Lot 182
JOY CLUCAS (1931-2006) AND THE 1962 GROUP §
'SUFFOLK BEACH', MACHINE EMBROIDERED APPLIQUÉ PANEL, CIRCA 1970
Auction: 23 February 2017 at 10:00 GMT
Description
depicting a beach scene, applied felt, buttons, beads and embroidery on a silk ground, embroidered signature JOY CLUCAS, original frame
Dimensions
58 x 38.5cm
Footnote
Literature: Victoria and Albert Museum archives, 'V&A collections: Joy Clucas, spheres panel', 2016
University of Leeds, 'An Archive of International Textiles: Joy Clucas', 2015
Note: A pioneer of machine embroidery, Joy Clucas, born in 1931, was a teacher of the National Diploma in Design. She became well known following the publication of her books 'Your Machine for Embroidery' and 'The New Machine Embroidery'. She was a founder member of the '62 Group of Textile Artists', set up in 1962 to promote embroidery and support practitioners. After studying arts and crafts at Southampton, Bromley and Brighton Colleges of Art she taught at a secondary modern school in London. Clucas took up a temporary post at the Crafts Centre of Great Britain and free-lanced until 1956. She won 1st prize in the Embroiderers' Guild open competition in 1961 and throughout her career has had work shown at the Stuttgart International Handicraft Exhibition of 1963 and a later British Crafts Export Group Exhibition in Switzerland. Examples of Clucas's work are held in the V&A collections.