Published on the occasion of the exhibition Art Textiles at the Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester, 10 October 2015-31 January 2016.

Artists included in the exhibition:

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Maria Balshaw -- ART TEXTILES, An extra/ordinary medium / Jennifer Harris -- Living Room, Classroom, Studio, Museum: The Cultural Versatility of Textiles / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Cloth, Memory and Loss / Pennina Barnett -- Artists. Magdalena Abakanowicz -- Ghada Amer -- Beverly Ayling-Smith -- Maxine Bristow -- Jagoda Buić -- Susan Collis -- Tracey Emin -- Helga Sophie Goetze -- Shelly Goldsmith -- Lubaina Himid -- Kimsooja -- Abdoulaye Konaté -- Lawrence Lemaoana -- Lyn Malcolm -- Laima Oržekauskienė -- Grayson Perry -- Jessica Rankin -- Elaine Reichek -- Miriam Schapiro -- Mary Sibande -- Do Ho Suh -- Risham Syed -- Dorothea Tanning -- Michele Walker -- Faith Wilding -- Anne Wilson -- Monika Žaltauskaitė-Grašienė -- List of exhibits.

The status of textiles as an art medium is highly ambivalent. Traditionally, they have been situated on the margins, in a borderland between art and craft. Since the 1960s, a growing body of contemporary art demonstrates a new engagement with the materials and techniques of crafts, particularly textiles, raising questions about the value of the handmade in the digital age. This show will include artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Ghada Amer and Kimsooja who use textiles as a powerful tool for epressing ideas about the social, political and artistic. Publisher