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Inspirational

An article illustrating Stewart’s current practice will feature in Inspirational 8.

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Further information is available at www.inspirational-magazine.blogspot.com.

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This entry was posted in Publications on January 1, 2016 by Stewart Kelly.

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Wednesday reading... Sunday reading... Beautiful and provocative work by @smart_barnett in association with @frie.ndsofdorothy. So much #cloth and #textiles on display @tatecollective. “Textiles are soft. They are comforting. They are clothes, rugs, blankets, and our favourite plushie toys; they are durable, yet malleable, and ultimately ephemeral. Textiles are ‘feminine’, knitted by our grandma and repaired by our mother. Textiles are apocalyptic. They portray war, violence, and the rapture. They’re an itchy old dusty carpet. They are precious artefacts that tell us about our past. They are traces of hands, stitches, rips, and careful folds. A million loops, looping in and around each other, looped carefully by a pair of hands.”  In the 1960s and 70s, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz created radical sculptures from woven fibre. They were soft not hard; ambiguous and organic; towering works that hung from the ceiling and pioneered a new form of installation. They became known as the Abakans.
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