Loops
SUNNY BANK MILLS, LEEDS | 2025
Photography of exhibition Artist’s own · Photography of Artists Sunny Bank Mills
“Loops is a collaborative exhibition between Netherlands based textile artists Gea van Eck, Hanneke van Broekhoven and Monika Loster, and Yorkshire based artists Andi Walker, Hannah Robson and Jane Claire Wilson at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford. A large-scale collaborative artwork, Loops centres around the theme of cycles, circles and continuums and aims to showcase the artists’ exploration and embracing of the inherent tensions found whilst collaborating - a truly unique celebration of international collaboration and the lasting allure of textiles.” - Sunny Bank Mills
An international collaboration of cycles, circles & continuums
My initial inspiration came from the Mills’ connection to textiles and its legacy in cloth production. It was important for me to reference garments and the human body, acknowledging the intimate relationship between fabric and the forms it eventually clothes.”
One piece in the exhibition is an unmade suit, a conceptual nod to the Mills’ history of producing high-end suiting fabric. Although the Mills itself never manufactured finished garments, it crafted the raw materials that formed the backbone of this industry. The unmade suit symbolizes this untapped potential, capturing the tension between creation and absence, structure and fluidity.
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