Sadler’s Wells has unveiled two new large-scale tapestries by artist and sculptor Eva Rothschild in the foyer of its new venue, Sadler’s Wells East, which opens at East Bank in Stratford next month.
Eva Rothschild was commissioned by Sadler’s Wells to create works that respond to the new building and worked with West Dean College to create the tapestries, titled The In Breath and The Out Breath, which, at 4 by 5 metres a piece, are the largest artworks to be created on the loom at West Dean Tapestry Studio in West Sussex and the first to be created for a theatre.
Rothschild said: “Sadler's Wells East is a new gathering place, a location for community, movement and collaboration. Tapestries have warmed, softened and humanised our communal spaces throughout history and so, from the outset, both the function and the architecture of this new building made me certain that this would be the best artistic response to the space. The titles relate directly to our most fundamental act and the beginning of every experience we have and hold within the body.”