Sheila Hicks: Woven Wonders
Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross, London, United Kingdom
May 27 – October 16, 2022
Sheila Hicks at Woven Wonders, 2022, King’s Cross, London, UK. Photo by John Sturrock.
King’s Cross presents Woven Wonders, a new, vibrant site-specific installation by Sheila Hicks on view in Coal Drops Yard through October 16.
Woven Wonders uses repurposed soft materials that converse with the environment and respond to the natural forces, including wind, rain, sunshine, clouds, shifting shadows and glimpses of sun rays; providing a space to walk around, sit, read or contemplate.
It is a sculpture in dialogue with the architectural environment in which it exists, responding to the carefully restored Victorian architecture by British architect Thomas Heatherwick’s studio. The sculpture is suspended like the warp threads of a colossal loom between the two old coal storage buildings on the east and west sides of the Coal Drops Yard site.
Hicks’ nod to the textile industry of the Victorian era connects the site’s past with the present, the artist installing ribbons of colored fabrics criss-crossing across the space of Coal Drops Yard.
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