Form Through Colour: Josef Albers, Anni Albers and Gary Hume

Over 20 hand-crafted rags, tapestries and fabric installations on show for the first time by three complementary textile artists.

Contemporary rug and fabric company Christopher Farr has collaborated with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Gary Hume to create new, limited-edition collections around each of the artists’ signature series. Over 20 hand-crafted rugs, tapestries and fabric installations will be on show for the first time offering visitors the chance to see textile art based on the original designs of three complementary colourists from the Bauhaus to Britart eras alongside each other. The exhibition has been conceived to showcase the innovative and imaginative use of colour in art, inspired by Josef Albers’ Interaction of Colour.  Each of the series in the exhibition will show a simple but staggering use of colour and reveal how Josef Albers’ design principles work across a range of mediums. Gary Hume’s breakthrough series of door paintings, which were first shown at Damien Hirst’s Freeze exhibition in 1988 and snapped up by Charles Saatchi, will feature on 13 one of a kind hand knotted rugs. The rugs will be exhibited alongside the first door painting Hume ever completed at college.