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Billie Zangewa at the seven-foot table in her kitchen that she uses to make tapestries, and where her son has done his home-schooling.Credit.Jurie Potgieter
Billie Zangewa Makes Art Where the Light is Best
The artist’s tapestries capture moments of her domestic life. They begin at her kitchen table.
Billie Zangewa at the seven-foot table in her kitchen that she uses to make tapestries, and where her son has done his home-schooling.Credit.Jurie Potgieter
, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home.
Rootless is how Billie Zangewa recalls much of her childhood, growing up in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana in the 1970s and ’80s. Her father was an engineer who helped build electrical power systems across southern Africa, and her family moved around a lot.
Textile artists: the pioneers of a new material world
Textile artists: the pioneers of a new material world
These contemporary textile artists are weaving together the common threads and rich variety of fibre art in new ways
Anna Ray,
Weave. Courtesy of House On Mars Gallery. Photography: Anna Ray
Textile art has long been a vehicle for storytelling. Much like ceramic art, it has long trodden the foggy and hotly-contested line between art and craft. It comes dressed in many forms: fibre art, tapestry, weaving, embroidery, knitting, and often spreads beyond the borders of art into fashion, design, science and technology.