A Closer Look,finished in 2019, seems timely in a year when the first picture of a black hole has just been published and satellites photograph the Earth’s surface in revelatory detail. This theme promised work at least as colourful, varied and quirky as its predecessors. Life would be bland without ‘a closer look’ – at the natural world, at small things writ large, at places familiar and faraway, at geometric shapes in space, even at the very techniques of making marks of cloth. Some artists have been able to steer the group piece close to their original intentions; for others this has proved impossible and the finished quilts have only the starting fabric in common.