New featured artists

        

 

We aren’t gender focused at Textile Curator, but purely by co-incidence this month we are featuring three male textile artists. Aiming to show the diversity of textile art internationally it’s incredible to see the range of creativity from all corners of the globe. American quilter Luke Haynes is based in L.A, Japanese born Takashi Iwasaki lives in Canada and Faig Ahmed lives and works in Azerbaijan.

Luke Haynes is currently working on an incredibly ambitious project ‘The Log cabins of Donald Judd,’ and is producing 50 quilts all 90″ square. The theme is taken from the Donald Judd installation at the Chinati foundation ‘100 untitled works in mill aluminium, 1982 – 1986.’  As he explains, “in learning my trade and the vernacular of quilting I have been practicing block types and learning history of piecing.  The log cabin is arguably the first repeatable quilting block and therefore that is where I started. The reason it’s alluding to Judd is the material and iteration and to suggest that the show is objects in space and sculpture and remove the ‘Quilt’ pre-conception of bed and private and valueless.”

In neighbouring Canada Takashi Iwasaki is continuing his hand embroideries, that are so immaculate at first they appear to have been machine stitched.

Finally, we are thrilled to featured Faig Ahmed, who’s diverse work continues to inspire. It’s fascinating to see his reinterpretation of classic rugs from his native Azerbaijan that he exhibits worldwide.