Ann Sutton featured by @Tate

Ann Sutton was featured by Tate in their  #GetToKnow Instagram feature:

"Ann Sutton has experimented with the possibilities of weaving since the late 1950s. In the 1960s she was one of only three weavers in the United Kingdom (the others being Peter Collingwood and Tadek Beutlich) who were working in non-functional, experimental ways that engaged very directly with what fellow artists were exploring in painting and sculpture.

This artwork, titled ‘Diminishing Square Thickness, is woven using nails on a board and is made with three weights of cotton yarn. The yarn is thickest and coarsest around the outer edges of the grid, becoming lighter towards the central square. This gives the composition a sense of recessing space and a visual weightlessness towards the middle. Find Sutton’s work on free display at Tate Britain today.

🪢 Ann Sutton OBE, Diminishing Square Thickness, 1965 © Ann Sutton"