INTERLACED

INTERLACED – Opening Day Celebration

📍 Venue: All Saints Church(The Painted Church), Jesus Ln, Cambridge CB5 8BP

📅 Date & Time: Saturday, 8th March | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

🎟 Tickets: Free (RSVP Required)

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Join us for the grand opening of INTERLACED, an exhibition that weaves together the rich traditions of textile art with the unlimited possibilities of digital media. Hosted in Cambridge’s stunning All Saints' Church, this event is a unique opportunity to meet the curators and artists.

Drinks and nibbles will be provided, so please reserve your free tickets to let us know you are coming and bring your most fashionable knitwear!

If you have any questions, enquiries or access needs, please contact [email protected]

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About INTERLACED:

INTERLACED grapples with materiality by contrasting the physicality and sensory presence of traditional textiles and the memory and archival potential of digital technology. This dialogue between the physical and virtual is crucial in questioning how we experience and interpret art, the process of creation and presentation, and what constitutes ‘matter’ in a world increasingly shaped by technology.

The exhibition features the works of 17 exceptional artists working across a range of mediums and techniques, merging the tactility of tapestries, embroidery, and weaving with the ethereality of digital works and augmented realities.

Curated by Anam Cara, the art studio of Solen Fluzin (Sol) and James Alec Hardy, INTERLACED looks at how these mediums coexist, complement, and challenge one another. Alongside the physical exhibition hosted in All Saints’ Church and open every weekend in March (Fri-Sat-Sun 1pm-5pm), Anam Cara presents a digital version hosted online that anyone can visit anytime. Minecraft connoisseurs might appreciate the pixelated aesthetic of the open-source metaverse platform ‘Voxels’ on which it was built.

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About The Painted Church:

All Saints' Church, a hallmark of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Cambridge, offers a striking and relevant location for the exhibition. Known as The Painted Church, the building is among the finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture in the UK, designed by George Frederick Bodley. Inside, surfaces are adorned with intricate stencilling and hand-painted motifs by Frederick Leach’s Cambridge-based firm. The church’s rich visual and historical context aligns with the exhibition’s exploration of tradition and innovation. The Friends of The Painted Church have been instrumental in preserving this gem, keeping its beauty and history alive for all to enjoy.

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Exhibited Artists:

• Anna Lucia blends algorithmic design with textile traditions, creating generative digital and fabric works that unite code and materiality.
• Anna Perach crafts tufted, wearable sculptures exploring folklore and mythology, female archetypes, identity, gender, and performance.
• Brigitte Stepputtis explores fashion, identity, and transformation through photography, textiles, and digital 3D technology.
• Célia Lautard revives ancient weaving techniques, blending history, crafts, and archaeology into contemporary wearable textile art.
• Egle Saka experiments with analog glitch aesthetics and new media, crafting audiovisual experiences that embrace imperfection.
• Jane Campbell reimagines textile art by incorporating mixed media, upcycled materials, and electronic waste into weaving.
• Jenny Mcllhaton reinterprets mythology and the divine feminine through sculptural installations, ritualistic making, and reverent recycling.
• Justine Ellis combines screen printing with hand-drawn designs, infusing mid-century influences into striking printed artworks.
• Laura Shepherd fuses textile techniques with digital art, crafting immersive sculptures, AR experiences, and motion graphics.
• Liria Pristine integrates advanced knitting technology with textile craft, creating intricate woven designs and cinematic costumes.
• Mary Burns' Jacquard-woven portraits are an artistic and spiritual remembrance of Wisconsin’s Native elder women, integrating stories and cultural symbolism.
• Mythili Thevendrampillai's silkscreen prints and saree installations weave personal memories with cultural heritage, honouring maternal presence and remembrance.
• Robin Kang's woven tapestries integrate computer circuitry with ancient textile traditions, exploring technology’s spiritual and ecological dimensions.
• Rose Forsyth-Jackson fuses textile traditions with digital innovation, using GANs and blockchain to reimagine wool felting and painting aesthetics.
• Syberweerd (Rujunko Keiko Pugh) encodes cultural motifs into algorithmic art, weaving programming languages and blockchain into dynamic digital tapestries.
• Suzannah Pettigrew unravels shifting realities through generative photo-sculptures, informed by digital interfaces and trace data.
• Tribute Brand integrate generative algorithms on the blockchain with zero-waste knitting, transforming Chromie Squiggle code into unique physical and digital wearables.

The poster artwork for INTERLACED uses still images captured from Robin Kang's video work "Transmission Trance" 2016.

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Anam Cara would like to thank:

Pat Robinson, Cathy Hadridge, and Mary Kempski (Friends of The Painted Church), Eva Weinstein (Queens’ Arts Festival), Gordon Mackenzie and Abi Moore (Rowan Arts Centre), the Arts Society Cambridge, the Churches Conservation Trust

All our collaborating artists, mentors, friends, and family!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

All Saints Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, United Kingdom