Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles
Free, just drop by!
The Mead Gallery is the first venue for this ambitious group exhibition from Hayward Gallery Touring. It explores how contemporary artists are using textiles in surprising and radical ways.
Curated by artist Caroline Achaintre, the artists in Material Worlds take the everyday, intimate and accessible qualities of textiles to create artworks that are theatrical, bold, unsettling and humorous.
Spanning a wide range of approaches, the artists in the exhibition share a deep awareness of the cultural significance of textiles, alongside a desire to test their potential as a medium for contemporary art.
The familiar, material stuff of everyday life is transformed into the unexpected - the ordinary is made extraordinary - to explore ideas of the body, identity, gender, race, heritage, myth and folklore.
Artists:
Caroline Achaintre, Larry Achiampong, Jonathan Baldock, Phyllida Barlow, Alexandre da Cunha, Holly Hendry, Tonico Lemos Auad, Paul Maheke, Anna Perach, Yelena Popova, Paloma Proudfoot, Yinka Shonibare, Rae-Yen Song, Tenant of Culture and Zadie Xa.
Exhibition Opening Event:
Join us for a wonderful evening on Tue 8 Oct from 6pm - 8pm celebrating the opening of Material Worlds. The evening will include a special performance by multi-award-winning artist Anna Perach at 7pm.
Visual Art Events
Materials and Ideas: Panel Discussion
Please join us for reflection on the works and themes of our exhibition Material Worlds.This conversation includes panellists Holly Hendry (contributing…
BSL Exhibition Tour: Material Worlds
Join artist Olivier Jamin for a deaf-led BSL tour of our Material Worlds exhibition.He'll be offering insight into the artworks from a deaf artist's perspective.Find…
Material Worlds: Artists in Conversation
Material Worlds artist and curator, Caroline Achaintre and artists Paloma Proudfoot and Rae-Yen Song reflect on how they use textiles in making art. The…
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