What lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles
Curators: Naomi Polonsky and Lorna Dillon
This exhibition brought together works by women artists and collectives using the medium of
textiles to comment on gender and society.
I was invited to guest curate the exhibition for the Women´s Art Collection. We were awarded funding from the Art Fund for four curatorial assistants.
Afrodescendant Diaspora Art
Curators: Juana Alicia Ruíz Hernández and Lorna Dillon
A pop-up exhibition of artworks by the Mujeres Tejiendo Sueños y Sabores de Paz in the Alison Richard Building, Cambridge. July 2023.
Textile Art by the Prize-winning Tejedoras de Mampuján
Display by Juana Alicia Ruíz Hernández and Lorna Dillon
Over four weekends in parallel with Cambridge Open Studios, we exhibited and sold artworks by the Mujeres Tejiendo Sueños y Sabores de Paz (Women Stitching Dreams and Tastes of Peace)
Latin American Art Festival
Curators: Lorna Dillon, Naomi Polonsky
This exhibition brings together works by the Chilean sculptor Robinson Barría, the arpillera artist Erika Silva and the Argentine artist.
What lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles
Curators: Naomi Polonsky and Lorna Dillon
This exhibition brings together works by women artists and collectives using the medium of
textiles to comment on gender and society.
Textile Art, Peace Building and Human Rights in Latin America
An online talk by Lorna Dillon, part of the Riverside Theatre's lecture series, originally recorded on 23/03/2021.
Leverhulme Fellow Lorna Dillon will speak about textile art in Latin America. She will reflect on the valuable work being carried out today by participatory needlework groups in Colombia, Mexico and Chile.