Nicola Moody: Weaving Relations

3 Jul-6 Sep 2024

Overview

An exhibition exploring the relationship between a line, a thread and the weaving process

UH Arts + Culture are delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Nicola Moody, created over the course of her postgraduate studies.

The artist has examined the relationship between a line of thread and the weaving process. Using anthropologist Tim Ingold’s ideas, Nicola Moody explores how lines interact together within weaving.

Through the creation of ‘samples’ – a nod to the textile tradition of making small pieces to explore technique, colour, weave structure and texture – Moody generates an understanding of the behaviour of the lines. She looks at how factors such as weave, tension, and ply (thickness) of the yarn influence the line and the weave.

Central to Moody’s research is Tim Ingold’s concept of lines. He believes that life is lived on lines – that all life is growing and existing on a trajectory. These lines do not live in isolation but coexist with other lines creating a meshwork – a weave. Moody uses her weaving practice to explore what fresh insights it can offer to an understanding of life in Ingold’s meshwork.

In summer 2024, the Art + Design Gallery will be taken over by the artist’s samples and large textile works which explore this relationship, and present weaving as the ongoing interplay of interconnected lines rather than as a static woven object or a process.