World of Threads Festival
2023-24 Festival, Exhibition Menu
Visit the 2023-24 World of Threads Festival! Exhibitions included our main gallery show Amorphous. We mounted 30 Solo Shows, and 10 Installations. Smaller group shows included Wings, Covid Forever and Cat Walk III.
All Show Curated by Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman
Amorphous
Our major 2018 festival exhibition Flow was inspired by the natural processes and rhythms of the world around us. These elemental works brought to mind swirling rivers, cascading waterfalls and gradual erosion. Some works evoked a universal scale with floating gas and star dust. Others were more grounded and felt like mud slides, bubbling lava, dripping sap, decaying plants and churning debris.
Installations 1
Sun Young Kang created a massive installation by casting in paper, hundreds of vessels from everyday life. She explored themes such as emptiness, the visible and the invisible.
Installations 2
There were four large installation works in Festival 2018. The artists came from Canada, England and Hungary.
Installations 3
There were four large installation works in Festival 2018. The artists came from Canada, England and Hungary.
Solo Shows 1: Quilts
Solo Shows presents outstanding bodies of work by individual artists. Solo Shows was the festival's largest exhibit. This section features the work of 6 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Solo Shows 2: Paper
Solo Shows presents outstanding bodies of work by individual artists. Solo Shows was the festival's largest exhibit. This section features the work of 6 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Solo Shows 3: Collage
Solo Shows presents outstanding bodies of work by individual artists. Solo Shows was the festival's largest exhibit. This section features the work of 9 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Solo Shows 4: Felt and Dye
Solo Shows presents outstanding bodies of work by individual artists. Solo Shows was the festival's largest exhibit. This section features the work of 9 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Solo Shows 5: Weave
Solo Shows presents outstanding bodies of work by individual artists. Solo Shows was the festival's largest exhibit. This section features the work of 9 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Solo Shows 6: Experimental
Solo Shows presents outstanding bodies of work by individual artists. Solo Shows was the festival's largest exhibit. This section features the work of 9 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Covid Forever
The four sculptors in this show used a variety of materials including reeds, wire, rope, paper, cord, sisal, horse hair, wool and different textile fabrics. Some of the techniques employed were weaving coiling, knotting and wrapping.
Wings
Gardens teaming with flowers, birds and butterflies. This exhibition melded abstract and symbolic imagery exploring colourful and textural interpretations of our beautiful botanical world.
Cat Walk III
Clothing and fashion has always provided the most clearly recognized use for fibre and textiles. In this exhibit we showed how seemingly limitless are the opportunities for variation.
