I'm delighted to share with you my latest curation project, A Darker Thread, which opens at Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen on the 15th July at 2pm. You are warmly invited to join us when the exhibition will be opened by the noted artist and academic Angela Maddock.
About the exhibition:
A Darker Thread
Wales has a much celebrated tradition of creating both
utilitarian and decorative textiles of distinctive design. From power-loomed blankets to hand stitched
quilts, textiles are a key part of Welsh visual culture and history.
Whilst ‘A Darker Thread’ takes this heritage as its starting
point, twelve contemporary artists, designers and makers have been invited to
exhibit work which subverts these expectations.
Exhibitors have been selected for their focus on the
curious, the provocative, the humorous, or the unpredictable. Some work might still
feel comfortably familiar through its materiality or typically ‘Welsh’ colour
palette of black, ecru and red; much hopefully, does not.
The work all consciously or subconsciously references and questions
Welsh culture or sense of place: its language, folk tales, music, landscape,
industrial past or contemporary subcultures. A variety of making processes are
exemplified, but all make use of thread in some form.
Exhibitors: Alana Tyson, EleriMills, Indre Eujenija Dunn, Jayne Pierson in collaboration with Neale Howells,
Laura Thomas, Llio James, Philippa Lawrence, Rhiannon Williams, RozanneHawksley, Ruth Harries, Sally-Ann Parker and Spike Dennis.
To compliment the exhibition, the gallery shop featured maker is Stephen Hughes who is showcasing his new collection of luxurious digitally printed scarves.
There is also a rich programme of events running alongside the exhibition, which you can see detailed below:
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