Glenn Adamson: Rhythm & Rhyme in Textile Art

Glenn Adamson chairs online talk on Wednesday 26th February: Flow States: Rhythm and Rhyme in Textile Art.

This is part of the programme of events at the UK’s West Dean College, of arts, design and conservation, the campus set in and around the former family home of Edward James, visionary patron of the arts.

“I sometimes think of my work as breath,” the great fibre artist Lenore Tawney once said. “Breath is life. Breath moves. It is inspiration and aspiration. In and out.” In this online presentation, writer and curator Glenn Adamson will take his lead from this insight, offering an instinctively arranged history of a half-century of textile art oriented to the theme of rhythm. He will outline correspondences to music, poetry, and dance, looking at artists including Sheila Hicks, Françoise Grossen, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Toshiko Takaezu, Nina Yankowitz, Diedrick Brackens and Indira Allegra.

Book your place for the online talk here

Image: Lenore Tawney photographed by David Attie, 1958