Contemporary artists exploring the expressive potential of textiles
Curated by Irish artist Nuala Goodman, alongside Maria Luisa Caffarelli, the recent summer exhibition ‘The Fine art of Textile’ at the Coach House Gallery in Dublin comprised contemporary textiles encompassing painting, embroidery, drawing and sculpture.
Milan-based collective ‘Fringe’, founded in 2022 by four female artists from different countries, make up four of the exhibitors: Sanchita Ajjampur re-interprets raffia weave and embroidery; Lisa Farmer‘s art lies between basketry and tapestry; Nuala Goodman uses preloved textiles to create works of art and Colomba Leddi whose synthetic, linear forms create spatial redefinition.
The ten guest exhibitors include Irish milliner Philip Treacy, Sardinian artist Maria Lai and Italian artist and designer Paolo Giordano, who created a hand-knotted woollen tapestry for the exhibition. While the second section of the show is dedicated to the ‘Wild Donegal Tweed’ project, a recent collaboration between five textile mills in Donegal and fashion and textile students in Rome.
Curator Nuala Goodman comments: ‘The last two Venice Biennales have definitively sanctioned textile’s shift from the marginal confines of ‘low art’, in which it was relegated as a homely practice that was mainly the prerogative of women, to a phenomenon that travels to the heart of the art system and market. This was recently confirmed by the extraordinary work of Olga de Amaral exhibited at the Cartier Foundation in Paris and rapturously received.’
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