Category Archives: Exhibitions

Textiles at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024

I wrote last year (here) about the welcome inclusion of Textiles in the RA Summer exhibition. I visited the 2024 exhibition recently and was interested to see which artworks made of textiles made the cut this time. The portrait below by Blair Cahill caught my eye, as a two-person portrait by this artist was oneContinueContinue reading “Textiles at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024”

‘Threads through Creation’ exhibition

‘Threads Through Creation’ is a body of work by textile artist Jaqui Parkinson. It comprises a series of very large textile pieces which are appliquéd and embroidered and which explore the themes of the Creation story in the Bible. This is an extensive artwork which took three years to make. All the pieces are displayedContinueContinue reading “‘Threads through Creation’ exhibition”