I didn't take any photos of Sheila Hicks' installation at the Boijmans, so these are just found on google. I loved her work and recommend a visit if you're in town, stunning little compositions with all sort of textures and unexpected objects woven into the fabric (feathers and bones amongst others).
Since the 1960's, Sheila Hicks (1934), trained in the modernistic Bauhaus tradition, has a unique way of mixing autonomous art with the traditional craft of weaving. She makes 'paintless paintings' - also called textile graffiti - as well as architectural installations. In Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Hicks presents a selection of small woven works (minimes) she made as some kind of diary notes over the past fifty years. These works of art are created on a home-made manual loom that is not bigger than a canvas stretcher. The designs depend on her inspiration at the time. As well as these minimes, some parts of her sketchbooks, a few photographs and other sources of inspiration are also on display.
Text source: boijmans.nl
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