Tag: Textiles
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Sagarika Sundaram – interview: ‘When I finish a work, it feels very much like skin’
At her studio in the World Trade Center, as she prepares for a solo show at Alison Jacques Gallery in London later this year, the artist talks about using space, surface and colour in her sculptures
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Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
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Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles
Partners in life and work, they supplied fabrics to Heal’s and Liberty, as well as for the film Ben-Hur and the interior of the Royal Festival Hall, yet Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen are largely forgotten. This show makes clear…
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Andy Warhol: The Textiles
If you thought you knew everything about Warhol’s work, this show may surprise you. The curators have unearthed a selection of vintage garments and fabrics printed with designs that reveal Warhol’s wit and eye for a memorable image
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Ceyda Oskay – interview: ‘I often dislocate and repackage, reworking and unravelling things in new locations’
Oskay talks about her residency at Cork Printmakers in Ireland as part of a project that supports artists who are asylum seekers or refugees, and her work around the theme of migration
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Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles
This fascinating and engaging exhibition puts the idea of female collectors at the heart of a social and cultural history of textiles
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Celia Pym – interview: ‘I didn’t ever see the point of invisible mending’
Describing herself as ‘an artist who works in textiles’ Pym talks about her recent surgery for mending at the V&A, why she mends old clothes and artefacts, and why she feels it is so important to see the damage and…
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Julie Montgarrett: ‘I have always gravitated to the seductive character and movement of cloth and thread’
Australian artist Julie Montgarrett uses her work to explore the continent’s problematic colonial past, employing textiles and stitching to tease out the selective histories and mythologies of settler narratives
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Raqib Shaw
A new show at the Whitworth Manchester combines Raqib Shaw’s paintings and sculptures with prints, textiles and objects that reveal an intense dialogue between the ages and across continents
