A feast of fabric at the Barbican

The usually brutalist Barbican is somewhat softer at the moment, as the art gallery has been filled with soft textiles, looking at how fabrics have been used in art rather than fashion.It’s an exceptionally wide-ranging exhibition, from artworks that look almost like clothing to artworks that are so sculptural that it can be almost difficult to believe they’ve been made out of textiles.
The exhibition’s impetus is the notion that fabric as art has been overlooked for too long a