Abigail Reynolds: Works in Glass
Reynolds is known for her folding and collaging techniques across sculpture and print, but this show presents a chance to see the Cornwall-based visual artist’s projects in glass. The Reading and Misreading series references historic imagery and stained glass, while Flux is an experiment to create her own glass from seaweed and sand from Porthmeor beach in St Ives, where she works.
Opening 6 July at NewArtCentre., Salisbury
Stories in Stitch
One for the history-lovers, this exhibition gathers examples domestic embroidery and sewing from the 17th to 20th centuries, by professionals, artist makers, and amateurs as young as 11. On show are Mary Linwood’s ‘needle paintings’ from the late 1770s, recreations of paintings in crewel wool and silk highlights with stitches that imitate brush strokes, and local sewer Dorothy Ann French’s 1890s collection of patchwork, crochet, knitting and pictures in wool.
Until 29 September at Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Harewood Biennial 2024: Create/Elevate
The craft biennial is back for its third edition at the Yorkshire stately home, this time masterminded by Ligaya Salazar (who previously curated Craft Council's Gaining Ground exhibition in 2022). As always, the works on display respond to the context – interrogating the building's history and collection, its landscape and ecology, and the ways in which the space has been used – with artist Hew Locke, ceramicist Xanthe Somers, designers BEIT Collective, the Common Threads group of embroideres and brushmaker Rosa Harradine among those exhibiting.
Until 28 October at Harewood House, Leeds