The Art of Wallpaper:
Morris & Co. Exhibition
27 September 2024 - 23 February 2025
York Art Gallery showcases the archive of Morris & Co., the original home of the Arts & Crafts textile designer, William Morris, to celebrate the designer, his work, influence and legacy in UK wallpaper innovation. York is the first location to host this touring exhibition, presented by Dovecot Studios, the world-renowned tapestry studio in Edinburgh, in partnership with Morris & Co. Opening on Friday, 27 September 2024 at York Art Gallery, this major exhibition includes a new interpretation of William Morris’s wallpaper designs and highlights why Morris is regarded as one of the most successful pattern designers of all time and why his designs continue to play a part in our homes to this day.
York Art Gallery’s Curator of Ceramics, Dr Helen Walsh says:
“We are excited to have the opportunity to bring this exhibition to York Art Gallery and to showcase over a hundred of the most famous original wallpaper designs created by William Morris and his contemporaries. Morris was the iconic figurehead of the Arts & Crafts movement during the 19th century, whose designs were inspired by nature. He was a radical Socialist activist, campaigner and poet, who championed the importance of craft skills and workers’ rights in the face of mass industrialisation, aiming to democratise good design and make it accessible to the masses so that everyone could ‘have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’.”
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