textile/adjacent

textile/adjacent was created for the Threads Textiles Festival, part of Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of The Arts 2022.

‘The artist collective behind TheSeeHere join together in an inaugural group exhibition to show work sharing a common thread. The eleven members differing in age, practice and history have responded to a prompt to create textile-adjacent work in the medium of their respective practice.’

This show was situated at Backroom Gallery in Anvil House Studio on Wakefield Street so that all of TheSeeHere members could exhibit as a group.

See the full catalogue for this show by clicking HERE

Adjacent: Close or near, sharing a border.

In the spirit of the whakataukī whiria te tāngata - weaving or binding the people together - TheSeeHere presents this multi-artist show with work by: Vivien Atkinson, Becky Bliss, Pam Brabants, Sandy Connon, Mel Ford, Marilyn Jones, Greta Menzies, Sarah Read, Caroline Thomas, Nina van Duijnhoven and Tia Venning.

The exhibition is provoked by textile’s material markers, considering texture, colour, form, structure, value, culture and meaning.

TheSeeHere members are excited by the challenge of showing their work together, unconstrained by the limited space of the micro window gallery in which they exhibit individually for a month every year. Weaving together work from differing strands/perspectives offers up possibilities for enriching conversations and even some (polite) arguments between the works, the artists and the viewers. Of course, with a diverse group of artists/practices there are going to be many interesting stories – these are hinted at in the individual artist statements in the show catalogue