![Sarah Myerscough Gallery is delighted to announce THREAD, a major international survey of woven work, open until 16 May 2026.--Ann Coddington is an international artist based in Illinois. She completed a Master’s of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Illinois, 1993. After working in the textile industry, she was Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University from 2004 to 2023. Selected solo shows include: Blind, at Jennings Kerr Gallery, Australia, 2025; Threads, Natural Fiber and Living Lines, at Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Center for Design and Material Culture, University of Wisconsin, 2024; and Twined, at Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, 2022. In 2022, she completed a large-scale commission titled Chrysalis, for the University of Illinois Department of Education. The artist has been recipient of numerous awards including: Degrees of Commitment: Climate, Ecosystems, and Society, Juror’s Award, 2023.The artist calls upon a range of techniques to create her work, including twining, netting and lashing - in her words, ‘elemental, physical, and tangible processes.’ Coddington’s fibre works consider corporeal form, particularly feminine embodiment and bodily silhouettes. Referring to ‘somatic memories’ expressed within her sculptural basketry, her pieces evoke, even directly resemble, bodies: organs, limbs, swollen stomachs, the curvature of a waist. In so doing, weaving becomes a sculptural, almost uncanny, practice. Coddington also highlights the dialogue between her works and the forms in which her small objects commune together when installed. Evoking found objects or talismans, her works are often installed in new combinations, further eliciting the fleshly sensitivity embedded in her practice. Ann CoddingtonConstellation, Set I, 2025Mixed FibresPhoto 1 by Gareth HackerPresented at THREAD, 2026The Schoolhouse18 Balderton StreetMayfairLondonW1K 6TG]()
Sarah Myerscough Gallery is delighted to announce THREAD, a major international survey of woven work, open until 16 May 2026.
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Ann Coddington is an international artist based in Illinois. She completed a Master’s of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Illinois, 1993. After working in the textile industry, she was Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University from 2004 to 2023. Selected solo shows include: Blind, at Jennings Kerr Gallery, Australia, 2025; Threads, Natural Fiber and Living Lines, at Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Center for Design and Material Culture, University of Wisconsin, 2024; and Twined, at Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, 2022. In 2022, she completed a large-scale commission titled Chrysalis, for the University of Illinois Department of Education. The artist has been recipient of numerous awards including: Degrees of Commitment: Climate, Ecosystems, and Society, Juror’s Award, 2023.
The artist calls upon a range of techniques to create her work, including twining, netting and lashing - in her words, ‘elemental, physical, and tangible processes.’ Coddington’s fibre works consider corporeal form, particularly feminine embodiment and bodily silhouettes. Referring to ‘somatic memories’ expressed within her sculptural basketry, her pieces evoke, even directly resemble, bodies: organs, limbs, swollen stomachs, the curvature of a waist. In so doing, weaving becomes a sculptural, almost uncanny, practice. Coddington also highlights the dialogue between her works and the forms in which her small objects commune together when installed. Evoking found objects or talismans, her works are often installed in new combinations, further eliciting the fleshly sensitivity embedded in her practice.
Ann Coddington
Constellation, Set I, 2025
Mixed Fibres
Photo 1 by Gareth Hacker
Presented at THREAD, 2026
The Schoolhouse
18 Balderton Street
Mayfair
London
W1K 6TG
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