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Janis Jefferies
Janis Jefferies is Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts. She is an artist, writer and curator. For 30 years, she worked at Goldsmiths, University of London leading textile, art and research programmes. She has published and exhibited internationally since 1980. 2019, The Enchantment of Cloth was shown at the Central de Diseo, Madrid (August) and at the 5th International Art and Science Exhibition and Symposium co-hosted by Tsinghua University and National Museum of China, in Beijing China (October). Her publications include, 2020. Jefferies & Weinberg. “Around the World in 80 Biennials: Curating Lausanne, Hangzhou, Kaunas,” in A Companion to Textile Culture, ed. Jennifer Harris. Wiley Publishers, 2019 “Textile Modernism: Transcultural readings of Maryn Varbanov and abstract weaving from East to East, from Local to Global,” in ed. Professor Dr. Bu Dogramaci (Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München). Textile Modernism for Bohlau Verlag’s “mode global” series in German and English and 2019 “Polish Ghosts,” in Abakanowicz: Metamorfizm/Metamorphism, ed. Marta Koweskla, Centralne Muzeum Włokiennictwa w Łodzi, 2018. In 2019, Jefferies curated Breaching Borders, the National exhibition of Polish Tapestry, City Art Gallery, Lodz, in 2020 and 2022 she has been working with bienal de arte têxtil contemporânea contemporary textile art biennia, Guimarães, Portugal. She is currently co chief editor (with Dr Vivienne Richmond), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles, 10 volumes, expected 2024.