Jack Arts

Poppy Nash & Fraser Taylor

Exploring the intersections of textiles, printmaking and archival research, Glasgow-based artist Poppy Nash’s latest work builds upon Disobedient Textiles, a research project in which Nash engaged archives and curators to investigate objects crafted by incarcerated women. Nash connects her practice with theirs by integrating text and motifs from their objects into layers of salvaged fabric scraps, digital embroidery, and screen printing.

Nash’s interest in entangling the mechanics of printmaking with the pliancy of textiles is shared by her friend and mentor Fraser Taylor, who has a longstanding interest in the co-constitutive relationship between graphic design, printmaking techniques, and the materiality of textiles. His work features printed textiles alongside thick, gestural oil marks layered onto collaged cardboard. Through a stark, monochromatic palette, fragmented curves and grids invoke the shadows of an arch or gable; the curve of a tunnel; the mullion of a window. 

JACK ARTS Scotland partnered with Nash and Taylor to take their new collaborative works to our sites across Edinburgh and Glasgow, ahead of their parallel solo exhibitions SEE / AND KNOW BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION and Unlikely Architectures at Patriothall Gallery in Edinburgh. Combining Taylor’s distinctive black lines with Nash’s textural embroidery the pair have overlaid their work to mimic the process of layering within screen printing. This series of nine new collaborative works bridge the intersections of their practices, bringing graphic marks and soft textures to public sites across the two cities.