Space in Between
Space in Between
London Design Festival 2026
Presented by Iris Lin & Sidney Liu
London Design Festival 2026
Presented by Iris Lin & Sidney Liu
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About the Exhibition
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About the Artist
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Space in Between brings together two Taiwanese artists, whose practices explore the relationships between material, memory, and place through contemporary textile practices.
Working from distinct perspectives yet sharing a deep sensitivity towards material processes, the exhibition creates a dialogue between natural fibres, weaving, landscape, and making. Rather than presenting textiles as finished objects, Space in Between invites visitors to experience them as living records of observation, transformation, and cultural exchange.
Through installations, material experiments, workshops, and tea gatherings, the exhibition offers a space to slow down, notice subtle changes, and reflect on the connections between people, materials, and the environments they inhabit.
Space in Between explores the relationships between landscape, material, memory, and making through the practices of two Taiwanese artists.
Although their approaches differ, both artists begin with materials that carry cultural and environmental significance. Tea-dyed wool, bamboo, fibre, and thread become more than physical media—they become ways of observing, translating, and responding to lived experience.
The exhibition invites visitors to slow down and engage with materials not only visually, but through touch, conversation, and participation. By bringing together installation, craft, workshops, and tea gatherings, Space in Between proposes textile as a medium through which people, places, and memories can be connected.
Exhibition
Space in Between
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Tea Gathering
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Exhibition
Space in Between
Workshop
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Tea Gathering
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Space in Between explores the spaces that exist between people, materials, landscapes,
and memories.
The exhibition considers making not simply as a process of production, but as a way of observing,
translating, and responding to the world. Through textile installations and material experimentation,
familiar materials become carriers of experience, inviting visitors to slow down and
engage with subtle transformations that often go unnoticed.
About the Exhibition
Space in Between is presented as part of London Design Festival 2026, bringing together the practices of Taiwanese artists Iris Lin and Sidney Liu.
Although each artist works with textiles in different ways, both are interested in how materials carry traces of place, memory, and lived experience. Their works emerge through careful observation, making, and experimentation, transforming fibres into forms
that invite new ways of seeing and sensing.
For Iris Lin, textile becomes a method of translation. Drawing from field research, natural dyeing, and material experimentation, her practice explores how encounters with landscapes, plants, and everyday experiences can be transformed into tactile and spatial forms. Wool dyed with tea and botanical materials becomes both a record of observation and a medium through which visitors are encouraged to engage with place through multiple senses.
For Sidney Liu,
Alongside the exhibition, a programme of workshops and tea gatherings extends these ideas beyond the gallery, inviting visitors to participate
through making, conversation, and shared experiences.
Rather than offering fixed narratives, Space in Between proposes the exhibition as an open space for attention—where material, memory, and
environment meet, and where new relationships can emerge through observation and participation.
Space in Between is presented as part of London Design Festival 2026, bringing together the practices of Taiwanese artists Iris Lin and Sidney Liu.
Although each artist works with textiles through distinct material languages, both are interested in how materials carry traces of place, memory, and cultural experience. Their works emerge through careful observation, making, and experimentation, transforming fibres and natural materials into forms that invite new ways of seeing, sensing, and relating.
For Iris Lin, textile becomes a method of translation. Drawing from field research, natural dyeing, and material experimentation, her practice explores how encounters with landscapes, plants, and everyday experiences can be transformed into tactile and spatial forms. Wool dyed with tea and botanical materials becomes both a record of observation and a medium through which visitors are encouraged to engage with place through multiple senses.
Sidney Liu reimagines the language of weaving through the use of bamboo, a material deeply embedded in Taiwan’s cultural landscape. Deconstructing traditional weaving systems and combining them with Western embroidery techniques, she challenges the boundaries between craft and contemporary practice. Rather than simply reinterpreting traditional weaving, Liu recontextualises cultural heritage, transforming material, structure, and inherited techniques into a new textile vocabulary.
Together, their practices create a dialogue between natural fibres, woven structures, and material transformation. Rather than offering fixed narratives, Space in Between proposes the exhibition as an open space for attention—where landscape, memory, tradition, and material meet through making and observation.
Alongside the exhibition, a programme of workshops and tea gatherings extends these ideas beyond the gallery, inviting visitors to participate through making, conversation, and shared experiences.
Sidney Liu
Sidney Liu is a Taiwanese artist and spatial designer whose multidisciplinary practice examines the intersections of material, craft, and spatial experience. Rooted in product design and informed by textile practice, her work spans textiles, ceramics, and installation, exploring how traditional techniques can be reimagined through contemporary making.
Rather than treating craft as a fixed cultural inheritance, Liu approaches it as an evolving language—one shaped by experimentation, material research, and cross-cultural dialogue. Through this process, she creates works that bridge design, art, and craft while opening new possibilities for material expression.
