ActionSpace artist Lasmin Salmon in ‘Soft Power: lives told through textile art’ at the RWA, Bristol.
Past Exhibition: 17 May – 10 August 2025
Location: Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1PX
Explore the work of ActionSpace artist Lasmin Salmon in the (now closed) group exhibition Soft Power: Lives Told Through Textile Art. Held at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), the exhibition brought together a range of contemporary, international artists who used textiles to tell deeply personal and collective stories. Through cloth, these artists explored identity, memory, and the journeys that shape us.
Featured artists included: Anurita Chandola, Mona Craven, Rachel Fallon, Sarah-Joy Ford, Enam Gbewonyo, Shelly Goldsmith, Pippa Hetherington, Kani Kamil, Sabine Kaner, Alice Kettle, Reiko Koga, Phillipa Lawrence, Lise Bjorne Linnert, Susie MacMurray, Alice Maher, Suzumi Noda, Jane Poulton, Margaret Nicholson, Paula Reason, Erin M Riley, Lasmin Salmon, Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui, Ellen Sharples, Kari Steihaug, Maryam Wahid, Audrey Walker.
Curated by world-renowned textile artist Professor Alice Kettle and international textiles curator Professor Lesley Millar MBE, Soft Power invited viewers to consider how fabric can become a powerful medium of expression.
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Images: ‘Soft Power: lives told through textile art’, RWA, 2025. Photo credit: Alastair Brookes/KoLAB Studios
