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Dierdrick Brackens: Woven Stories
24 January – 26 May 2025, The Holburne Museum, Bath
Four large squarish tapestries by Texan-born textile artist Diedrick Brackens are currently displayed at the Holburne Museum in Bath – his first solo show in the UK. A queer, Black American artist, Brackens was one of 51 international crafters to feature in the Barbican’s Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art last year. He was also one of several who withdrew from the exhibition in protest of the Gaza censorship row.
In Woven Stories, he has returned to the UK with recent work imbued with his signature motifs and ongoing preoccupations.The Black body is the most pronounced motif, translated as an almost life size silhouette. It is Brackens’s silhouette but simplified to the point of abstraction. Shorn of facial detail and anatomical features, the monochrome figure becomes a Black “everybody,” a symbol of Black identity. Brackens uses posed photographs of himself to arrive at a design where gesture and stance are legible in woven form. With his silhouette weavings, he claims a “creative kinship” with other artists of colour.
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