Come and Weave

Join us this summer for free weaving workshops with artist Gugan Gill.  

Open to all ages, these creative sessions invite visitors to explore weaving techniques and contribute to a large woven artwork. The final collaborative tapestry will be displayed as part of Ikon’s current exhibition Thread the Loom. No need to book, just drop in.

This exhibition is supported by Jerwood Foundation, Cotton Textiles Research Trust, The Saintbury Trust and Freelands Foundation.

About the artist

Gugan Gill’s work attends to the overlooked practice of daily life, seeking out the stories, rituals and forms of wisdom embedded in the everyday with emphasis on those that have been forgotten and/or marginalised. With particular focus on the practice of growing, place and cultivating community, a sense of domestic feminism is woven throughout her work. Inspired by Luce Giard’s reflections on embodied knowledge and Ursula Le Guin’s consideration for the life story, Gill considers how quiet, habitual acts carry memory, resistance and belonging. Here we can begin to understand ways we shape and are shaped by the world around.