Cloth & Culture NOW

Cloth & Culture NOW investigates the links between contemporary textile practice, strong traditional practice and overlapping global influences, offering a framework for the study of contemporary textile practice within a cultural specific, trans-national and cross-cultural context.

Cloth & Culture NOW brings together, for the first time, contemporary textile works from Estonia, Finland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, and the UK. which most clearly exemplify:

• Contemporary textile practice as an expression of cultural identity

• Contemporary textile practice that has emerged from traditional practice

• Cross-cultural/trans-national interface in contemporary textile practice that has emerged from traditional practice.

35 artists have been selected as Case Studies for the book and to take part in the exhibition.

Exchange and collaboration has been the heart of previous projects, and this theme continues to be central to ‘Cloth & Culture NOW’. All participating artists and institutions will collaborate on different levels of exchange. The University College for the Creative Arts and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts have been working together on the project from the beginning, towards the final exhibition: Cloth & Culture NOW. For further details about the artists, exhibition and book, please follow the links at the top of the page

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

ESTONIA
Mare Kelpman
Krista Leesi
Katrin Pere
Aune Taamal
Kadri Viires

FINLAND
Helena Hietanen
Agneta Hobin
Outi Martikainen
Silja Puranen
Kristiina Wiherheimo
Merja Winqvist

JAPAN
Masae Bamba
Hideaki Kizaki
Jun Mitsuhashi
Shoko Nomura
Masaaki Tate
Mitsuo Toyazaki

LATVIA
Zane Berzina
Ieva Krumina
Uuna Laukmane
Lija Rage
Peteris Sidars
Dzintra Vilks

LITHUANIA
Egle Bogdaniene
Sevirija Incirauskaite Kriauneviciene
Lina Jonike
Auste Jurgelionyte
Laima Orzekauskiene
Laura Pavilonyte

UK
Michael Brennand-Wood
Maxine Bristow
Shelly Goldsmith
Diana Harrison
Sue Lawty
Freddie Robins