Threads of Renewal II: Weaving memory, healing, and future-making
This exhibition explores two interconnected themes — Memory & Ancestry and Healing & Resistance — transforming fabric into a vessel for remembrance, care, and renewal.
Tag: textile art
Artist Gina van der Ploeg connects textiles to land
For Cape Town-based textile artist, Gina van der Ploeg, textiles are not an end in themselves. Instead, she honours the entire process of making textiles by exploring the different parts of the textile supply chain in her art. “It’s crazy...
5 Artists who work with waste exhibit at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023
Living amid social and environmental catastrophes requires innovation and creativity to help find solutions, catalyse change, and comfort us in the face of adversity. We are seeing this in the artworld as more and more artists respond to the environmental...
Artist Gina van der Ploeg merges touch and textiles with tending to the land
“We wouldn’t have textiles without agriculture,” says Cape Town-based fibre artist and farmer, Gina van der Ploeg, “And what I love about textiles is that everyone has a connection with them.” From the clothing we wear to the textiles that...
8 African Textile Artists Stitching Worlds
Textiles have been at the centre of trade and civilisation for millennia and the connection between textiles and art goes way back too. Textile art uses different fibres as a medium of expression, from embroidery, weaving, tapestries, and more. In...