The Rijswijk Museum in The Netherlands hosted it’s 6th Rijswijk Textile Biennial from 18 June to 6 October 2019. Through the Upland Arts Development Organisation, I was awarded the Go and See travel bursary to visit and review the exhibition.
The exhibition was a unique opportunity to view the work of 22 internationally renowned textile artists from around the world.
The Rijswijk Museum each year puts textiles at the forefront of contemporary art and gives textiles a platform as a valid means of artistic expression, lessoning the gap that still exists between craft and fine art.
The artwork demonstrated a huge diversity of textile materials and techniques with artists creating very innovative work using various combinations of weaving, knitting, hand stitching, machine embroidery, photography and digital print.
Although often using very traditional textile methods the artists on exhibition were tackling very current and contemporary issues.
Images of artists work – Monika Supe, Paula do Prado and Paul Yore