GROUP EXHIBITION

Celia Pym explores damage and repair, working with garments that belong to individuals as well as itemsin museum archives, revealing her extensive experience with the spectrum and stories of damage. ForPym, the process of repairing a treasured garment is a form of nurturing. Time and memory are embodiedin a person’s clothing and Pym’s visible acts of care and mending preserve and memorialize lives andrelationships.

Amy Revier’s broad practice considers how textiles can serve as a form of nourishment; binding, wrappingand holding us all in a secure state from birth to death, through the everyday and ceremonial moments.Woven garments and complex structures act as protective shelters, a form of architecture that houses thebody, our minds and our innermost selves.

Donna Lynch (Studio Ashay) creates wearable and sculptural works, intricately layered, pleated andappliqued. Understanding the relationship between shape and the movement of cloth and thread, herpieces suggest a fluidity and confidence of line. Lynch’s two-dimensional fabric studies reveal a processof deconstruction and reconstruction, an unpicking of a tailored formal approach towards raw and organicexplorations.