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'Aura Borealis' & 'Octopus'

Two pieces exhibiting the unification of high-tech materials, finishing and dyeing technologies with low-tech, hand, processes to create innovative form and texture.

For the 7th International Biennial on Contemporary Textile Art Exhibition, the organisers – European Textile Network members: Ludmila Egorova and Andrew Schneider, undertook the task of presenting new artists, and informing the public about national and international tendencies.

Exhibitors included International textile artists and designers from across the world including participants from France, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, and the USA. The aim of the exhibition was to highlight textile techniques such as tapestry, batik, weaving, shibori, felting, embelishing, embroibery, appliqué, paper and 3D textiles reflecting new advances within the field of textile design and making across the world.

The majority of pieces exhibited were produced using traditional textile fibres and employed conventional and traditional textile hand techniques such as felting, quilting and tapestry. More inventive work that pushed the boundries and concepts of of Textile Art were produced by artists from Great Britain, Japan, Swiserland, Turkey and Belgium.

Two pieces were accepted ‘Aura Borealis’ & ‘Octopus’. Both exhibiting the unification of high-tech materials, finishing/dyeing technology with low-tech (hand) processes to create innovative form and texture.

When observed, the innovative piece ‘Aura Borealis’ demonstrated colour distortions and reflections that resembled the Aura Borealis. This was the result of the manipulation of a high tech polyester coated reflective film produced for glass that had been distorted through a heat-set shibori processes and heat bonded onto a black cotton organza fabric.

This piece demonstrated innovative use of a non-textile film in the creation of high-tech shibori piece that pushed the boundaries of a traditional Japanese patterning technique to the extreme, resulting in a futuristic multi layered material that retained the UV properties of the original film but had an added dimension of texture and reflection.