Web Gallery
Over the years I have received requests on at least a weekly basis
for information about the artists I have worked with. Whilst
I am happy to give this information, or pass details on, I realise
that the dissemination is totally dependent on me and my availability.
There is a resource here that, simply because the artists and
information are spread across various projects, has not been
developed. Therefore I have decided to bring all together as
an online gallery, which will serve as a world wide promotional
tool with all contacts automatically directed straight to the
artist.
The artists I have worked with form a very
particular focus and don’t represent all areas of textile practice, however this
can be used positively to create an identity, an affirmative platform
on which to build, and eventually I would hope to invite applications
for selection and inclusion, plus a section devoted to up and coming
practitioners.
The Gallery will be launched in early summer
2010 and will contain some terrific work – so keep an eye out!
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| Jeanette Appleton |
Miniature Textiles
In 2011 it will be 10 years since the exhibition
Textural Space was shown in this country and 15 years since the
exhibition Revelation was shown. In celebration of this long lasting
and continuously developing relationship between textile artists
in the UK and Japan, I am organising an exhibition of Miniature
Textiles by all the artists from these two countries who have taken
part in the various exchange projects over the 15 years. The exhibition
will open at The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation in London in September
2011 and run until December 2011. It will then travel and be shown
in Japan. This is a wonderful and unique opportunity to see
the works of all these remarkable artists and designers together – and
what a reunion party it will be!
Transparent Boundaries
‘If space has boundaries, is there another space outside those boundaries?’ (Tschumi
1990)
Transparent Boundaries will be the next major, large scale exhibition.
It will explore and develop the relationship between the magical,
symbolic spaces associated with darkness, and the abstract, multidimensional
spaces affiliated to emptiness. The work will be created by an
international grouping of artists, designers, and architects, referencing the ‘projection
of lace on space’ (Araujo 2005).
The exhibition will open in the Gas Hall at
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in November 2011 and run until
March 2012 followed by a tour. There will be a fully illustrated
catalogue accompanying the exhibition.
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| Elena Manferdini |
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