Sheila Hicks: Ravelling and Unravelling
Blaire Dessent, TL Magazine
August 2020
“No place in the world would be alien to Sheila Hicks. Her particular sensitivity absorbs and selects, from each voyage of discovery, experiences, and visions that she stores in her mind’s eye for some future use.”
When Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen wrote these words in their seminal book about textile based art in 1973, Sheila Hicks was a young artist establishing her career, but they could be easily applied to Sheila Hicks in 2019. Prescient words for sure, yet it’s clear that they both saw the force that lay within this artist; not just the talent, but the intuitive ease with which Hicks makes connections, uses thread to tell a story and translates her creative vision through the materials. […]