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The exhibition, Jann Haworth: Close Up, will feature key works including Cowboy (1964), part of Pallant House Gallery’s collection of British pop art, and Old Lady II (1967) which are part of a range of soft sculpture works Haworth created in the 1960s.
She recalls: “What thrilled me about cloth was that in the face of the air of male superiority at the Slade – I knew a whole language of expression that my male colleagues had no inkling of. I knew the language of cloth inside out. I knew how to turn two-dimensional flat fabric into any shape that I needed to create a 3-D object/figure/concept. I knew this opened the door to a vast territory of expression.”
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