Mick Lindberg: Faces of Hope

Mick Lindberg: Faces of Hope

Celebrating the gallery’s fifteenth anniversary this March, David Simon Contemporary is delighted to present Mick Lindberg’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. This series of compositions in textiles has been twelve months in the making. Over this period, the world has seen an extraordinary time, which has prompted the artist to explore the many ways in which we seek HOPE: ‘Some ask for guidance through animal spirits; some seek healing through prayers and religious charm’, Lindberg muses, ‘others connect to the Zodiac night sky, or look for answers in the mysteries of Tarot cards. In the stitches of my images, I hope that the layers within each piece, that other-worldly essence, will reach the imagination that each viewer possesses.”

The unique work by this Swedish-born artist depicts narratives in an almost painterly manner, making use of pattern and texture from her archive of vintage and antique fabrics. At the same time, the quality of stitching and intricate layering of materials makes each piece an exquisitely finished accomplishment. The faces that appear in Lindberg’s compositions are engaging and this is an exhibition that will not fail to arouse an emotional response and to instill a sense of hope.

David Simon February 2021

Blue Fox Dreaming, textile, 102 x 62cm

Love in the Time of Corona, textile, 96 x 50cm

However the Pack Parts, Still Hold the Queen of Hearts, textile, 85 x 65cm

Chapeau & Cache Coeur, textile, 95 x 72cm

Matisse’s Last Muse, textile, 100 x 62cm

The First Lesson in the Secrets of Blood, textile, 70 x 70cm

The Fox that Stayed for Dinner, textile 58 x 40cm

Miss Mary’s Many Meows, textile, 90 x 60cm

The Sparrow that Sang in B-Minor, textile, 92 x 66cm

The Silent Siren, textile, 80 x 76cm

The Peacock’s Wife, textile, 92 x 54cm

Santa Lucia of the Woods, textile, 70 x 55cm

To Carry Your Wings of Hope, textile, 100 x 70cm

The Lesson of the Moth, textile, 78 x 62cm

Silence Gives Answers, textile, 115 x 66cm

She Carried the Sun in her Hands, textile, 116 x 78cm

La Luna, textile, 116 x 78cm

Aries, textile, 116 x 80cm

Capricorn, textile, 116 x 85cm

Gemini, textile, 116 x 74cm

Leo, textile, 116 x 83cm

Scorpio, textile, 116 x 83cm

Virgo, textile, 116 x 74cm

Mick Lindberg, born in Sweden in 1950, learned the art of needlework

from her mother and grandmother. Throughout her life, her love of textiles and fashion has influenced her career choices, first as a successful model in the 1960s, later as a photographer and textile artist. She has held numerous solo exhibitions in London, as well as in New Mexico, New York and Bath.

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Fox Talbot Museum, “Windows” exhibition Photographers Gallery, London. Print Room “The Tired Tulip” solo show Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, group show Portofolio Gallery London, Christmas Exhibition, group show Portofolio Gallery London, touring group show, “The Female” Zelda Cheatle Gallery London “Shrines & Boxes”, solo show London Festival Hall South Bank Show, sroup show, “Icons” Photofusion Gallery London, “Fusion”, group show England & Co Gallery London, “Art in Boxes”, group show Owings-Dewey Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico, group show Nation Portrait Gallery London, John Kobal Portrait Award, group exhibition Zelda Cheatle Gallery London, “Shrines”, solo show Owings- Dewy Gallery Santa Fe New Mexico, “A Book, A Box”, solo show Howard Green Gallery New York, “Displaced” A Series of Photogravures solo show Royal Photographic Society, Bath, “Into the Light” International Travelling Group Show: The Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall Calcagrafia, Madrid Metropole Art Centre, London Zelda Cheatle Gallery London “Displaced” solo show Pamuk Bank, Istanbul “Alchemy” group show Zelda Cheatle “15 x 15” group show Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath “Textile Paintings” solo show Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath, “Stitched Stories” solo show Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath group show Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath “The Eclectic Eye”, group show Brownsword Hepworth Gallery, London “Zodiacs - Stitched Stars” solo show David Simon Contemporary, Castle Cary “SEW the Seeds” solo show David Simon Contemporary, Castle Cary “Pastures Green”, group show David Simon Contemporary, Castle Cary “Faces of Hope”, solo show

There is a Candle in Your Heart Ready to be Kindled, textile, 86 x 116cm

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