Textile Tales in CONTEXTILE 2024

A look at some of the work on show at the Contemporary Textile Art Biennial in Guimarães, Portugal

Let’s start with the headline act. The invited artist this year was Josep Grau-Garriga who I didn’t know much about (still don’t, honestly) but I very much enjoyed spending time with these very large, richly textured weaves.

Then the Open Call and Canadian (the invited country) exhibitions had such a range of styles, materials, forms…

These are by António Jorge from Portugal (I can’t find a link for Insta or a website sorry, but aren’t they great?!)

By Camilla Marinoni

By Carole Simard-Laflamme

This work was beautiful and delicate, by Anna Ill who seems to combine materials in a very poetic way.

Another delicate one. By Konrad Juściński made from actual dandelion seeds.

By Josipa Stefanec

By Loreta Švaikauskienė

This piece was attached to headphones and when you touched different parts of it you could change the sounds that were coming through. By Etech Studio

‘Chaos’ (literally). By Chilean artist Carlos Bautista Biernnay

By Nikos Iosif

And then there was this brilliant video by Graeme Patterson ‘Strange Birds’ - one of the featured costumes are below.

That’s it for now. Sorry for the mixed photo quality. As always, you can find me here on Insta - come and say hi xx