7 EXHIBITIONS TO VISIT THIS AUTUMN
Laura Thomas WOVEN/UNWOVEN at Ruthin Crafts Centre, 30 Sept 2023 - 7 Jan 2024
This exhibition marks Laura’s return to cloth, alongside presenting some glass and resin works. The artworks were created intuitively and are intended to present a quiet, visual meditation against the chaos and uncertainty of recent times.
PAD LONDON 11-15th October, London
Founded in 2007 by fourth-generation Parisian antique dealer Patrick Perrin, PAD London is the only fair in the UK exclusively dedicated to 20th-century and contemporary Design. The week-long event takes place every October on Berkeley Square, in the heart of London’s affluent Mayfair district.
British Ceramics Biennal, Stoke-on-Trent, 23 Sept - 5th Nov 2023
Initiated in 2009, the BCB festival has grown to be the single largest contemporary ceramics event in the UK. We present artworks from the UK’s leading ceramicists alongside work by international artists, in exhibitions and special events held across the city every two years.
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Victoria Baths, Manchester Thu, 19 Oct – Sun, 22 Oct 2023
Fragments of our Time, part of the British textile Biennal, Rossendale, 29 Sept - 29 Oct 2023
This exhibition presents contemporary textile artworks by 17 South Asian artists and artisans from the UK, USA, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh whose concepts and materials relate to the environment, economies or societies and are displayed throughout the house, itself built for a textile mill owner at the height of Britain’s colonial expansion in India.
Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles, Ditchling Museum of Art + Crafts, Sat 16 September 2023 - Sun 14 April 2024
Bourne and Allen were two of the most significant textile designers of the modernist period, yet they remain largely unknown – until now. Double Weave gives space to their story. It speaks to the invisibility of women as leading modernist designers and how women’s intimacy informs creative pursuits.
Drawn to Light, Ditchling Museum of Art + Crafts, until Sun 14 April 2024
Drawn to the Light (نور) is a new textile-based commission by Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings MBE. The installation accompanies the exhibition Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles. Lanterns and pathways of personal symbols will lead visitors into Mudawi-Rowling’s installation, which explores the artist’s intersectional experience as a deaf African Arab with Sudanese heritage. The installation will feature textiles coloured with natural dyes using techniques pioneered by Bourne and Allen.
