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Demons, Yarns and Tales 14 Tapestries by contemporary artists Kara Walker, Grayson Perry, Beatriz Milhazes and Fred Tomaselli are among fifteen internationally renowned artists who are exploring a medium foreign to their usual practice, experimenting within the lost world of wall-hanging tapestry for the exhibition, Demons, Yarns and Tales. Three years in the making, the tapestries in the exhibition address subjects that range from fictive landscapes and architectural abstraction to fashion and flora while considering the politics of race, gender,international conflict and the environment. Demons, Yarns and Tales is the first show to be presented by new visual arts commissioning organisation, Banners of Persuasion, established by Christopher and Suzanne Sharp. The exhibition will tour to venues in New York and Miami, to coincide with Art Miami Basel in December of this year. The exhibition rakes place in the building of what was, until two years ago, Express Dairies' London milk depot. Now for the first time its expansive warehouse and garage spaces will be open to the public as a gallery. For information visit www.bannersofpersuasion.com |