‘every somewhere’ returns to themes of place and local distinctiveness explored through wood, textile and organic materials. The featured artist-makers share an instinctive approach to making through lived experience, ordering and composing nature into new forms.

Maria Sigma
In December 2022, textile designer and weaver, Maria Sigma was invited by Make Hauser & Wirth to be Somerset’s inaugural artist-maker-in-residence. During this time, her research focused on discovering new patterns within the varied local landscape and sourcing natural materials from the Durslade Estate. Sigma’s new body of work develops themes from her ongoing collection, ‘Apricity – The Warmth Of The Sun In Winter’. Her wall pieces focus on texture and materiality, each one a woven landscape which embodies a unique harmony of form, a constant exchange between processed and raw materials.

Sigma’s approach is based on creating beautiful textiles through zero waste design and craftsmanship, high quality and sustainable natural fibres being key to this philosophy. She strongly believes that the importance of weaving must be highlighted. Fabrics reside in the everyday and inhabit almost every corner of a household, creating a sense of something familiar and beloved; they create a boundary between us and nature, the culture of the body and the external world.

Sigma studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK and since she graduated in 2014, has developed her own weaving practice in London, UK. In 2015 – 2016, she was the recipient of Cockpit Arts ‘Clothworkers’ Award. In 2017, she achieved investment support from The Prince's Trust and Virgin Start-Up Scheme. Sigma regularly hosts her ‘Weaving From Waste’ workshops which teach participants the techniques explored in her book ‘Weaving: the Art of Sustainable Textile Creation,’ published in 2020. She has exhibited as one of Design Nation’s twenty makers of ‘Exceptional Craft for Exceptional Times’ at Collect Art Fair, London, UK (2021); London Design Festival, London, UK, in partnership with Teer & Co at Planted (2021). Her recent collaborations include: Candice Lau x TOAST (2021); Selfridges, London, UK (2021); and London Craft Week at COS (2022).

DETAILS:

23 September - 18 November 2023

WED – SAT, 10 AM – 1 PM AND 2 – 4 PM

MAKE Stockwell House, 13 High Street, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0AB