Contemporary Textile Artists Who Inspire

Textile Artists: The Pioneers of a New Material World

is the title of a recent article from Wallpaper* media highlighting the ways in which 6 contemporary textile and fiber have influenced the medium to continue to develop new ways of communicating with the world.

Featured artists include, Sheila Hicks, Chiharu Shiota, Billie Zangewa, Gabriel Dawe, Anna Ray, Diedrick Brackens.

These artists play with scale, creating works and installations that take up space. They give materials voice, emphasizing their multi-dimensionality and tactile nature. They use textiles to touch on subject such as, domesticity, motherhood, hyper-masculine ideals, history, folklore and more. Their works evoke joy and optimism, sorrow and contemplation.

They come from vastly different places and walks of life but all choose to work with fiber, bringing a continual wealth of richness to the medium.