Textile Culture Net X British Textile Biennial: online exhibition and panels

Susanne Khalil Yusef, detail of Café Disorient-We Want To Live, 2021, Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Photo by Flip Franssen.

This year, the British Textile Biennial (BTB) invited Textile Culture Net (TCN) to co-curate and develop a special online exhibition that expands the Biennial’s 2025 theme, of industrial production, synthetic cloth over the past century, the damage it has wrought, and what we can recover from alternative traditions through a global perspective.

Next week, join two free online panel discussions moderated by Laurie Peake, BTB’s Artistic Director, in which artists and experts expand on these themes and how textiles carry the traces of labour, industry, and nature:

Monday 20 October
Thursday 23 October

Attendance is free (limited seats), for more detailled information on the entire BTB program check out their Eventbrite

Meanwhile, the British Textile Biennial 2025 runs from 2 October to 2 November across East Lancashire, UK, with exhibitions, installations, talks, and events in historic textile venues.