Sentences with phrase «tapestry weaver»

Fort Collins, CO, USA About Blog I am a contemporary tapestry weaver.

Anni Albers (1899 - 1994), wife of the abstract painter, stained glass artist, and Bauhaus instructor Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), was the leading Bauhaus tapestry weaver.

The papermill was in an area famous for its tapestry — Aubusson and Felletin — and I had a fascinating tour around a museum of tapestry cartoons (the paintings which provide the guide for the tapestry weaver).

Additional weaving workshops and an installation from tapestry weaver Christabel Balfour, alongside a craft walking tour with historian Chris Rogers, a series by maker Phil Cuttance on casting vases, and a stitching workshop by the Stitch School will also take place.

David is a potter and Laurie is a tapestry weaver.

Fort Collins, CO, USA About Blog I am a contemporary tapestry weaver.

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So when, for my birthday this year, my sweet wife got me a day - long tapestry weaving class with fabric designer and weaver April Rhodes, I was beside myself with excitement.

About Blog K Spoering is a Contemporary tapestry designer and weaver, oil painter.

Over the past five years, I've had the opportunity to co-host a TEWA Tea during the summer months, that benefitted the Dhaka weavers from Nepal — amazing women who create beautiful tapestries, clothes, scarves — you name it.

In the fifteenth century, the artist of the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries becomes intrigued by the weaver's blind daughter.

Each room and suite in the hotel is unique featuring, for example, damask tapestries that 4BI & Associates notably co-created with local Italian artisanal weavers especially for the project.

Collaborating with a team of weavers from the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili has designed a tapestry for the Clothworkers Hall, which is being shown at the National Gallery within a room lined with murals.

Designed by one of our most celebrated contemporary artists, The Caged Bird's Song (pictured below) not only demonstrates the exceptional technical, creative and interpretative abilities of the five weavers who produced it, but nods to the allure of tapestry for artists through the ages, too.

In 1954, she spent six weeks studying tapestry with Finnish weaver Martta Taipale at the Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina.

Working with a team of master weavers, Ofili creates a tapestry that draws together the sights and sounds of tropical Trinidad, where he lives, with nods to both the classical world and - unexpectedly - the Italian footballer Mario Balotelli.

Although Boetti first rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the Arte Povera group, his name later became synonymous with the large tapestries that he would design and then send to weavers in Afghanistan to be made.

Ruth Laskey has been crafting tapestries using a weaver's loom since leaving the California College of the Arts in 2005, after growing unhappy with the restrictive process of painting.

Ryan McGinness» new silk tapestry, Untitled (Woven Mindscape III)(2015), a collaboration with famed French weavers Tassinari & Chatel will also be on view.

Chris Ofili's watercolour - tapestry is a marvel of the weaver's craft, but the concept is ill - defined.

Accompanying Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic, the artist's ambitious presentation of the tapestry within a specially conceived environment in the Sunley Room at the National Gallery, this publication tells the story of the work's evolution and documents the close collaboration between Ofili and master weavers who have interpreted his designs with astonishing nuance.

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Henry Moore overseeing the installation of Three Seated Figures, 1981, with weavers from West Dean Tapestry Studio c. 1983.

Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louises own mother was a weaver of tapestries.

The artist, moving on from patchwork blankets and embroidery, is trying out tapestry for the first time and is collaborating with weavers at the West Dean Tapestry Studio on a reworking of her Black Cat — a «rather demonic self - portrait in a long black dress» — intapestry for the first time and is collaborating with weavers at the West Dean Tapestry Studio on a reworking of her Black Cat — a «rather demonic self - portrait in a long black dress» — inTapestry Studio on a reworking of her Black Cat — a «rather demonic self - portrait in a long black dress» — in thread.

Mariana Aguirre visits the famed Guadalajara workshop whose weavers have created tapestries for artists such as John Currin, Pae White, George Condo and Karen Kilimnik.

She established herself in the 1970s as a weaver of large minimalist textiles, and one of her tapestries from 2005 hangs in the Norwegian National Parliament's press room in Oslo.

When Chris Ofili wanted to translate the liquid qualities of his watercolours into woven wool for his current exhibition «Weaving Magic» at London's National Gallery, he turned to the master weavers of Dovecot Tapestry Studio — a project that became nearly three years in the making.

This celebration of female weavers at Edinburgh's important workshop also includes artists who are interested in what has been defined as a «female» craft ever since Homer's Odyssey portrayed Penelope weaving and unweaving a tapestry.

Waterfalls and dancers, Maya Angelou and Mario Balotelli... Chris Ofili's exotic reverie took five weavers three years to translate from watercolour to tapestry.

Continuing a century - long heritage of making and collaboration with leading international contemporary artists, the Studio weavers are dedicated to producing extraordinary and engaging works of art by commission from private and public collectors from across the globe In 1946, the Studios were incorporated as The Edinburgh Tapestry Company.

In 2013, South African artist Cameron Platter collaborated with weavers at ELC Art and Craft Center Rorke's Drift, a storied art hub in rural KwaZulu - Natal province, on wool tapestries.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, his experiments attracted weavers such as María Assumpció Raventós and Aurelia Munoz and led to the foundation of the Catalan School of Tapestry.

Dovecot's Master Weavers continue to work to commission, producing tapestry and tufted rugs for private and public collectors.

As a key player in the renaissance of tapestry in the 20th century, Dovecot's Master Weavers worked with many leading contemporary artists including David Hockney, Henry Moore, Frank Stella and RB Kitaj.

The selection includes historic European tapestries made by large ateliers, twentieth - century collaborations between artist and weaver, and works by solo artist - weavers who use tapestry as their creative medium.

The exhibition spans five decades and includes tapestries created in collaboration with the Dovecot weavers in 1971.

The artist is collaborating with Dovecot Tapestry Studio, whose weavers are translating his design into a hand - woven work.

Commissioned by the Clothworkers» Company, which was established nearly 500 years ago to oversee the cloth - finishing trade in London, Ofili collaborated with Dovecot Tapestry Studio, where his design was translated by master weavers into a hand - woven tTapestry Studio, where his design was translated by master weavers into a hand - woven tapestrytapestry.

As part of London Craft Week, the Dovecot Master Weavers are presenting a talk and masterclasses at Clothworkers» Hall today about Chris Ofili tapestry A Caged Bird's Song.

Following World War Two, tapestry workshops were opened in Munich and Nuremberg, while individual weavers worked throughout Germany and in Vienna.

About Blog K Spoering is a Contemporary tapestry designer and weaver, oil painter.