In this touring exhibition, Creative Dialogues, the Practical Study Group attempts to demonstrate, visually, the real value of creative dialogue. Some record their educational experiences, or the benefits of working alongside an artist who is using a medium which is completely different from textiles. Others show how cultural and geographical boundaries can be crossed and new skills mastered through a variety of friendships. In recent years the technology of email has allowed for communication between artists with great frequency and across impossible distances. Improved printing and photography has also increased the effectiveness of communicating through books and magazines. The Practical Study Group illustrate, in several instances, the use of these new ways of learning.

Each member of the Practical Study Group is exhibiting a piece of their own current work. This is shown alongside that of their collaborators in a number of very different ways. The contexts may be different but they will all illustrate the importance of working together, colleague with colleague, a group with their tutor, artist with friend, mother with daughter. This exhibition hopes to demonstrate how education - in its widest sense - is always a two-way process and that creative dialogue can literally change lives.