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Process driven, meditative, repetitive. Over and over, a thread is pulled through a loom, paint is looped under and around itself, a sewing machine ticks away, embedding colour into a soft grounding. All this is pulled together by the artist’s guiding hand. In weaving, the hand is sentient. A muscle memory kicks in and the brain switches off, idling, while the body is in a state of constant motion, propelled by inertia. The artist starts the process, the hand completes it.

Within the Fold speaks, at first, to the physical details within folds of fabric, which the artists have embedded in …