Now Open | Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now

🌟 Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now

🗓️ Now Open | 🕙 Open daily 10am – 5pm

Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now celebrates tapestry as a vibrant and evolving medium for the 21st century. Featuring more than 20 works created through collaborations between Dovecot Studios’ master weavers and leading artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Rachel Maclean and Hurvin Anderson, the exhibition explores the enduring relevance of tapestry today. Presented to coincide with the Bayeux Tapestry’s landmark return to the UK, the exhibition invites visitors to discover how contemporary artists are reimagining one of the world’s oldest art forms.

Discover how today’s artists are reimagining one of the world’s oldest art forms. ‘Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now’ invites you to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

Highlights include:

• Over 20 contemporary tapestries created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios
• A monumental new tapestry by Turner Prize-nominated artist Hurvin Anderson, commissioned to mark the 600th anniversary of Lincoln College, Oxford, before its permanent installation next year
• A tapestry version of David Hockney’s 1963 painting ‘Play within a Play’
• ‘The Garden Carpet’, created by Farshid Moussavi and Dovecot Studios for V&A Dundee
• Innovative works by Yinka Shonibare, Alberta Whittle, Rachel Maclean and Tania Kovats
• A programme of talks, tours and special events exploring tapestry’s past, present and future
  Time: Daily 10am to 5pm.

Admission: Pay What You Can. You can pay as much or as little as you like for your ticket or visit for free. Income from this exhibition will help the Gallery to put on new public exhibitions and support their education and conservation programmes.

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