Mid-century modernism meets fashionable craft in Sussy Cazalet’s new tapestries

Artist Sussy Cazalet has adopted an eclectic path. A background learning printed textiles and inside structure at New York’s Parson Faculty of Design led to a profession in theatre design, earlier than Cazalet started to create her personal handwoven works.

A love of mid-century modernist design lies on the coronary heart of her creative apply, along with her travels throughout India, Africa and the Center East inspiring her textile works. In 2023, Cazelet unveiled 9 woven silk-and-wool tapestries at London’s Tristan Hoare Gallery, the fruits of a detailed, collaborative mission with weavers around the globe.

Cazalet is constructing on these foundations along with her second present on the gallery, Ascendance, right here translating watercolour research into fourteen handwoven tapestries. The outcomes are daring and modern, juxtaposing intuition with studied type to create hypnotic works.

Regardless of the trendy really feel, Cazalet attracts on conventional methodologies. She begins with watercolour on paper, which change into richly layered and tangible tapestries created utilizing flat-loom weaving and natural dyes. By portray in fibre, Cazelet imbues each bit with a uncooked edge, calling on cyclical symbols, such because the solar and moon, for an summary and geometric celebration of supplies. Works, displayed alongside watercolour research and classic furnishings chosen by Cazalet, change into immersive mediations on type.