Stitch in Time: The Fabric of Contemporary Life, 2015
Installation views of the group exhibition Stitch in Time at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2015, curated by Fiona Kearney and Chris Clarke. Works in the exhibition: Untitled (Crystal Cabinet No.4), 2012, carpet, wood, 297 x 308 x 6cm and Untitled (Crystal Cabinet No.5), 2012, wall hanging with banisters and dress, 110 x 275cm. Artists in the exhibition: Anni Albers, Sarah Browne, Jeremy Deller, Sissi Farassat, Angela Fulcher, Grayson Perry, and Slavs and Tatars. Photo credit: Jed Niezgoda, Tomas Tyner.
From protest banners to embroidered passports, abstract fabric designs to narrative tapestries, Stitch in Time demonstrates how artists employ textiles and its associations of a popular, vernacular culture to shape and comment on contemporary life.
