Textiles

Sheila Hicks’ thrilling textiles are the antidote to our modern world

Ask a dozen different visitors at artist Sheila Hicks’ current Tel Aviv exhibition what they see in her monumental installation Saffron Sentinel (2017) and you can expect to receive nearly twice as many answers in return. One might see a...

Art / 25 Oct 2018

Berlinde De Bruyckere layers decay with intrigue in new sculptural works

A solo exhibition by Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere reveals two new bodies of sculptural work, which dominate the Rhoades and Bourgeois galleries of Hauser & Wirth Somerset. ‘Stages and Tales’ marks a new trajectory for the artist, who has...

Design / 18 Oct 2018

Margrethe Odgaard on her new re-used wool fabric for Kvadrat

Following on from the end-of-life fabric recycling initiative first established by Max Lamb, Really and Kvadrat in 2017; alongside the second iteration of Kvadrat’s ‘Circular by Design’ project at Salone del Mobile earlier this year, the Danish textile brand will...

Art / 14 Oct 2018

Contemporary artists find a common thread with 1970s and 1980s Belgian textile art

‘Women artists’, says Elisa De Wyngaert with a sense for understatement, ‘have not had a very privileged position in the art world.’ What with textiles having female, domestic and quotidian connotations, much of the art form has been undervalued...

Lifestyle / 21 Jun 2018

Benjamin Hubert designs World Cup wearable technology for aspiring footballers

Capitalising on World Cup fever, Benjamin Hubert of LAYER studio has made his first foray into football technology, with the world’s first consumer elite fitness tracking wearable. Designed in collaboration with Catapult (global leader in professional performance analytics), the PLAYR...

Art / 12 Jun 2018

Chiharu Shiota weaves past, present and future at an 18th-century Yorkshire chapel

When she was nine, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota saw the burnt-out, soundless remains of her neighbour’s piano after a house fire. The image stayed with her. Now, it has inspired a haunting new work, rendered in her preferred medium, webs...

Design / 16 Apr 2018

Craft masters convene at Salone del Mobile for the third edition of Doppia Firma

Housed at the elegant, privately owned 1930s Villa Mozart in Milan’s historic centre is the third edition of Doppia Firma – a dialogue between design and artisanal excellence – the exhibition which partners 13 international designers with Italian master artisans...

Design / 16 Apr 2018

An exclusive look at Loewe’s celebration of craftsmanship at Salone del Mobile 2018

Blankets have the power to protect and envelop, and for Loewe’s latest exhibition at Salone del Mobile 2018, the Madrid-based label is showcasing an exhibition dedicated to the intricate and innovative craftsmanship behind these swathing designs. Craft is a concept...

Dusseldorf brasserie Lido, designed by artist Rosemarie Trockel

Lifestyle / 15 Mar 2018

Rosemarie Trockel serves art at a newly refurbished Düsseldorf brasserie

‘I don’t believe in cooking as an art form,’ admits German artist Rosemarie Trockel, famous for her machine-knitted works. ‘I have never cooked anything in my entire life, and neither have I personally knitted anything,’ she admits. But...

Lifestyle / 15 Feb 2018

Ace Hotel and Block Shop unveil capsule collection at Modernism Week

Textile company Block Shop – creator of the beloved Commune Wall mural at Ace Hotel in Palm Springs – has created a print-tastic capsule collection to ring in Modernism Week. Founders (and sisters) Lily and Hopie Stockman have been Ace...

Art / 22 Jan 2018

Grayson Perry on becoming a national treasure, Trump, and how everything means nothing

Home to tycoons, tennis stars, and the Swarovski’s winter residence, a 412-acre luxury estate in south Florida is not the first place you’d expect to find Grayson Perry’s transvestite alter-ego Clare gallivanting in a golf buggy. Nonetheless, she (and he) arrived this weekend...

Art / 2 Jan 2018

NGV’s new blockbuster Triennial brings together over 100 artists and designers

Recognising the dissolution of boundaries between artistic and commercial design practices, the inaugural Triennial at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) surveys the work of over 100 participants from 32 countries. Beyond its tactile, interactive and technologically impressive veneer lies...