Inside the works
Pigments Within Textile Sculpture: Soft Chamber, Threaded Keep, Silent Cocoon
Reclaimed crochet, natural pigments and the histories of textile labour in Soft Chamber, Threaded Keep and Silent Cocoon.
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Journal
On materials, memory and the stories behind my work.
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Hestia: Lace, Steel and the stories of a Home.
Lace, rebar steel and women’s textile labour come together in Hestia, a sculpture exploring home, care and resilience.
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Lace & materials
Lace in Contemporary Textile Art: Working with Reclaimed Fabrics
How lace and Semadaki fabrics become layered surfaces and sculptural forms in Hara Athanasopoulou’s work.
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Studio
Making Textile Art: Repetition and a Work in Progress
Inside the slow, physical process of textile-making, where repetition gives materials form.
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Research
Weaving, Myth and Voice: Arachne and Philomela in My Practice
How stories of Arachne and Philomela entered Hara’s research into women and textile art.
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Materials
A Textile Artist’s Materials: Thread, Fabric, Steel and Concrete
The physical qualities of the materials Hara returns to in textile art, drawing and sculpture.
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Memory
Greek Textile Traditions: From My Grandmothers’ Hands to My Own
A personal account of learning embroidery, crochet and knitting in Greece, and carrying that knowledge into contemporary art.
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Materials
From Textile to Sculpture: Thread, Form and Space
How textile techniques move from the intimacy of the hand into contemporary sculpture.
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Studio
Inside My Athens Studio: A Textile Artist’s Practice
Greek textile artist Hara Athanasopoulou on working between fabric, drawing and sculpture in her Athens studio.
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Recognition
Receiving the Jan Roëde Award 2024
Event date:Receiving the Jan Roëde Award for Threads of Timeless Tales at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
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Graduation
Studying Fine Arts at KABK: My Graduation in 2024
Event date:Hara reflects on how her studies at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague shaped her practice.
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Graduation
Threads of Timeless Tales: Textile Art, Women and Memory
Event date:The textile research and installation behind Hara Athanasopoulou’s 2024 graduation project.
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