Group Exhibition
19 September 2025–11 January 2026
Tonico Lemos Auad, Jonathan Baldock and Yinka Shonibare feature in ‘Material Worlds’
Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham, UK
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles explores how artists are using textiles in surprising and radical ways. Illuminating the diverse roles textiles play in contemporary artistic practice, the exhibition brings together artists who take the intimate, everyday and domestic quality of textiles and transform them into theatrical, bold, unsettling and humorous artworks that create worlds and tell stories ranging from the personal to the cosmic.
The exhibition features work created predominantly over the last decade by 15 UK-based artists, including Jonathan Baldock, Tonico Lemos Auad, Yinka Shonibare, Caroline Achaintre, Larry Achiampong, Phyllida Barlow, Alexandre da Cunha, Paul Maheke, Anna Perach, Yelena Popova, Paloma Proudfoot, Rae-Yen Song, Tenant of Culture and Zadie Xa.
Curated by artist Caroline Achaintre with Hayward Gallery Touring, this touring exhibition was previously on view at Mead Gallery, Warwick (2024), Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham (2025).
