Textile exhibitions

Handcrafted works by Lucienne Day

LUCIENNE DAY, SILK MOSAICS, 1975 – 1993

LUCIENNE DAY
SILK MOSAICS
1975 – 1993

34 Wigmore Street, London W1  
Friday 11 October – Sunday 03 November
 
An exhibition of handcrafted works by Lucienne Day, is being shown at the exclusive Margeret Howell Store, Central London. The first to focus exclusively on Lucienne’s Silk Mosaics since her death in 2010.  
The carefully curated selection from private collections and institutions provides a rare opportunity to examine these stunning but subtle textiles at close quarters, including several complex large-scale works created for public spaces, as well as more intimate jewel-like smaller works.

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LUCIENNE DAY, SILK MOSAICS, 1975 – 1993

Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles

Touring; Coventry, Nottingham, Cheltenham, London

9 October 2024 – May 2026

Freakish psychoanalyst’s office … Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s Dual, 2006–07; Malevolent Coat Hook, 2005; Cluny, 2006. Photograph: © Luke Pickering

Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles illuminates the diverse roles textiles play in artistic practice.

The exhibition brings together artists who take the intimate and domestic quality of textiles and transform them into theatrical, bold, unsettling and humorous artworks that inspire, challenge and offer new ways of thinking.

Featuring work created predominantly over the last decade by 15 UK-based artists, Material Worlds highlights their deep awareness of textiles’ cultural history and a shared desire to challenge its traditional associations, testing the material’s expansive and subversive potential.

The familiar fabric of everyday life is reimagined into the unexpected – the ordinary made extraordinary – to reflect on ideas of gender, identity, community, race, technology, and myth; demonstrating the medium’s potential to transform in the hands of different artists.

Artists featured in the exhibition include Caroline Achaintre, Jonathan Baldock, Phyllida Barlow, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Alexandre da Cunha, Holly Hendry, Tonico Lemos Auad, Paul Maheke, Anna Perach, Yelena Popova, Paloma Proudfoot, Yinka Shonibare, Rae-Yen Song, Tenant of Culture and Zadie Xa.

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