{"id":578,"date":"2025-08-06T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:14:22","slug":"fabrication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/fabrication\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>An Exhibition of Textile Art<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TA-F_Poster_SM-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TA-F_Poster_SM-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TA-F_Poster_SM-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TA-F_Poster_SM-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TA-F_Poster_SM.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Poster <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fabrication was a group exhibition featuring thirty Bradford-based artists, all working within the medium of textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164731-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"605\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/fabrication\/20250610_164731-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-605\" 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https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_165215-1568x1568.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"616\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/fabrication\/20250610_164752\/\" class=\"wp-image-616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164752-1568x1568.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"617\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/fabrication\/20250610_164826\/\" class=\"wp-image-617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250610_164826-1568x1568.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I produced the exhibition, because I wanted to celebrate textiles as an art form, not only for its aesthetic quality, but also because it is a remarkable medium that lends itself to the telling of a story or the sending of a message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Textiles have been predominantly a female artform and many girls of older generations were taught to sew for domestic purposes.&nbsp; In the past, it has been dismissed as less skilful than painting or sculpture and associated with the physical wearing of clothes and furnishings, the soft and the pliable. But this is changing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition drew on the capacity for textiles to not only set an everyday scene but also to narrate a story, often combining imagery with words.&nbsp; The artists involved  shared personal tales of joy and achievement, but also of suffering, hardship and migration.&nbsp; It also references the role played by textiles in the history of activism and protest.&nbsp; Here, the work adorns the walls and the furniture, but it can also be carried and worn, as a chronicle of atrocities or as a proclamation of allegiance to a cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many pieces illustrated how textiles can be a tool for expression, in that they are not only seen but felt and so lend themselves beautifully to the exploration of emotion. Stitching is an intricate form of mark-making and can also bind and hem and weave together.&nbsp; Even the language of sewing is symbolic of sharing and healing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the artists also used found or second hand materials in their work or exploited the versatility of textiles by combining cloth and stitching with other media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the exhibition, see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/past-exhibitions\/221-fabrication\">https:\/\/trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/past-exhibitions\/221-fabrication<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4>My work in the exhibition:  TORN<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A series of artworks based on the issue of Violence towards Women and Girls, influenced by statistics and stories in the media about women who have been killed by their partners or ex-partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20240924_184951-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20240924_184951-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20240924_184951-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20240924_184951-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20240924_184951-1535x2048.jpg 1535w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20240924_184951-1568x2092.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20240924_184951-scaled.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Textile collage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This textile artwork was based on \u2018arpilleras\u2019, which are the colourful, hand-stitched, applique tapestries, made predominantly by groups of women, that document the lives of the poor and oppressed in Chile during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TORN-1-1024x949.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"555\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TORN-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/torn\/torn-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TORN-1-1024x949.jpg 1024w, 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class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-1024x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"582\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?attachment_id=582\" class=\"wp-image-582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-1024x1000.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-768x750.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-1536x1501.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-2048x2001.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-different-for-girls-1-1568x1532.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Woven2-1024x1009.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"584\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Woven2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?attachment_id=584\" class=\"wp-image-584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Woven2-1024x1009.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Woven2-300x296.jpg 300w, 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data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?attachment_id=583\" class=\"wp-image-583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ripped-up--1568x1568.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Textile Collage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Exhibition of Textile Art Fabrication was a group exhibition featuring thirty Bradford-based artists, all working within the medium of textiles. 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