Louis Nye

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Currently Exhibitions:

MATASSA
CAA Beja, Portugal.
31/01 - 04/04 
Group textile show organised by Cortex Frontal.




Projects

De Cuando Jugábamos De Cuando Jugábamos
Matassa Matassa
Woodcut Weavings Woodcut Weavings
Project 1 Guarded Images
Kolding Weaving Residency II Kolding Weaving Residency II
Kolding Weaving Residency II Kolding Weaving Residency II
Dress Up, Dress Down Dress Up, Dress Down
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show Glasgow School of Art Degree Show
Eel Talk Eel Talk


Matassa
2026

Centro de Arqueologia e Artes de Beja, Portugal.
Group textile exhibition organised by Cortex Frontal as part of the Hypertextile residency project 2024-5.
 
Curated by Antonia Gaeta
Organised by Mercedes Vidal-Abarca and Diogo Ramalho
The Matassa exhibition, part of the Hypertextile project, presents textiles as a language and device for thought, exploring artistic processes developed in residencies in Portugal (2024–2025). Structured around the metaphor and concreteness of the matassa — a bundle of intertwined threads — the exhibition proposes a non-linear logic, marked by overlaps, accumulations and interdependencies between 34 artists. Visitors are invited to follow fragmentary paths, discover connections and inhabit a tangle that reveals textiles as a critical field for thinking about relationships, temporalities and ways of reinventing the present.

Close Contact, 2025
81 x 105cm
Linen, cotton, wool and polylinen
Handwoven Jacquard weaving

This artwork derives from a photographic contact sheet of a wedding photoshoot that I found in a second-hand store in Madrid. The image carries a sense of tension, obscurity and curiosity. While making this work, I was considering weaving’s inherent relationship to structure, tension and instability - qualities I noticed were also present in the contact sheet itself. I wanted to use the language of weaving to draw out these qualities: in some places a dense, strong weave structure supports the image, in other places double weave veils the image and in other places a looser structure disintegrates the image. Ultimately I wanted to create a dialogue between the woven image and the materiality of the weave as a way of gaining some new insight into the underlying tension present in the source image.

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