THREADING LAND
Frances Crowe
6 March – 13 April 2026
Opening: Friday 6 March, 18:00
Closing: Monday 13 April, 17:00
Guest speaker: Emma Stroude
Location: Scenius Gallery, Sligo
Gallery 1 (Adelaide St.): Street-facing installation, viewable 24 hours
Gallery 2: Open Monday–Friday, 10:00–17:00
Admission: Free
About the Exhibition
Threading Land presents a series of handwoven tapestries by Frances Crowe that draw on landscape, memory and embodied experience. Working through processes of weaving, the artist translates sensory encounters—sound, texture and movement—into materially dense compositions.
Rooted in the visual language of Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, the works explore place as both physical terrain and cultural memory. Rhythmic structures and tonal shifts of rust, copper, green and brown articulate a quiet but persistent material presence.
Frances Crowe, Love in a Pandemic, 2022, Handwoven tapestry
Frances Crowe, Seeds of Resistance 1, 2022, Handwoven tapestry
Installation view with visitors, Threading Land, Scenius Gallery, 2026
Installation view with visitors, Threading Land, Scenius Gallery, 2026
Artist
Frances Crowe
Frances Crowe was born in Waterford and studied Fine Art in The National College of Art and Design Dublin, where she discovered the weaving department and fell in love with Tapestry. She moved to Roscommon in 1980 and opened Grange Studio.
She worked as an art teacher for many years while still maintaining her artistic practise. As an educator, collaborator and curator Frances has facilitated many school and community based art projects. Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland, Roscommon Arts Office, and The Bealtaine Festival.
Her tapestries have been selected for many high profile fibre art exhibitions in Ireland, England, China and Canada. She has been commissioned to create tapestries for public spaces and private collections, in Ireland and abroad. She has received many awards, most recently, an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. She has been selected by The Michelangelo Foundation for inclusion in the Homo Faber guide for Master Artisans, and was shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award 2024.
Website: francescrowe.com
Instagram: @crowefrances
YouTube: FrancesCroweArtist
Credits
Curated by Marita O’Hanlon
With Scenius Gallery
Opening remarks by Emma Stroude