CQ Challenges

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

CQ Challenges on Tour
"in print"
The rescheduled ICHF shows in Birmingham and London have now been cancelled, so the "in print" exhibition is over. ICHF will return the quilts when they can get into their offices. 

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. ​If the show goes ahead. No details are available at the moment! 
10-19 February 2021: Quilt Fest, Llangollen, N Wales.
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:
Books     
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  • CQ@10 (which also includes the history of the group and images from all the past collections and years of Journal Quilts) 
  • Elements
  • On the Edge
  • "in print"
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