1st - 31st May 2026
This summer, The 62 Group of Textile Artists returns to Sunny Bank Mills with its 2026 exhibition, Touchlines: The Delicate Boundaries of Care and Cloth.
Each year, the group responds to a new brief for their annual exhibition. This year’s theme was developed in collaboration with Anna Turzynski, the Mills’ Arts Director, drawing on the site’s rich industrial and cultural history.
In Touchlines, artists explore the subtle thresholds where contact is felt, withheld, or transformed. Set within the historic spaces of Sunny Bank Mills, the exhibition draws connections between textile labour, sporting cultures, and human relationships, asking how boundaries shape intimacy, care, and collective identity.
Across a range of material-led and process-driven practices, the works foreground acts of repair, preservation, and making. Cloth emerges not simply as a medium, but as a site where emotional and social histories are embedded and reworked.
The exhibition invites viewers to slow down and reflect on the quiet gestures, fragile edges, and resilient connections tracing the points where making meets lived experience.
Opening times: 10am-4pm Thursday to Sunday on the 3rd floor of the 1912 Mill. FREE ENTRY.
OPENING EVENT: Fri 1st May, 6pm-8pm, 3rd floor of the 1912 Mill. BOOK ON THIS LINK.
ACCESS & CONTACT INFORMATION
The exhibition is on the 3rd floor of the 1912 Mill, which is accessed via three flights of stairs or a wheelchair accessible lift.
Free parking, included limited accessible parking is available around the Mill site and on Farsley Town Street. There are accessible toilets on the ground and 2nd floor of the venue.
Assistance dogs are permitted.
This exhibition is being organised and managed by The 62 Group. Please contact their team at [email protected] if you have any questions about the exhibition.
![What a weekend 😅 We would need about an hour to feature everyone who contributed to this year’s huge Threads programme, but here’s a small portion.
Thank you to every stallholder, workshop tutor, mill host and visitor for being part of the Festival, along with our speakers Michele Carragher, Jessie Cutts, Hannah Lamb and the 62 Group artists.
We’d like to give a special mention to @unfolded_pci student collective from @universityofleeds for their incredible contributions. Their site responsive performances and short films gave the Mills’ heritage and workers’ stories a presence throughout the weekend.
Stay tuned for the Me-made Competition entries!
[Reel is a series of short clips of stallholders waving, students performing, talks taking place and other activities across the site of the Mills during Threads.]](https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)