Tag: Textile Exhibitions

Exhibition: Group Exhibition at Signal Arts Centre

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The 04 Textile Group is a collective of eight textile artists based in Dublin and
Wicklow, who have been exhibiting together since 2004.

Members work in a variety of contemporary and traditional textile forms, using a range of techniques and a broad mix of materials. They are passionate about the potential and wonder of working with textiles and are delighted to have the opportunity to share their work at Signal Arts Centre in Bray.

This current exhibition, ’04 – 24 Lasting Impressions,’ is a retrospective glance at some of the work previously exhibited over the last two decades. It will also include work created specifically for this exhibition.

04 Textile Group Members:

  • Jane Enticknap
  • Tess Flynn
  • Anne Jeffares
  • Brid McCabe
  • Deirdre Moriarty
  • Sidella O’Brien
  • Mary O’Reilly
  • Colleen Prendiville
  • Sheelagh Rooney

Opening Reception: Thursday 18th April, 7pm to 9pm

Gallery Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday: 10am -1pm/2pm – 5pm
Saturday/Sunday: 10am – 5pm

The show runs through the 28th of April.

For more information, visit the gallery’s website – https://signalartscentre.ie/exhibitions/04-textile-group-04-24-lasting-impressions/

The piece featured is by Sheelagh Rooney.


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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: Iris van Herpen Show in Paris

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Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris pays tribute to Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, who is today recognized as one of the most avant-garde figures of her generation. Conceived as a truly immersive and sensory exploration into the designer’s universe, this retrospective, fusing fashion, contemporary art, design and science, is structured around eight themes that identify her work’s essence.

The exhibition runs to the 28th of April 2024.

While the museum does not have many images of her work online, there are lots in this Vogue article – https://www.vogue.com/article/iris-van-herpen-musee-des-arts-decoratifs

This New York Times article is also interesting – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/style/iris-van-herpen-sculpting-the-senses-couture.html

 
For more information about the exhibition, visit the museum’s website – https://billetterie.madparis.fr/activite/2686/

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Exhibition: Liberties Weavers at Pallas Projects Studios

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Members of The Liberties Weavers will have an art exhibit at the Pallas Projects Studios.

The exhibition is centred around the revered figure of Brigid, the Celtic goddess of fire, wisdom, and creativity. Through intricate weaving techniques and vibrant colours, the exhibition brings to life the essence of Brigid, capturing her multifaceted nature and enduring symbolism.

Feltmakers Ireland members Deirdre Crofts and Sandra Chase have pieces in the group exhibition.

The opening night is on Thursday, the 1st of February, from 5 to 8pm.

​The exhibition continues through Friday, the 2nd of February, from 12 to 6 pm.

Where: Pallas Projects Gallery, 115-117, The Coombe, The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland.

For more information, visit the Liberties Weavers’ website – https://www.thelibertiesweavers.ie/events

The above exhibition is part of city-wide celebrations, which run from Thursday, the 1st, through Bank Holiday Monday, the 5th of February, 2024.

To see over 50 activities that are scheduled as part of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women, visit this website – https://dublin.ie/whats-on/brigit/

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Exhibition: Four St Brigid’s Cloaks – Kildare

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Open viewing of four St Brigid’s Cloaks unveiled in St Brigid’s Cathedral, in conjunction with the Brigid 1500 celebrations across the county.

St Brigid’s Cloaks is a community artwork developed by Wool in School, in association with Creative Ireland and Kildare County Council. These four stunning St Brigid’s Cloaks were crafted with an all-encompassing approach to wool heritage and art.

This project, managed by Director Lorna McCormack and lead Artist Michelle Hickey Legge, focused on using locally sourced Irish-grown wool and sustainable resources aligning with the ethos of Wool in School and several of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

This contemporary manifestation of St Brigid’s cloak highlights the value of knitting as a creative past-time which is beneficial for the health and well-being of everyone living in Ireland’s community and will create a beautiful backdrop to the celebrations and commemoration of the legacy of St Brigid at St Brigid’s Cathedral in Kildare Town in 2024.

When: the 27th of January, 2024, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

Where: St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare.

There is additional information in this news article – https://kildare-nationalist.ie/2024/01/23/kildare-artwork-st-brigids-cloaks/

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Exhibition: Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction-Los Angeles

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The exhibition, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, asks how, when, and why abstract art has intersected with woven textiles over the past century. With over 150 works by an international roster of artists, Woven Histories reveals how shifting relations among abstract art, fashion, design, and craft shaped recurrent aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political forces.

The exhibition runs until the 21st of January, 2024, and is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, USA.

There is a short video of the show here – https://youtu.be/vqQJuh76uV0?si=XQh7Z3jUJhBIZ2pe

For more information, visit their website – https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/woven-histories-textiles-and-modern-abstraction

Exhibition: World of Threads Festival

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The World of Threads Festival near Toronto, Canada, features 426 artworks by 115 artists from the following countries: Canada, England, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, Uruguay, USA, US Virgin Islands, and Wales.

The show has Synchronistic Curating. This means that each new festival is a blank slate. Shows develop entirely out of the submissions received. This year’s Festival includes multiple exhibitions, including several solo exhibitions, installations, wearables, Covid-inspired art, and more.

The Festival runs until the 17th of December. UPDATE: The Festival has been extended to the 14th of January.

There are photograph-filled interviews with the artists – https://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/artist_interviews_menu.html

For more information, visit their website – https://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/

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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Exhibition: Dorothy Liebes at Cooper Hewitt NYC

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If you are going to NYC, then stop by the wonderful Cooper Hewitt Museum and see the exhibition devoted to textile designer Dorothy Liebes.

American textile designer, weaver, and colour authority Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) profoundly influenced design fields, helping to shape American tastes in areas from interiors and transportation to industrial design, fashion, and film. The “Liebes Look”—which combined vivid colour, lush texture, and often a metallic glint- became inextricably linked with the modern American aesthetic.

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Liebes collaborated with some of the most prominent architects and designers of the time, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Dreyfuss, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy, and Samuel Marx. Fashion designers, including Pauline Trigère, Adrian, and Bonnie Cashin, also used her fabrics, yielding some of the most distinctively American fashions of the mid-20th century.

If you cannot travel, the website has an extensive virtual exhibition.

The show runs through the 4th of February, 2024.

For more information, visit the Cooper Hewitt Museum’s website – https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/dorothy-liebes/

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Of Interest: Gallery with a focus on Textile Art – browngrotta arts

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Screenshot of @browngrottaarts Instagram page.

browngrotta arts is a leading contemporary art gallery specializing in international art textiles, fibre sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media.

Representing many of the artists who have helped define modern fibre art since the 1950s, the gallery reflects the aesthetic and advocacy of its co-curators, husband-and-wife team, Tom Grotta and Rhonda Brown. Museum-quality artworks by more than 100 artists from 25 countries are represented through gallery exhibitions, art fairs, co-partnerships with museums and retail spaces, and an online gallery.

To be inspired and for more information, visit their website – https://browngrotta.com/

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