Textiles

“Thread is a remarkably expressive material.”, Anni Albers

Showing 19 textiles exhibitions on now and coming soon in London & the UK.

The Hepworth Wakefield

Mrinalini Mukherjee

Until Nov 1

CeramicsDrawing & Works on PaperTextilesPrintsSculpture

First UK retrospective of Indian modernist sculptor Mukherjee — fibre, bronze, ceramic across 40 years

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Annie Montgomerie: Missies and Nippers

Until Nov 1

Mixed MediaTextilesSculptureContemporary Art

Hand-crafted animal figures caught between childhood and adulthood

Coming Soon

Ikon Gallery

Locations: No11 Arts

Starting Oct 28

FreeMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperTextilesPaintingContemporary Art

Older Birmingham residents map memories of their neighbourhoods in art

Modern Art Oxford

The Shape of What Remains

Until Nov 22

FreeTextilesVideo & Moving ImageInstallationContemporary Art

New work by three recent graduates on overlooked histories and memory

The Whitworth

Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven

Until Jan 3, 2027

TextilesInstallation

Eight artists from Korea, India and UK weave new commissions with 400 years of textile history

4/5 from 2 ratings

"These many hands and hours make Entangled and Woven an exquisitely beautiful exhibition. Every slip of fabric is layered with delicate detail and texture. Fabrics are airy and ethereal one moment, and weighty and dipped in deep indigo the next."

The Guardian

V&A East Museum

The Music is Black: A British Story

Until Jan 10, 2027

PhotographySound ArtTextiles

125 years of Black British music, told through an immersive soundscape

Coming Soon

Lisson Gallery London

Dana Awartani

Starting Nov 19

TextilesContemporary Art

Darning holes in her work as an act of repair against violence

Arnolfini

Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey

Until Feb 7, 2027

FreePhotographyTextilesVideo & Moving ImageInstallationContemporary Art

Four decades of a practice that redefined what photography can be

Whitechapel Gallery

Cecilia Vicuña

Until Feb 14, 2027

PhotographyPerformanceTextilesVideo & Moving ImageInstallationPaintingContemporary ArtCecilia Vicuña

First major UK survey of Vicuña's six-decade practice spanning art and activism

The Whitworth

Performing Trees

Until Apr 4, 2027

Drawing & Works on PaperTextilesPrintsPaintingSculpture

50+ works from the Whitworth collection reimagining trees as active storytellers across art history

Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury

Coming Soon

Tate Britain

Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury

Starting Nov 12

CeramicsTextilesDesignPaintingPost-Impressionism

Bloomsbury’s celebrated duo, with their Charleston studio restaged

Fashion and Textile Museum

Ossie Clark / Celia Birtwell

Until Apr 11, 2027

TextilesDesign

Ossie Clark's rock-and-roll fashion paired with Celia Birtwell's iconic prints

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Hold to this Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection

Until Apr 18, 2027

PhotographyCeramicsTextilesVideo & Moving ImagePaintingSculpture

Unprecedented European showcase of 60+ works by 30+ Indigenous North American artists

4/5 from 1 rating

"After centuries of colonialism and exploitation, there's just so much anger and pain here. This show isn't just about the earth and memory, this is art as a form of aesthetic resistance. It's hard not to see these ideas of stolen land and colonialism through the lens of Trump's regime with its ICE raids and travel bans."

The Guardian

The Manifold of Memory: Detail Within Detail, Bagri Commission

Coming Soon

The Whitworth

The Manifold of Memory: Detail Within Detail, Bagri Commission

Starting Nov 20

TextilesInstallationSculpture

Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova's first UK show — giant felt environment from nomadic Central Asia

British Museum

The Bayeux Tapestry

Until Jul 11, 2027

Textiles

The 70-metre embroidery of 1066, in England for the first time in 1,000 years

5/5 from 5 ratings

"It is, in fact, a terrifically exciting narrative. It shows the pity as well as the brutality of war… and all in sophisticated needlework. Go, if you can."

The Standard