6.30 pm on Saturday 14 May
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow
WEAVING LIGHT is a de-luxe artist book on the work of Rezia Wahid whose technically dazzling work as a British-Bangladeshi contemporary weaver was recognized at an early stage of her career – the Alhambra Award for Art in 2004 and an MBE for Arts in 2005. An award-winning group of poet-artists and academics have come together to celebrate her woven art. There will be readings from the book by selected authors plus a short talk by Rose Sinclair, co-curator of the Althea McNish exhibition currently showing at WMG.
The book raises the profile of not merely an important artist-weaver but also the status of craft: that it is as modern and worthy of critical engagement as other art-forms. In WEAVING LIGHT, innovative poetics is in dialogue with contemporary craft, with texts and visual poetry woven between stunning photographs of her work in exhibition and choreographed shows.
WEAVING LIGHT will be on sale at the event and Rezia will be on hand to sign copies.
WEAVING LIGHT – 136 page full colour hardback in collector’s limited edition.
Hesterglock Press 2022
order from https://hesterglock.net/