: Quilt Show, Glasgow
March 2021: ICHF, Birmingham
April 2021: ICHF London
Fragmentation
The current plan for exhibitions is as follows:
20-22 August 2020: West Country Quilt Show, Bristol. CANCELLED
10-19 February 2021: Quilt Fest, Llangollen, N Wales. CANCELLED
27 March - 6 May 2021: The Auld Kirk Museum, Kirkintilloch, Scotland
June 2021: Bangor, Northern Ireland
September 2021 - April 2022: the 'usual cycle of shows' with ICHF
Manchester, early Sept 2021; Exeter, late Sept 2021; Glasgow, March 2022;
Birmingham, March 2022; London, April 2022.
Maggie Pearson
Exhibitions Organiser Contemporary Quilt
The planned exhibition cycle with ICHF, re-organised as follows
February 2021: ICHF, Manchester
March 2021: Quilt Show, Glasgow
March 2021: ICHF, Birmingham
April 2021: ICHF London
Fragmentation
The current plan for exhibitions is as follows:
20-22 August 2020: West Country Quilt Show, Bristol. CANCELLED
10-19 February 2021: Quilt Fest, Llangollen, N Wales. CANCELLED
27 March - 6 May 2021: The Auld Kirk Museum, Kirkintilloch, Scotland
June 2021: Bangor, Northern Ireland
September 2021 - April 2022: the 'usual cycle of shows' with ICHF
Manchester, early Sept 2021; Exeter, late Sept 2021; Glasgow, March 2022;
Birmingham, March 2022; London, April 2022.
Maggie Pearson
Exhibitions Organiser Contemporary Quilt
Past challenge themes:
- Primary colours
- Fissures 2006
- Breakthrough 2008
- Thin Blue Line 2008
- Pictorial Consequences 2011
- CQ@10 (our 10th birthday challenge based on an image of a Cornish tin mine) 2012
- Horizons 2013
- Dislocation 2014
- Elements 2015
- On the Edge 2016
- 'in print' 2018