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June 10, 2024 In Exhibitions, Textile Art

Daisy Collingridge at Thread Count exhibition

Unknown; Family portrait photographic print and Burt portrait by Daisy Collingridge.

 

 

It’s always a joy to visit textile exhibitions and Thread Count in East Anglia in the UK, is certainly worth a visit. As always there is a wide range of techniques and subject matter, and this exhibition also brings together artists from a range of educational backgrounds. Some are highly trained, others are self taught. Some use textiles exclusively within their practice others, for others it is just one aspect of their portfolio. 

Co-curated by artist and Professor of Textiles at the Royal College of Art Freddie Robins and The Art Station exhibiting artists include Rosie Edwards, Woo Jin Joo, Sophie Giller, Feifan Hu, Daisy Collingridge, Andrew Omoding, Jevan Watkins Jones, Freddie Robins, Peter Collingwood, Rebecca Riess, Mikey Cuddihy, Julie Cockburn, Abigail Lane, Srinivas Surti, Annabel Elgar, John Craske, Emily Cannell and William Wallace.

Part one is held from until 31st July and the second part which includes a new large-scale textile installation by Sophie Giller is on show from 6th until 21st of July.

It is open Wednesday – Sunday 12 – 4pm or by appointment. For more information visit https://theartstation.uk

 

 

May 20, 2024 In Art, Exhibitions, Textile Art

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger exhibition

 

 

Images from top:

If the future is full of death, the past is the only alternative source of inspiration to the traditions and memories of a zombified world, 2023; Open your heart because everything will change, 2023, images courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and Bortolami, New York.

. A code that copies itself, 2020, image courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa, London.  Installation view at Modern Art Oxford, photo by Rob Harris. 

 

If you are near Oxford you have one more week to see Mexican artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Through paint and pre-Columbian embroidery techniques, her work reimagines the future covering themes such as tech billionaires involved in space race, colonial legacies, climate change, hyper-capitalist technologies and systems of control and power.

Her work ‘suggests alternative decolonised, queer futures, in which joy and chaos co-exist together as a means of resistance and critique.’ Heart motifs and verdant plants appear alongside driverless cars and space shuttles and as the exhibition title implies there is hope within the darkness.

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A future in the light of darkness at Modern Art Oxford Exhibition is on until 26 May 2024 at Modern Art Oxford

https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/

May 13, 2024 In Textile Art, Uncategorized

Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz Exhibition

 

Images from Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz: The Cosmic Series at Sapar Contemporary in New York

Images courtesy of Sapar Contemporary and the artist

 

This stunning exhibition  features 16 of Yvonne’s luminous hand-knotted artworks . Born in 1928 Yvonne was an American artist brought up  by her father who was an emigrant from Slovakia and her mother who was from a family of German emigrants. Encouraged to go to art school she attended Cranbrook Academy of Art which pioneered design (Ray and Charles Eames met there.) Yvonne trained with Finnish weaver Marianne Strengell and later in Philadelphia with Anni Albers. Her career covered seven decades and discovering mono filament in the 1980s proved to be a turning point. Her Cosmic Series is a collection of sculptures using knotted and woven monofilament that consider the chaos, randomness and mathematical logic of the universe.

 

“I am concerned with expressing interconnections – interconnectedness and continuum. My work has been combining natural materials with synthetics, relating opposites, randomness and order – dark, light, reflective, opaque, illumination to dematerialization, exploring cosmic energy fields. I have been knotting clear monofilament, a man-made fiber that transmits light, combining it with natural linen, opaque and light absorbent, incorporating gold leaf, reflective and alchemically symbolic – unifying them in a variety of densities, scale, and configurations.”

 

 Yvonne passed away in 2022 and this exhibition is a chance that shouldn’t be missed to see her dynamic textile art.

Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz: The Cosmic Series at Sapar Contemporary at Sapar Contemporary until June 1st

For more information visit https://www.saparcontemporary.com/

April 29, 2024 In Art, Textile Art

Tapestry competition by Australian Tapestry Workshop

 

Images clockwise from top left by Misako Nakahira; Constanza del Pilar Guerrero Morales; Rachel Hine and David Pearce

 

Calling all tapestry weavers. It is time again for The Australian Tapestry Workshop’s bi-annual tapestry competition. Tapestry artists are invited world wide to submit small scale hand-woven tapestries up to 40 x 40 x 3cms. The judges are looking for ‘an expressive use of tapestry through materials, concept, colour and design.’

 

The Kate Derum award is for established weavers and has a prize of $5,000 and the Irene Davies Award is for early career weavers with $1000 prize. More importantly all those shortlisted will be exhibited at The Australian Tapestry Workshop and you can price them if you would like them to be for sale. To enter visit www.austapestry.com.au