Chiharu Shiota: ‘For me, black is like the universe – you cannot follow just one string.’ Picture: Sunhi Mang, courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Local Colour: experiments in nature opened this week, promoted with the tag line of: ‘An exhibition of contemporary textiles and fibre art.’ Its description offers a pretty wide girth, and yet, this is an exhibition that taps into quite a specific global movement of “slow textiles” which embraces a return to the handmade and holistic, and in doing so imbues the medium with an enviro-social message.
