Textiles

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

Showing 16 textiles exhibitions on now and coming soon in London & the UK.

Saatchi Gallery

Materiality

Until Sep 12

FreeSculptureInstallationMixed MediaTextilesContemporary Art

Contemporary artists turn materiality itself into the subject of their work

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

LR Vandy: Rise

Until Sep 13

SculptureInstallationTextiles

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

Fashion and Textile Museum

Paint! Pattern! Print! The Textiles of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell

Until Sep 13

TextilesDesign

Fifty years of Collier Campbell's pioneering painterly textile design

Arnolfini

Jonathan Baldock: Held

Until Sep 27

InstallationTextilesCeramicsContemporary Art

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

5/5 from 1 rating

"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."

The Guardian

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Nicola Turner: Time's Scythe

Until Sep 27

InstallationSculptureTextiles

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

Coming Soon

Thaddaeus Ropac London

Like Music in the Blood

Starting Sep 3

PaintingSculptureInstallationMixed MediaTextilesContemporary Art

Eight artists explore the body through omission, displacement and abstraction

Design Museum

NIGO: From Japan with Love

Until Oct 4

TextilesCeramicsDesign

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

The Hepworth Wakefield

Mrinalini Mukherjee

Until Nov 1

SculptureTextilesCeramicsDrawing & Works on PaperPrints

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

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

Coming Soon

Whitechapel Gallery

Cecilia Vicuña

Starting Oct 7

PaintingPhotographyVideo & Moving ImageInstallationTextilesPerformanceContemporary ArtCecilia Vicuña

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

The Whitworth

Performing Trees

Until Apr 4, 2027

PaintingSculptureTextilesDrawing & Works on PaperPrints

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

Coming Soon

Fashion and Textile Museum

Ossie Clark / Celia Birtwell

Starting Oct 2

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

SculptureTextilesCeramicsPhotographyVideo & Moving ImagePainting

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