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Exhibition: Sagarika Sundaram – Alison Jacques Gallery – London

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New York-based Sagarika Sundaram‘s first UK solo exhibition, ‘Release’, will be on view until Saturday, the 13th of December 2025, at the Alison Jacques Gallery in London. Sundaram uses wool fibre and feltmaking techniques to create her large-scale contemporary artworks.

There is an interesting short interview with her in the Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/14/sagarika-sundaram-solo-show-london

And a longer interview with her in Studio International – https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/sagarika-sundaram-interview-end-result-very-much-a-surprise-to-me-alison-jacques-gallery-london

Where: Alison Jacques Gallery, 22 Cork Street, London W1S 3NG, United Kingdom

For more information about the show, visit the gallery website – https://alisonjacques.com/exhibitions/sagarika-sundaram-release

The gallery’s Instagram: @alisonjacquesgallery

The artist’s Instagram: @ohsagarika and website – https://www.sagarikasundaram.com/

Sundaram climbing up onto her enormous work table and walking upon her in-process piece is inspiring to see – https://www.instagram.com/p/DDFZEe1MX3c/

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Of Interest: London Textile Month – September 2025

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London Textile Month is a city-wide festival celebrating cloth, culture, and creativity. Curated by Selvedge magazine, this inaugural edition brings together artists, makers, brands, and institutions for a month of workshops, exhibitions, talks, and open studios – spotlighting textiles.

London Textile Month runs from the 1st–30th of September, 2025.

Here are two wool-related events:

  • As part of London Textile Month, there is a symposium, Interwoven: Wool Across Borders – a one-day event celebrating a decade of Khadi London CIC’s pioneering work in regenerative textiles.

When: Monday, the 22nd of September, 10 AM – 5 PM
Where: Museum Of The Home, 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA

  • On Sunday, the 28th, there will be The Woolmen Sheep Drive & Livery Fair, with sheep crossing the Southwark Bridge – https://sheepdrive.london/

For more information about the various events and activities that are happening, visit Selvedge’s website – https://www.selvedge.org/collections/london-textile-month

Their Instagram @selvedgemagazine

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Exhibition: Textiles – the Art of Mankind – Fashion and Textile Museum – London

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The Fashion & Textile Museum in London has an inspiring exhibition titled ‘Textiles: The Art of Mankind’. This show highlights the rich and enduring connection between textiles, humanity, and the world. Several guild members have attended and spoken highly of the experience!

Where: The Fashion & Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey St, London SE1 3XF, United Kingdom.

Exhibition dates: Now through the 7th of September 2025.

For more information, visit their website – https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitionsdisplays/textiles-the-art-of-mankind/

Their Instagram @fashiontextilemuseum

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Exhibition: Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu – London – Show Closes Saturday

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Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship - photograph of installation in gallery.

We’re sorry for posting this one at the last minute, as it closes on Saturday, but this art exhibition looks inspiring. Online sources are filled with excellent pictures and information if you cannot instantly travel to London in Dr Who’s TARDIS.

The Alison Jacques Gallery presents ‘Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship’, which is a two-person exhibition dedicated to the work and 50-year friendship of Lenore Tawney (1907-2007) and Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011).

According to Tawney’s website, her “career as an artist did not begin in earnest until the age of fifty.”

For more information, see the gallery’s website – https://alisonjacques.com/exhibitions/lenore-tawney-toshiko-takaezua-remarkable-friendship

Lenore Tawney’s website – https://lenoretawney.org/

If you cannot make it to the show, textile artist Kim Winter has an excellent review post with many photographs of the installation in the gallery! https://kimwinter.co.uk/2025/01/09/lenore-tawney-toshiko-takaezu-a-remarkable-friendship

Kim is a former feltmaker, who now focuses on basketry. She has a long-running and informative blog that is worth following.

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Of Interest: Panel Discussion for Wool Month – London – This Friday

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This is a bit late and not local; however, it’s still interesting: The Fashion and Textile Museum in London is having a panel discussion on Wool and Fashion tomorrow morning, Friday, the 18th.

October is Wool Month! – https://www.britishwool.org.uk/what-is-wool-month

“Panellists will share how they use wool in their collections and delve into the benefits and positive impacts of this historic versatile material. Discussions will share what it is like to work with British farms, and how the process of farm to fleece to finished garment works within the fashion industry.”

