Sheila Hicks (born 1934) is a pioneering artist noted for objects and public commissions whose structures are built of colour and fibre. This volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Hicks's work. It documents the dramatically divergent scale of her textiles as well as her distinctive use[...]
This book celebrates the outstanding individuals whose talent, ambitions, determination and courage drove them to produce their best at the moments of highest tension.[...]