BOOK FESTIVAL: Text & Textiles
26 September, 2-5pm
This afternoon event hosted by Katy Bevan brings together a selection of authors and publishers whose recent books offer insight into textiles through research, personal stories, and creative practice.
Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by 10 minutes for questions. Speakers include Justine Lee, on the living legacy of wool; Anna Buruma, on fashion archives and their relevance today; Hannah Lamb, whose work captures experiences of places through touch, making and material; Deena Beverley, on remaining creative even in extremis; and Rachael Matthews, exploring the traditional art of rag rug making for this age of the Anthropocene.
Part of the Selvedge London Textile Month
Venue: Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8EA
Online exhibition: Archives in Absence
Archives in Absence brings together 24 artists exploring themes of absence, memory, and the archive through abstraction. The exhibition asks how archives can hold both presence and loss, and how artists use abstraction to navigate what is missing or obscured in the historical record.
Now available view online.
EXHIBITION: Songs of Cloth
1 - 16 November 2025
Ilkley Manor House presents a quiet gathering of textile works by Hannah Lamb, Annie Fforde, Sarah Gamble, Pippa Hamilton, and Lorna Jewitt as part of the OUR TURN Festival. The exhibition sits close to process—stitch, dye, and surface—as ways of carrying memory and touch, moving from small, attentive gestures to material-led installation.
Castle Yard, Ilkley, West Yorkshire LS29 9DT
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