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This September, The Women’s Art Collection opens a new exhibition: The Sleepers. Exploring the politics of rest, the collection brings together a century of works across a variety of mediums: paintings, prints and textiles. At the heart of the exhibition is a collaborative quilt, created with women from the Cambridge Women’s Resource Centre and artist Cait Moreton-Lisle, which stitches together themes of rest, resistance, and care. Below, we go behind the scenes of quiltmaking with assistant curator Laura Moseley (who also champions craft as the founder of Common Threads Press) to talk about how the quilt is both a physical symbol of comfort and a platform for collective creativity…
… Behind the Scenes: The Sleepers Quilt
This summer, Delaine Le Bas took over the vast main gallery of Glasgow’s Tramway to create an immersive, richly textured world where multiple voices and visions collide. A space of protest, peace, pain, and communion, Le Bas’ Delainia: 17071965, Unfolding challenges the narratives that underpin our society and culture, confronting viewers with questions about their own complicity in power and prejudice that oppress marginalised communities. A slogan scrawled on the gallery wall warns ‘Beware Linguistic Engineering’, a sentiment that echoes through the exhibition, as Le Bas interrogates myths, stereotypes, and the exclusionary nature of the word.
… 🪡 Unfolding, Unpicking, Repairing: an Interview with Delaine Le Bas
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The relationship between text and textiles is writ large at this perfectly crafted exhibition…
… Interview: ‘Poets in Vogue’ with Sarah Parker and Sophie Oliver
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