Thread Count: An exhibition of contemporary textile practice in two parts | Part TWO
Thread Count Part Two is co-curated by Professor Freddie Robins and The Art Station. Including a new large scale textile installation by Sophie Giller, and more work by artists from Thread Count Part One.
Exhibiting Artists: Sophie Giller, Annabel Elgar, Andrew Omoding, Daisy Collingridge, Freddie Robins, Rebecca Riess, Rosie Edwards, and Woo Jin Joo.
Where: The Old Theatre, Framlingham, IP13 9BH.
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When: Saturday 6th July – Sunday 21st July (Open Weds – Sun, 12 – 4 pm)
*or otherwise by appointment, please contact info@theartstation.uk to request.
Launch: Saturday 6th July 2024, 12 – 4 pm.
‘Things That Aren’t There Anymore’ by Sophie Giller
Giller’s enormous new installation, Things That Aren’t There Anymore, comprises of two meticulously constructed curtains and a window covering, How Things Look, which adorns the interior of the historic Old Theatre. Using a combination of new and repurposed textiles, techniques such as printmaking, and both hand and machine stitching, Giller reframes images of outmoded ephemera and objects from her childhood and the ‘90’s and ‘00’s as everyday relics.
For many years the artist has been collecting different types of packaging, defunct technologies, retro toys, clothing, and other domestic items. Printed representations of this paraphernalia are layered onto sections of translucent, colourful textiles, and pieced together, disrupting the traditional notion of patchworking as a domestic, craft-based activity.
The seating area, Stay A While, invites us to contemplate nostalgia, the life cycle of materials and the value we place on them, and the shifting material and visual backdrop to domestic life.
Image: Sophie Giller, Things That Aren’t There Anymore. Photo by Doug Atfield.
Thread Count is supported with funding from East Anglian Art Fund, and Arts Council England.