Anya Paintsil at Arnolfini, Bristol

Threads // July 8 - October 1, 2023

Threads featured 21 contemporary international artists and makers - including Anya Paintsil - who use textiles as their chosen medium.

 

"Celebrating material and making, these artists use the storytelling power of textiles to connect with past traditions, find commonalities between cultures, time and place, and to ‘breathe stories into materials’. 

 

Threads encompasses processes of weaving and spinning, rug-making, stitching and embroidery, print, knit, threading, mending and found materials, with materials and techniques handed down, reused and reinvented.

 

Co-curated by leading textile artist Alice KettleThreads weaves throughout Arnolfini’s three floors, to reveal how textiles ‘remember’, how memory is ‘embedded within the process of making’ and how new narratives are created."  

 

Read more and watch Anya's video interview about her participation here.

 

 

July 18, 2023