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PREPARATIONS are underway for a large textile exhibition centered in Blackburn in October.
The show will be presented against the backdrop of the impressive cotton industry infrastructure in Pennine Lancashire.
The month-long 2021 UK Textile Biennale is the return of a successful event in 2019.
Featuring a major commission from Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid with fashion historian and TV presenter Amber Butchart as guest curator, it will present events in former factories and other spaces of East Lancashire, such as Blackburn’s Cotton Exchange and Burnley’s Queen Street Mill.
The October Biennale, organized by Super Slow Way, focuses on the whole of textiles.
It includes a revolutionary and sustainable fashion project by designer and judge Great British Sewing Bee Patrick Grant and a collaboration with artist James Fox and actor Maxine Peake.
There will also be ‘CP Company Cinquanta’, a retrospective of the 50th anniversary of the Italian sportswear company curated by Darwen-born brand consultant Gary Aspden, who brought his extensive collection of adidas sneakers to the biennial in 2019. .
It takes place in Darwen from October 1 to 10.
Blackburn with Darwen’s Growth Boss, Cllr Phil Riley, said, “It’s a fantastic project.
“Gary Aspden’s ability to attract large businesses to the Borough is simply exceptional.
“As the world begins to recover from the pandemic, we all need reasons to be optimistic about the future, and it is good to see the UK Textile Biennale grow and bring in new cultural ideas and new ideas. public to the borough and to the region at large. ”
Azraa Motala has created a series of painted portraits of the neglected young South Asian British women of Lancashire which will be on display in the collection of the Harris Museum in Preston and reproduced on banners hanging from municipal buildings in Blackburn, Pendle, Accrington and Burnley.
In the Blackburn Cotton Exchange, Jasleen Kaur, Jamie Holman and Masimba Hwati will explore the residual cultural identities of the British Empire.
To mark the 90th anniversary of Gandhi’s historic visit to Darwen, ‘Re-Thinking Khadi’ is a new work by Bharti Parmar that focuses on the textile archives of the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery and includes a cinematic collaboration with the film born in Blackburn Sima Gonsai.
Homegrown / Homespun collaboration with Mr Grant will reveal the first pair of home-grown, home-made commercial jeans after a field of linen and pastel was planted on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Blackburn.
James Fox’s new work at Helmshore Mill explores the history of protest and punishment through the loom breaker riots in Lancashire in 1826.
Queen Street Mill, Burnley, will host exhibitions by Reetu Sattar, Brigid McCleer and Raisa Kabir.
There will also be an exhibition of items from the Gawthorpe textile collection
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