Unbound Visionary Women

Two Temple Place is hosting an exhibition - Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles – telling the story of seven pioneering women who went against all established norms to create some of the richest, most diverse and international public collections of textiles in the UK today.

Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles celebrates women who saw beyond the purely functional, to reveal the extraordinary artistic, social and cultural importance of textiles. From the anthropological collections of traditional Balkan costume by Edith Durham, to the contemporary South Asian collection of Nima Poovaya-Smith, these women defied the ‘traditional’ concept of collecting – an activity still more often associated with men – and forged the way for textiles as crucial documents of social history as well as works of art in their own right.