Girl Power: A Major Exhibition Features 40 Female Artistes Who Have Elevated Knitting, Weaving, Sewing And Crochet To A High Art Form
by The Daily Eye Team February 1 2017, 2:43 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 39 secsIt has been a week dominated by politics, with the swearing in of President Trump and huge women’s marches in the US, London and around the world. Many women marching were wearing self-knitted pink pussy hats, women united in rejecting Trump’s position as a world leader for, amongst other reasons, here is a man who has demonstrated little respect for women. The opening this week of Entangled: Threads & Making – which brings together more than 100 works by 40 women artists of 19 nationalities united by their use of materials and methodology of making art – seems particularly appropriate. Historic modernist figures including Sonia Delaunay, Louise Bourgeois, Anni Albers and Hannah Ryggen are included alongside a new generation of artist makers.