Sacred Art from the Forest : London Craft Week

The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery has always sought to upset conventions and break down barriers: between Western and Non-Western Art; between the Contemporary and the Timeless, and between Fine Art and Craft.

Since its inception in 1988, the gallery has built an international reputation for its ground-breaking commitment to the ‘Applied Arts’, giving debut exhibitions to jewellers, ceramicists, dress-designers, textile makers. Rebecca Hossack was the first gallerist in the UK to exhibit the woven-pandanus artefacts of aboriginal Australia, to show the embroidered textiles of the African Bushmen, and the mud-drawings of the Bihari women of India.

During London Craft Week the gallery will be showcasing the range and diversity of cultural invention with a suite of decorated bark-cloths from the remote Omie people of PNG, an important historical collection of Guatemalan ‘hondas’ (ingeniously carved slingshots), and a display of Balinese textiles and jewellery by the acclaimed American-born artist-designer, Lou Zeldis (1944-2012).