Show celebrates artists’ material world
An exhibition displaying modernist textiles from “trailblazers” of design is being hosted at Bath fashion and textile gallery Gray MCA.
The gallery reopened on Saturday, May 1, with its new collection celebrating pioneers of mid-20th century design with its From Bauhaus To Our House: Modern British Female Designers exhibition.
The event will run for two months at the gallery at 5 Margaret’s Buildings, showcasing the work of Lucienne Day, Marian Mahler, Mary Warren, Jacqueline Groag, Paule Vezelay, Jane Daniels, Diane Bell, Barbara Brown and Nicola Wood.
The group of female artists brought modern and contemporary art into the home through their innovative textile designs.
Gallery director Ashley Gray said: “From Bauhaus To Our House celebrates the new ideas and perspective that were to revolutionise 20th-century modern British design.
“Influences from Vienna’s Wiener Werkstatte, Gropius’s Bauhaus, European modernism and emerging abstract expressionism changed the face of British design.
“British designed textiles became a global phenomenon, a key economic driver winning new markets worldwide.
They truly democratised modern art by making it literally a part of the furniture.”
Prices for pieces will range from £400 to £2,500. For more information, visit www.graymca.com