WOMEN IN ART

English artist Mary Delany’s artistic practice started, remarkably, at the age of 72, when she began making intricate paper collages of botanical flora and fauna in 1772. Her innovative and …

Anna Mary Robertson (1860-1961), better known as “Grandma Moses”, is recognised today as one of the most celebrated American folk artists of the 20th century, but her rise to fame …

Nicole Farhi had a remarkable career in the fashion industry that spanned three decades; she launched her own eponymous womenswear label in 1982, which later expanded into menswear and interiors. …

A remarkable enterprise began in 2019, spearheaded by crochet teacher and artist Eva Pacheco; to transform a sunbaked shopping district in the Spanish town of Alhaurin de la Torre near …

With a distinctively graphic, colourful style, Colombian artist Beatriz González (1932-2026) made art as a powerful commentary on the political and social turmoil of Colombia. Much of her art was …

Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku makes richly tactile and evocative paintings depicting people and places with a fragmentary, dream-like quality. She reimagines images of people taken from photographic archives and the …

Warmth and humanity are embedded into every textile artwork made by Polish artist Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, whose practice celebrates the colourful and spirited heritage of her Roma family. Mirga-Tas upcycles second-hand …

Los Angeles-based sculptor and fibre artist Tanya Aguiñiga has made a career out of working with traditional craft practices and materials to produce a wide range of sculptures, installations and …

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos makes vast, all-encompassing sculptural installations that embrace the wonder of textiles in all their glory, from crochet and embroidery to needlework and knitting, which she often …

Fiber artist Katrina Sanchez makes deeply tactile and brilliantly bright knitted objects that speak of her sunny childhood in Panama, bringing a joyful and optimistic sensibility to the spaces they …

From her busy studio in the Netherlands, textile artist Milla Novo has been making great waves in the realms of interior design since launching her career in 2017. Widely recognised …

Rising French textile artist Elise Peroi makes liminal artworks that hover between mediums; part tapestry, part painting, and part sculpture, her delicate and intricate work brings plant forms and subtle, …

Contemporary, German-born textile artist Joana Schneider’s art takes many forms, from haunting, mask-like faces and rhythmic abstractions to excerpts of text. But running through her multifarious subject matter is a …

Contemporary British artist Lucy Sparrow makes vast, immersive installations featuring hand-made felt objects that range from grocery store goods to full-scale replica works of art. Known colloquially as ‘the felt …

Renowned Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (1910-1996) was one of the 20th century’s most remarkable artists, and a current large-scale retrospective at London’s Tate Modern pays homage to the …

Now in her 93rd year, Colombian contemporary fibre artist Olga de Amaral makes woven textile art that is reliant on a slow, structured approach, one that results in striking, monumental …