ActionSpace artist Lasmin Salmon exhibits in ‘Soft Power: lives told through textile art’ at the RWA, Bristol, UK.
17 May – 10 August 2025
Open: Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1PX
Tickets: from £5.45 – £9.90
Private view: Friday 16 May, 6 – 8 pm (speeches 8:45 pm)
Explore the work of ActionSpace artist Lasmin Salmon in the group exhibition Soft Power: Lives Told Through Textile Art. Taking place at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), the exhibition brings together a range of contemporary, international artists who use textiles to tell deeply personal and collective stories. Through cloth, these artists explore identity, memory, and the journeys that shape us.
Featured artists include: 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 invites viewers to consider how fabric can become a powerful medium of expression.
Complementing this exhibition is a collaboration with Bristol Refugee Artists Collective (BRAC) and Dorcas Dress Project (DDP) to offer a series of free creative workshops with refugees across Bristol. These sessions will culminate in a collaborative textile installation, presented alongside an interactive display exploring empowerment through textiles in the RWA’s Link Space.
Click here to reserve your place for Soft Power: Curators in Conversation, 16 May.
Learn more about the exhibition
Images:
1. Cushion Quilt, Thread, Elysium Gallery, 2021. Photo credit: Hew Maddock.
2. Lasmin Salmon standing in front of ‘Rug’. Image courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace. Photo credit: Charlotte Hollinshead.
