London Craft Week: Dalia James - Chromatic Threads, Crafted by Hand
There’s a snap, a fizz, an electric brightness to Dalia James’ woven artworks that feels like opening the windows wide on a spring morning. Part geometry, part joy, and entirely intentional, her pieces hum with colour and structure - an instinctive celebration of weaving as both craft and contemporary art.
Dalia James in her studio. Photo Credit: James Champion
This May, as part of Masters and Makers at Atelier Comó for London Craft Week, Dalia brings her dynamic approach to textiles to an audience hungry for bold voices in craft. Based at Cockpit Studios in Bloomsbury, her studio practice balances precision and spontaneity. A graduate of Loughborough University’s Woven Textiles programme, Dalia’s artistic foundation is deeply rooted in the technical, but her work never feels constrained. Instead, it pops - rhythmically composed works that nod to Bauhaus cool while pulsing with a warm modern soul.
Dalia James, Yellow Red Blue I, II, 2023. Photo Credit: James Champion
At the heart of her practice is colour. Not just as decoration, but as language. “Colour is such an integral part of my work,” she says, “that I was curious to focus on the root of colour.” Works like Red, Blue, Yellow I and II do just that - stripping things back to the primaries to explore what happens when you build complexity from clarity...
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Image Credits:
Lead Image: Dalia James, Yellow, Red, Blue I (Detail), 2023.
All other images as credited in photo captions.