Textiles

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

Explore 8 textiles exhibitions on now and 4 coming soon in London & the UK.

Out of Many: The Diverse Artists Network Exhibition

Until Jul 26

Textiles

18 artists explore diaspora, belonging, and cultural memory across diverse mediums.

LR Vandy: Rise

Until Sep 13

Textiles

Rope, maypoles and resistance — Vandy's first solo museum show explores trade and power

Jonathan Baldock: Held

Until Sep 27

Textiles

Immersive ceramics, textiles and sound exploring folklore, nature and human connection.

"This is such an unsettling, threatening exhibition, helped no end by the weird ambient soundtrack, which makes you feel like you're about to be pounced on by some mythical beast in a deep dark forest. There's a sense here of ancient rites seen through the lens of 1960s hippy love, and churned through the mill of millennial malaise. It's as if the Wicker Man wasn't set on an island off the coast of north-west Scotland, but in early 2000s semi-rural Kent."

Source:The Guardian

Nicola Turner: Time's Scythe

Until Sep 27

Textiles

Wool and horsehair tendrils cascade through YSP's 18th-century Chapel

NIGO: From Japan with Love

Until Oct 4

Textiles

First UK retrospective of NIGO — streetwear pioneer, KENZO director and cultural polymath

Mrinalini Mukherjee

Until Nov 1

Textiles

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

Coming Soon

Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven

Starting Jul 10

Textiles

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

Performing Trees

Until Apr 4, 2027

Textiles

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

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

Until Apr 18, 2027

Textiles

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

"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."

Source:The Guardian