#Amazon #1 bestseller The author unpicks the threads that link female textile artists and the arts they produce, revealing a global and historic patchwork of assorted roles, identities and representations. Entertaining as well as informative, this book offers a unique look at women in art with an overview of female-centric textile art production including embroidery, weaving, soft sculpture and more. Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary textile artists, providing insight into their practices, themes and personal motivations. Tells us: How knitting became a spying device in wartime Why dress design was so important for the Suffragettes Why women and their textile arts were entangled in a web of global mythology How women’s arts and crafts moved from the backroom to the gallery showroom Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary textile artists, providing fascinating insights into their practices, themes and personal motivation. Unravelling Women's Art isn't only a compelling read, although it is indeed just that. Its focus on the creators, rebels and innovators who have added to the powerful canon of works - by women - in, of and about textiles is comprehensively referenced, elegantly constructed into meaningful and valuable sub-genres, and populated with illuminating examples of both known and lesser-known women practitioners. A timely and attractive publication, Unravelling Women's Art lives up to its title, un-peeling, un-doing and un-tangling a complex and expanded territory, making delightful work of revealing its joyous, eclectic and culturally vital secrets, polemics, and fine and delicious conversations!--Professor Catherine Harper "University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK." Rachelle Romeo is an Artist, who was raised and currently lives in North London, inspired by her experiences, social interactions, and surroundings. Rachelle expresses her opinions and thoughts through the mediums of embroidery and other various artistic processes including print and paint. She hopes to share her vision with the viewer, hoping to create an emotional connection between her and them. "I guess its because it's lonely thinking you are the only one in the world that thinks these things or has these experiences..." Rachelle graduated in 2013 from the University of East London. Permindar Kaur’s artistic practice extends over more than three decades during which time she has become one of Britain’s most innovative artists. Known as much for her deft manipulation of materials including glass, metal, and fabric, as for her evocative exploration of home, childhood, memory and cultural identity, Kaur’s practice defies easy categorisation. With its fastidious regard for scale and form, Kaur’s work is both alluring and contemplative. Kaur has exhibited internationally; Overgrown House (2020) is included in Compton Verney’s major new Sculpture in the Park project for 2024 alongside legendary sculptors such as Louise Bourgeoise and Helen Chadwick. Major solo exhibitions include Nothing is Fixed (2024) John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Outgrown (2022), The ArtHouse, Wakefield; Home, 5 Howick Place, London (2020-21); Interlopers, University of Hertfordshire (2016); Hiding Out, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham Lakeside Arts (2014) and Cold Comfort, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham & Mead Gallery, Coventry (1996). Her work was recently included in the major Arts Council Collection show Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 (Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham; Levinsky Gallery & The Box, Plymouth; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and The New Arts Gallery, Walsall, 2021 – 2023) and If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022, Hepworth Wakefield and Saatchi Gallery, London (2023). At Home with Art, Tate & Hayward Touring (2000), featured Permindar’s Shower Curtain (2000). New Store Stock