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4 Sep

Matty Bovan to Present Ceiling-height Sweater at Now Gallery

Matty Bovan to Present Ceiling-height Sweater at Now Gallery
Clothier Matty Bovan, who took home last 12 months’s Woolmark Prize, is the most recent artist to take over the Now Gallery in London’s Greenwich Peninsula to present his art installation Ribbons. From Nov. 30 to Feb. 20, 2023, the gallery space shall be full of a ceiling-height hand-knitted sweater that invites visitors to explore the colourful tent-like structure and watch the experimental film “Ribbons,” which documented how Bovan created the large piece of knitwear. The space may even have a special soundscape and be full of scents of geranium and lavender. The commission goals to “reexamine their views on fashion, art, textiles and craft while encouraging them to dream and wander off within the extraordinary world of Matty Bovan,” the gallery...
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