Deaf Artist-led BSL Tour of ‘Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles’

Join Deaf artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq on a BSL Tour of ‘Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles’.

An ambitious group exhibition exploring how artists are using textiles in surprising and radical ways. Illuminating the diverse roles textiles play in contemporary artistic practice, the exhibition brings together artists who take the intimate and domestic quality of textiles and transform them into theatrical, bold, unsettling and humorous artworks that inspire, challenge and offer new ways of thinking.

Featuring work created predominantly over the last decade by 13 UK-based artists, Material Worlds highlights their deep awareness of textiles’ cultural history and a shared desire to challenge its traditional associations, testing the material’s expansive and subversive potential. The familiar fabric of everyday life is reimagined into the unexpected—the ordinary made extraordinary—to reflect on ideas of gender, identity, community, race, technology, and myth, demonstrating the medium’s potential to transform in the hands of different artists.

About the tour

Rubbena will be leading the tour in British Sign Language (BSL) capturing the curator’s insight into the exhibitions for the participants. A BSL Interpreter will also attend.

Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq is a London based painter and installation artist. She has exhibited internationally in New York, South Korea, Canada, Paris, Sweden and the UK. Over the past few years she has led BSL tours for galleries such as the Hayward, Tate, Wallace Collections and the Science Gallery.

This friendly tour is free, and open to everyone. The tour will be Deaf-led and tailored for Deaf audiences.