Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
Sculptural forms in the shape of a series of benches

Glasgow School of Art

In this playful interdisciplinary work Nielson responded to Sophie Taeuber-Arp's (1889-1943) text Remarks on Teaching Decorative Design (1922) for a series of drawings on paper.

For the first 15 years of Taeuber-Arp's career she taught Design and Embroidery at The Zurich School of Art and Craft and in the text she showed how to develop textile design. A rare insight into her creativity method, it was translated into English for the first time by Nielson. Taeuber-Arp saw applied and fine art as equals, despite the art world relegating textiles, a 'feminine' form of craft, to the sidelines.