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...Installations by Hicks and Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña will accompany pieces by Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois and Jeffrey Gibson....
...Works from simultaneous movements across Germany and northern Europe also feature, as do later, figurative works, including a small painting by Tracey Emin and a sculpture by Antony Gormley....
...Its alumni include the artist Tracey Emin, the entrepreneur Sir James Dyson, and the architect Sir David Adjaye....
...“It no longer feels that I have to be in some conference centre somewhere, with all my wares on display,” says Nell Swift, a weaver who lives in a remote part of the Peak District....
...Abad erected a mobile studio wherever she went, learning from local makers and weavers....
...When he met Marthe in 1893, she lied about her age, being 24 not 16, and about her name, being a lowly weaver of artificial flowers into wreaths for funerals....
...What matters is not the hand of the maker, he says, but the weaver’s understanding of weave structures....
...Tracey Emin has her studio in a Victorian building on Tenter Ground, named after the 17th-century weavers who, after their cloth was dyed, would stretch their fabric across a “tent” frame....
...The embroidered world map was made in partnership with Afghan women weavers in 1983, four years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan....
...Chief players : Jeremy Zimmer, Jim Berkus, Tracey Jacobs, David Kramer....
...Over half the value of flotations completed in London’s main market last year were by overseas companies, says Richard Weaver, partner in the capital markets group at PwC....
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