Seamless Flow from 02 Textiles. The Courtyard Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Thursday 6th - Tuesday 11th June 2024
Expressionists at Tate Modern. 25 April – 20 October
Akea Brionne textiles
Embrace The Journey: Photos, Fabric & Mixed Media with Wen Redmond
School of Stitched Textiles - Textile talk with Jamie Chalmers
Festival of Quilts 1st - 4th August NEC, Birmingham
Tickets now on sale
Fibre Arts Take Two Feature Artist Stephanie Outridge Field
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art Tue 13 Feb—Sun 26 May 2024, Barbican Centre Art Gallery
Fibre Arts Take Two Friday Feature Artist - Wanda Gillespie
Bridging the Gap by EAST Textile - Grundisburgh HGouse Gallery, Woodbridge Suffolk 24th April to 7th May
Seamless Flow by 02 Textiles - The Courtyard Gallery, The Ballroom Arts, 152a High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffold, IP15 5AQ
Thursday 6th to Tuesday 11th June
Helga Stentzel's clothesline animals
Pauline Caulfield Textiles - Tapestry Balcony, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
8 March – 20 July 2024
Fibre Arts Take Two - Debbie Lyddon
Fibre Arts Take Two Feature Artist - Jo Stealey
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now Art, Colonialism and Change
3 February - 28 April 2024
Main Galleries | Burlington House
J.M.W. Turner and Ellen Gallagher. Joshua Reynolds and Yinka Shonibare. John Singleton Copley and Hew Locke. Past and present collide in one powerful exhibition.
Yoko Ono - Music of the Mind Until 1 September 2024
Tate Modern
Judging a Book by its Cover - Online exhibition by The Grolier Club in New York
Cute - Embankment Galleries, South Wing, Somerset House, London
25 Jan - 14 Apr 2024
A major new exhibition exploring the irresistible force of cuteness in contemporary culture.
The Glass Heart: Art, Industry & Collaboration - Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD
Sat 27 January 2024 - Sun 21 April 2024
EAST Contemporary Textile Exhibition: Bridging the Gap - The Grundisburgh House Gallery, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP13 6UD
25th April - 7th May
Fibre Arts Take Two Friday Feature Artist Zara Muradyan
Zara’s approach to art is deeply personal and reflective. Working primarily with fibre and mixed media, she creates art that captures the rhythmic flow of her thoughts, often materialising as landscapes viewed from her window
Art, Colonialism and Change 3 February - 28 April 2024
Main Galleries, Burlington House
J.M.W. Turner and Ellen Gallagher. Joshua Reynolds and Yinka Shonibare. John Singleton Copley and Hew Locke. Past and present collide in one powerful exhibition.
The Stitch Festival 21st - 24th March
The Business Design Centre, London, N1 0QH, England
Sargent and Fashion - 22 February – 7 July 2024
Tate Britain
The Glass Heart: Art, Industry & Collaboration
27th January 2024 – 21st April 2024 Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD
The exhibition, curated by Antonia Harrison, brings together works from across the UK to celebrate 170 years of glassmaking. Among the contemporary makers are Chris Day, Pinkie Maclure, and Louis Thompson.
Yinka Shonibare
12 April – 1 September at Serpentine South, London
It’s set to be a packed year for Yinka Shonibare, who will be contributing to the Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and showing work in this self-titled solo exhibition at the Serpentine. Expect explorations of cultural identity and post-colonialism through sculptures, quilts, woodcuts and the batik fabric he is best known for. The show will also include installations on the theme of boundaries ‘whether psychological, physical or geographical’.
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
13 February – 26 May 2024 at Barbican Art Gallery, London
Textiles as a form of political resistance is the subject of this major survey at London’s Barbican, comprising over 100 artworks from names such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Igshaan Adams, Feliciano Centurión, Sheila Hicks. Look out for the stark anti-fascist tapestries of Hannah Ryggen, made in the 1960s from wool and foraged materials from her rural Norwegian farm.
Art Without Heroes: Mingei
23 March – 22 September 2024 at William Morris Gallery, London
This large-scale celebration of Mingei (a folk-art movement from 1920s and 30s Japan) will bring 80 works in ceramic, paper, wood and textile to the UK, including kokeshi dolls, kimono and examples of sashiko stitching. The show will also widen the traditional scope of the movement to look at Korean, Okinawan and Ainu objects too, and consider the impact that Mingei has had on makers today.
Forensic Fashion: Investigating Old Clothes from the Rag Trade to the Lab
Burlington House, London
Stories of art: 1500-1600 - Online talks from The National Gallery
Explore the work of key Renaissance artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Holbein, and Dürer with art historian Siân Walters
What is an 'Old Master' painting? From The National Gallery
Talk witlh Allan Brown, creator of the Nettle Dress#
And if you wander further afield:
Craft4Crafters & Stithing 4All Westpoint, Exeter 4th - 6th April
Sodbury Yarn Over! - 6–7 April 2024
Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, BS37 6AD, England
Woolly Good Gathering - 26–27 April 2024
Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL, Scotland
Wonderwool Wales - 27–28 April 2024
Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, Powys, LD2 3SY, Wales