Warp Factor
Shonquis Moreno, Wallpaper
April 2011
There is a creative synaesthesia that marks American artist Sheila Hicks as a master: her tapestries are architecture, her architecture is sculpture, her sculptures are textiles, her textiles are paintings and photographs, and her photographs are colour studies. Coming of age in the late 1950s, when the gulf between design and art, and art and craft, was profound and seemingly intractable, Hicks refused any categorisation at all. […]