In 2013, curator Daisy McMullan and I co-curated The Geometrics: Volume 1 at Kingsgate Gallery in London. The exhibition brought together artists and designers working through geometry, pattern, colour and material, including Camille Walala, Melanie Bowles, Ele Carpenter, Bridget Harvey, Tanvi Kant, Katherine May, Marie Molterer, Marie O’Connor and Clare Willard.
At the time, I was moving between several identities and contexts: artist, researcher, teacher, textile designer and founder of the Slow Textiles Group. I had spent many years within academic environments, but I was becoming increasingly interested in creating an independent space in which the experimental intelligence of textile practice could be encountered publicly.
The Geometrics emerged from that transition.
It was partly an exhibition, but I don’t think I ever…
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