For more information and to book your ticket, visit their website – https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/museumevents/celebrating-british-wool/


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Of Interest: the Work of Christien Meindertsma

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Via the stimulating Material Matters podcast, we learned about Christien Meindertsma‘s work with wool. She is a Dutch artist/designer who explores creative applications with two local materials: wool and flax. Amazingly, using ‘waste’ wool from sheep raised in the city of Rotterdam, she manages to print three-dimensional forms using cutting-edge technology.

Currently, she has an exhibition, ‘Re-forming Waste,’ at the V&A in London, which runs through Saturday, the 19th of October, 2024.

For more information about her show and to watch a video of some of her fascinating projects, visit this page on the V&A’s website – https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/christien-meindertsma-re-forming-waste

Meindertsma’s website catalogues her many thought-provoking explorations of wool. One of her research projects, Fibre Market, used a Fibersort machine to scan 1000 wool sweaters. The machine revealed differences between the information indicated on the material tags and the actual fibre content. Not unsurprisingly, the actual wool content was less.

Visit her website to see more of her intriguing work – https://christienmeindertsma.com/

Lastly, here’s a link to the interview with her on the Material Matters Podcast – https://materialmatters.design/Christien-Meindertsma


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Exhibition: When Forms Come Alive – London UK

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While this exhibition does not include felt, it looks exciting. ‘When Forms Come Alive’ is a group exhibition showcasing biomorphic-inspired sculpture by over 21 artists spanning the past six decades.

The exhibition runs through the 6th of May.

If you cannot make it to London, UK, a review in the Guardian includes several photographs of the work and links to some artists. – https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/11/when-forms-come-alive-hayward-gallery-london-southbank-review-beyond-form-lines-of-abstraction-1950-70-turner-contemporary-margate

If you ‘do’ Instagram, the Hayward Gallery has quite a bit of information on individual artists – https://www.instagram.com/hayward.gallery/

For more information and tickets, visit the Southbank Centre’s website – https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/when-forms-come-alive


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Exhibition: Unravel – The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art – Barbican Gallery

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Unravel, a significant group exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery features 50 international, intergenerational artists who use textiles to communicate vital ideas about power, resistance, and survival. From intimate hand-crafted pieces to monumental sculptural installations, these works offer narratives of violence, imperialism and exclusion alongside stories of resilience, love and hope.

The exhibition includes the work of several well-known artists, such as Faith Ringgold, Judy Chicago, Tracey Emin, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Louise Bourgeois, and Cecilia Vicuña, alongside less well-known creatives. (Interestingly, Vicuña frequently creates large installations with lengths of narrow wool roving.)

Where: Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

When: The show runs through Sunday, the 26th of May, 2024.

There is a glossary of textile techniques in the short exhibition guide.

To learn more, visit the gallery’s website – https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/unravel-the-power-and-politics-of-textiles-in-art

There is an excellent review, with photographs, of the exhibition over on the Felting and Fiber Studio website – https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2024/03/16/unravel-at-the-barbican-london-uk-a-textile-artists-exhibition/


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Exhibition: The Fabric of Democracy

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Image credit: Peace in our Time Scarf 1938 on loan from the Paul and Karen Rennie Collection © Jonathan Richards.

The exhibition, ‘The Fabric of Democracy’, explores printed propaganda textiles of over two centuries, from the French Revolution to Brexit.

The mechanisation of textile industries from the mid-18th century led to the development of print techniques that could create more detailed imagery on cloth, quicker than before. These increasingly affordable processes ‘democratised’ textile decoration, allowing governments, regimes, and corporations to harness the power of print to communicate, from wartime slogans to revolutionary ideals.

On display will be textiles from countries including Britain, America, Italy, Germany and Austria, ranging from French toile de Jouy to Japanese robes from the Asia-Pacific war. In addition, there are Cultural Revolution-era Chinese fabrics which have rarely been exhibited in the UK.

The show is at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, UK and runs until the 3rd of March, 2023.

For more information, visit their website – https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitions/the-fabric-of-democracy

Additionally, the Museum has streamings of previous lectures and presentations via their website – https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/whats-on/on-demand

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Event: Online Curator Talk On The Fabric of Democracy

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This illustrated online talk with design historian Amber Butchart will discuss the themes, ideas, and development behind the exhibition, ‘The Fabric of Democracy,’ now showing at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.

Date: 2nd of November, from 18:30 – 19:30.

To book tickets, visit their website – https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/events/online-talks/curator-talk-the-fabric-of-democracy

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