INTERVIEW: After realising she would never have children, artist Ptolemy Mann found herself challenging the patriarchal art ...
“The act of hand weaving and dyeing cloth is extremely labour intensive – it can take months to make one piece,” says British artist Ptolemy Mann, who has been creating textile works of ...
The first monograph on British artist Ptolemy Mann is a celebration of her unique weaving and painting practice and extraordinary use of colour. Thread Painting is an original exploration of the ...
Has anyone behind ACE’s warning about ‘political statements’ been to Unravel? As this tumultuous show about textile art proves, even a quilt can tell a story of outrage, exploitation and ...
Anni Albers, “Red Meander,” 1954. Linen and cotton. (Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art/Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society, New York/Private ...
It was like a bomb went off.” The artist Ptolemy Mann is describing to me the moment when she first put paint to paper. It was mid-September 2018. She was approaching her 46th birthday.