The Event of a Thread

The Event of a Thread

3 to 24 October 2026

Artists: Olivia Arnold, Samuel Luke Beatty, Rae Boggs, Jennifer Brady, Zara Collins, Vicky Cutler, Monika Cvitanović, Emily Ebbs, Sarah Edmondson, Tamara Elkins, Sarah Furness, Sophie Lane, Hannah McKellar, Helen Morgan, Abby Murray, Lilli Taranto, Sylvie Veness, Nina Walton, Lois Waters

Anni Albers, a leading figure in modern art and textile practice, described ‘the event of a thread’ as the moment when a single thread or idea takes shape, unfolding into a network of connections. This poetic idiom, which she likened to Paul Klee’s notion of ‘taking a line for a walk’, became a guiding principle in her work, an approach that treated weaving as a way of thinking through making.

Inspired by Albers’ vision of thread as a nexus of connection, The Event of a Thread brings together emerging artists whose practices engage with textiles as a medium and an expanded field of artistic inquiry, responding to the complexities of contemporary experience.

Drawing on a woven logic, the exhibition explores how artists working through textiles illuminate the world’s entanglements. Spanning three gallery rooms and a foyer, the works unfold like a tapestry, interlacing surface and structure, body and memory, tradition and ritual.

Informed by diverse histories of labour, making, and exchange, including feminist, queer, and generational lineages, the exhibition reveals how textile processes and ideas create new forms of connection across cultural, material, and technological landscapes.

Opening Event: Saturday 10 October 2pm.

To be opened by Dr Sylvia Griffin

above: Sylvie Veness Woven Void (detail), 2024, cotton rag paper, 50 cm x 50 cm