The most real thing: contemporary textiles and sculpture

15 Sep-4 Nov 2018

Overview

The most real thing includes artists who have previously shown at Roche Court alongside those who will be new to the gallery’s audience, including several artists from a studio textile background. Together, their innovations and ideas engage the full spectrum of fibre-based materials and beyond, from processes such as loom weaving, quilting, knitting, stitching and dying; experiments with technology, fabrication and thread; and textiles which have been painted, manufactured, cast and obliterated; incorporated into performance, large scale sculpture, and self-portraiture. The textile component in these works is specific and loaded with intent, crucially serving to introduce, or locate content and together raise questions about the relationship between the functional and non-functional.