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Spotlight: Pippa Hetherington and the Keiskamma Art Project

Using a mix of English lace, isiShweshwe, African wax cloth, velvet, and other fabrics, we sought to reflect the migratory journeys of cloth and the way different cultures claim and...

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Spotlight: Alice Bowen-Churchill

Alice Bowen-Churchill is an educator, artist and designer who features on the line-up for our upcoming Summer After Hours (10th July). We caught up with Alice to find out more...

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Spotlight on Soft Power artist Kani Kamil

Our current exhibition, Soft Power: Lives told through textile art, features work by 26 contemporary and historic artists who all use textile art as a way to tell stories and communicate...

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Woven Resistance Textiles by Afghan Refugee Women

We caught up with the founder of CEO of Polly and Other Stories, Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui, whose three artworks, Eating Culture, Sleepover and The Gift of Giving, feature in Soft Power....

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Curator Bank - Mentoring support for South West artists

We are pleased to share that we are collaborating with Visual Arts South West as part of their new initiative, Curator Bank, which will offer mentoring support to artists in the...

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Giant new experimental drawing through space by Luke Jerram

New site-responsive public artwork from internationally renowned Luke Jerram to be installed at the historic RWA Art Gallery this summer 

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