Textile in Art

There is a small but fascinating exhibition currently on at the Serpentine Gallery (at the top of Exhibition Road, London – in the park). Yinka Shonibare has taken Dutch wax textiles as his stimulus for decorating statues of well known colonial figures as well as creating some quilts, though to me they are more like examples of textile art. Visit https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/ The exhibition closes on 1 September 2024.

African Bird Magic (Mauritius Fody and Comoro Blue Vanga) 2023.

Further, he has created a bronze image of the fabric itself.

If you can’t get to the exhibition, download the Bloomberg Connects, you can see small images of all the work on display. https://www.bloombergconnects.org/

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