Fabric: Touch and Identity: GROUP EXHIBITION CO-CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Compton Verney Gallery

14 March - 31 December 2020

Works

Alice Kettle, Adam and Eve, 2020

Alice Kettle, Adam and Eve, 2020

Overview

Playful and provocative, this exhibition explored how the qualities of cloth conceal, reveal, and seduce through the prisms of art, design, film, and dance. The drape, fold, touch, and feel of fabric were used to examine identity as a sensual, gendered, and political experience by artists including Raisa Kabir, Vivienne Westwood, Alison Watt, and Cathy de Monchaux. The exhibition featured a number of new works, including 'Fanfair', an immersive installation by contemporary textile artist Reiko Sudo. Curated by Professor Alice Kettle (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Professor Lesley Millar (University for the Creative Arts), the exhibition was developed from their three-year research project The Erotic Cloth and the publication The Erotic Cloth (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).