Tag: Tapestry

  • Kiki Smith – interview: ‘Artists are always trying to reveal themselves and remain hidden at the same time’

    Known for her tapestries, body parts and folkloric motifs, Kiki Smith talks about meaning, process, and why it’s important that a work should have enough in it to take care of itself

  • Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song

    Weavers translated a triptych watercolour painting by Ofili into a tapestry, and this exhibition gives visitors the chance to see this amazing work and learn about the fascinating backstory of its conception and making

  • Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud

    This show, about the imprints of the human body, and which includes three new commissions – two tapestries and one of his ‘dust cloud’ installations – is conversely light and celestial

  • Anna Ray: Fibre and Form

    This joyous explosion of colour, pattern and entangled loops of fabric leaps off the white walls of the gallery, banishing all thoughts of doom and gloom, and embodying the power and energy of art as a healing form

  • Tapestry: Changing Concepts

    If you still think of tapestry as a traditional craft, the range of subjects and techniques in the works in this group exhibition make clear that it is equal to any other fine art

  • Her Dark Materials

    As the inaugural exhibition on the new art collectors’ digital platform, Eye of the Huntress, Her Dark Materials, featuring works by 27 international female artists, set in a virtual rendering of the former Wolverton Railway Works, is a splendid success…

  • Magical Unicorns

    Throughout history, unicorns have borne the power of intrigue and attraction, and this brief chronology, centring on the Musée de Cluny’s six medieval tapestries, The Lady and the Unicorn, showcases some of the highlights of artistic response

  • Susan Cianciolo: ‘Everything I make is so sacred and it’s all about the process of making’

    The artist talks about the Fluxus boxes in her latest exhibition, opening a textile store in Mississippi, and her early years in fashion design