Iris Lin
Iris Lin is a Taiwanese designer and artist whose practice bridges design and artistic research through material exploration, participatory experiences, and spatial installations. Working across textiles, natural dyeing, workshops, and field research, she investigates how observation can be translated into tangible experiences that connect people with places, materials, and one another.
Rather than separating design from artistic research, Lin approaches both as complementary ways of understanding and responding to the world. Her work transforms everyday encounters into tactile experiences that invite reflection, participation, and new ways of sensing our relationship with the environment.
Media & Exhibition Enquiries
Iris Lin
Artist & Exhibition Coordinator
iris.ytng.lin@gmail.com
Media & Exhibition Enquiries
Iris Lin
Artist & Exhibition Coordinator
iris.ytng.lin@gmail.com
Iris Lin
Iris Lin is a Taiwanese designer and artist whose practice bridges design and artistic research through material exploration, participatory experiences, and spatial installations. Working across textiles, natural dyeing, workshops, and field research, she investigates how observation can be translated into tangible experiences that connect people with places, materials, and one another.
Rather than separating design from artistic research, Lin approaches both as complementary ways of understanding and responding to the world. Her work transforms everyday encounters into tactile experiences that invite reflection, participation, and new ways of sensing our relationship with the environment.
Sidney Liu
Sidney Liu is a Taiwanese artist and spatial designer whose multidisciplinary practice examines the intersections of material, craft, and spatial experience. Rooted in product design and informed by textile practice, her work spans textiles, ceramics, and installation, exploring how traditional techniques can be reimagined through contemporary making.
Rather than treating craft as a fixed cultural inheritance, Liu approaches it as an evolving language—one shaped by experimentation, material research, and cross-cultural dialogue. Through this process, she creates works that bridge design, art, and craft while opening new possibilities for material expression.
Space in Between brings together two Taiwanese artists, whose practices explore the relationships between material, memory, and place through contemporary textile practices.
Working from distinct perspectives yet sharing a deep sensitivity towards material processes, the exhibition creates a dialogue between natural fibres, weaving, landscape, and making. Rather than presenting textiles as finished objects, Space in Between invites visitors to experience them as living records of observation, transformation, and cultural exchange.
Through installations, material experiments, workshops, and tea gatherings, the exhibition offers a space to slow down, notice subtle changes, and reflect on the connections between people, materials, and the environments they inhabit.
Space in Between is presented as part of London Design Festival 2026, bringing together the practices of Taiwanese artists Iris Lin and Sidney Liu.
Although each artist works with textiles in different ways, both are interested in how materials carry traces of place, memory, and lived experience. Their works emerge through careful observation, making, and experimentation, transforming fibres into forms
that invite new ways of seeing and sensing.
For Iris Lin, textile becomes a method of translation. Drawing from field research, natural dyeing, and material experimentation, her practice explores how encounters with landscapes, plants, and everyday experiences can be transformed into tactile and spatial forms. Wool dyed with tea and botanical materials becomes both a record of observation and a medium through which visitors are encouraged to engage with place through multiple senses.
For Sidney Liu,
Alongside the exhibition, a programme of workshops and tea gatherings extends these ideas beyond the gallery, inviting visitors to participate
through making, conversation, and shared experiences.
Rather than offering fixed narratives, Space in Between proposes the exhibition as an open space for attention—where material, memory, and
environment meet, and where new relationships can emerge through observation and participation.
Space in Between explores the spaces that exist between people, materials, landscapes,
and memories.
The exhibition considers making not simply as a process of production, but as a way of observing,
translating, and responding to the world. Through textile installations and material experimentation,
familiar materials become carriers of experience, inviting visitors to slow down and
engage with subtle transformations that often go unnoticed.
Sidney Liu
Sidney Liu is a Taiwanese artist and spatial designer whose multidisciplinary practice examines the intersections of material, craft, and spatial experience. Rooted in product design and informed by textile practice, her work spans textiles, ceramics, and installation, exploring how traditional techniques can be reimagined through contemporary making.
Rather than treating craft as a fixed cultural inheritance, Liu approaches it as an evolving language—one shaped by experimentation, material research, and cross-cultural dialogue. Through this process, she creates works that bridge design, art, and craft while opening new possibilities for material expression.
Iris Lin
Iris Lin is a Taiwanese designer and artist whose practice bridges design and artistic research through material exploration, participatory experiences, and spatial installations. Working across textiles, natural dyeing, workshops, and field research, she investigates how observation can be translated into tangible experiences that connect people with places, materials, and one another.
Rather than separating design from artistic research, Lin approaches both as complementary ways of understanding and responding to the world. Her work transforms everyday encounters into tactile experiences that invite reflection, participation, and new ways of sensing our relationship with the environment.
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