{"id":56753,"date":"2024-03-01T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=56753"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:20:12","slug":"huge-textile-exhibit-leaving-sheffield-cathedral-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/huge-textile-exhibit-leaving-sheffield-cathedral-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge textile exhibit leaving Sheffield Cathedral on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheffield Cathedral bids farewell to one of the largest ever textile projects by a single artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Threads Through Creation\u2019 is the second textile instalment toured by Jacqui Parkinson. Her 12 cloth panels are scheduled to tour through seven cathedrals around England, stopping next in Blackburn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work is meant to be a retelling of \u2018God\u2019s Creation\u2019, with its unique quality of racial diversity in some of her panels, especially in the Adam and Eve depiction. Mrs Parkinson said: \u201cIf you look at renaissance art, then you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s a lot of stereotyped images of everything, so my idea was just that we live in a world and we don&#8217;t know what they looked like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The choice to have the exhibition be shown in cathedrals was primarily a space issue, seeing as her project required a large venue, but besides the religious themes in her artwork she found the artistic nature in these old buildings to compliment her collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cIf you look at stained glass with all the colour and its black lines, it&#8217;s telling a story. There&#8217;s a great resonance between the stained glass windows and my work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition is the second project that she has toured in the UK, the first being \u2018Threads Through Revelation\u2019, which visited 14 cathedrals from 2016 to 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the work is tedious, her passion keeps her motivated. She said: \u201cI\u2019m not very patient, I just have to have tenacity. I like the creative side of these projects, and of course what else would I be doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI spent a lot of time looking at the story, trying to work out what images I want to look at in detail, but I liked to put symbolism there for people who just like that sort of thing like me. I just enjoy playing with ideas as well as playing with images.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The volunteers at Sheffield Cathedral expressed that they were sad to see it leaving soon, but they are happy that it was such a popular event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/addedmedia-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/addedmedia-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/addedmedia-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/addedmedia-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Cathedral bids farewell to one of the largest ever textile projects by a single artist. \u2018Threads Through Creation\u2019 is the second textile instalment toured by Jacqui Parkinson. 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