Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition
Timed Online Auction, 2 - 24 February 2025
Innovation & Tradition
About the Session‘Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition’ highlights a diverse range of materials, techniques, and processes from various regions, including Southern, Central and Western Africa. These works coalesce utility, aesthetics and cultural identity. From the tactile threads of textiles to the intricate blending of natural fibres in baskets and the sculptural forms of steel, copper, brass and beads, the concept of weaving is reimagined as a metaphor for connection, storytelling and the passing on of tradition.
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In Southern Africa our weaving tradition is mainly centred on basket weaving, which uses locally occurring natural reed and palm. In this work I was inspired to rework traditional weaving materials and techniques, reimagining the 'Ilala palm' typically used in basketry into the evolution of a new form which draws directly from the land and broader history of traditional textile production through the structure of the loom.
- Leila Walter