Exhibition at NewArtCentre examines the ongoing relationship between sculpture and textiles
(Artdaily.org)

The Most Real Thing brings together diverse artists and makers to examine the ongoing relationship between sculpture and textiles, including work made using a range of techniques and media, from three-dimensional objects, contemporary painting, costume and performance to fabric, craft and design. The title of the exhibition is taken from Anni Albers’ 1938 essay Work with Material in which she claimed: “…we must come down to earth from the clouds where we live in vagueness and experience the most real thing there is: material.” Albers (1899-1994), studied and taught at the Bauhaus. Having begun as a painter she developed a life-long fascination for abstraction and found a freedom of expression in the stability provided by the strict grid of the loom. She explored the technical limits of hand-weaving before pioneering innovative uses of woven fabric as art, architecture