Sheila Hicks: Narrative Thread
Caroline Roux, FT Weekend Magazine
May 2021
In 1977, the US artist Sheila Hicks took part in an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, alongside other major names such as Christo, Antoni Tàpies and Alexander Calder, displaying her fibre-based artworks. That same year, she worked on the set design for Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining, making hand-woven carpets for the interior of the Overlook Hotel. What might have been an unusual mix of activities for another artist was quite normal for her. In her career, she has crossed so many of the boundaries by which an artist is traditionally defined — sculpture, craft, fine art and commerce — that she’s basically wiped them out. […]