Thread Bearing Witness
Thread Bearing Witness
Tuesday 19 February 2019
Thread Bearing Witness
Thread Bearing Witness
Tuesday 19 February 2019
Textile Exhibition by artist Alice Kettle with artists Aida Foroutan and Ekua Bayunu who will be coming and also talking about their involvement in the project.
From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary events to become enduring material chronicles. Thread Bearing Witness is a major new series of large textiles, and other works, shown at the Whitworth, that considers cultural heritage, refugee displacement and movement, while engaging with individual migrants and their creativity within the wider context of the global refugee crisis.
Alice Kettle is a highly regarded contemporary artist focused upon stitched textiles, a powerful medium through which to explore these themes. Thread Bearing Witness represents displacement though the migration of stitches, using the three strands of artistic representation, participation and creative resilience, testing ways of belonging within a cultural space, and using textile as a medium of integration, collective expression and resilience to displacement.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Time: 2.00 – 3.00pm
Venue: Gallery 13 (Sculpture Gallery), the Whitworth, Mezzanine floor
Cost: £10
Book places on-line via the website.
For postal bookings please send s.a.e. or email address
Textile Exhibition by artist Alice Kettle with artists Aida Foroutan and Ekua Bayunu who will be coming and also talking about their involvement in the project.
From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary events to become enduring material chronicles. Thread Bearing Witness is a major new series of large textiles, and other works, shown at the Whitworth, that considers cultural heritage, refugee displacement and movement, while engaging with individual migrants and their creativity within the wider context of the global refugee crisis.
Alice Kettle is a highly regarded contemporary artist focused upon stitched textiles, a powerful medium through which to explore these themes. Thread Bearing Witness represents displacement though the migration of stitches, using the three strands of artistic representation, participation and creative resilience, testing ways of belonging within a cultural space, and using textile as a medium of integration, collective expression and resilience to displacement.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Time: 2.00 – 3.00pm
Venue: Gallery 13 (Sculpture Gallery), the Whitworth, Mezzanine floor
Cost: £10
Book places on-line via the website.
For postal bookings please send s.a.e. or email address
EVENT DATE
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
COST
£10.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Max. places: 24
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