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URL:https://discoverburnley.co.uk/whatson/british-textile-biennial-2025-sa
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SUMMARY:British Textile Biennial 2025 - Sarah Rosalena: Standard Candle and
  Expanding Axis
DESCRIPTION:The British Textile Biennial returns to Queen Street Mill in 20
 25. British Textile Biennial is a free festival of contemporary art\, comm
 issioning artists and designers from all over the world to make work inspi
 red by the context and legacy of the textile industry in East Lancashire a
 nd its global impact\, often in the places that were created by it.\n\nThi
 s year's exhibitions explore invention and innovation in textile productio
 n\; through indigenous knowledge to space-age technology\, from the earlie
 st form of shelter\, the tent\, to space suits\, and from plant-based dyes
  to the first polymers.\n\nAt Queen Street Mill you'll be able to see Sara
 h Rosalena's "Standard Candle and Expanding Axis". Rosalena works between 
 traditional craft traditions and emerging technology\, breaking boundaries
  through her hybrid forms rooted in Indigenous cosmologies\, re-interprete
 d through digital tools and her hand. These works were made during a resid
 ency at Mount Wilson Observatory in California drawing parallels between t
 he use of so-called ‘low skill’ labour - women in weaving as Jacquard 
 pattern readers and women in physics as “computers”. Here\, visitors c
 an explore Rosalena's work\, and also see a 19th-century Jacquard loom\, w
 itness demonstrations of historic textile machinery\, and experience the o
 riginal Lancashire Looms in action—still in-situ since the mill’s open
 ing in 1895\, offering a rare and immersive glimpse into Britain’s texti
 le heritage.\n\nAfter experiencing the artwork\, visitors are warmly encou
 raged to explore the rest of the mill and discover its remarkable heritage
  first-hand.
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CATEGORIES:Burnley Town Centre,Community,Free To Attend,Kids and
 Families,Museums and Heritage,Rainy Day,Showcase Events
LOCATION:Queen street Mill Textile museum\, Queen Street\, Harle Syke\, Bur
 nley\, BB10 2XH\, United Kingdom
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