Process: From Field to Fabric – Sarah Morton

Process is an exhibition tracing a journey, rooted in nature and Ulster Scots heritage, from field to fabric, and exploring wool, linen and copper.

From locally sourced wool to woven cloth, Process traces an evolving journey through fibre, making, and material exploration. Rooted in a lifelong connection to textiles, craft, and rural life, the exhibition follows the artist’s growing engagement with traditional wool processing techniques, from fleece collection and natural dyeing to spinning and weaving on four and eight-shaft looms.

Through experimentation with wool, linen, and copper, Process documents an intimate and hands-on relationship with materials, revealing how complex patterns, inspired by nature and landscape, are translated into contemporary woven forms.

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to encounter an emerging body of work at an important early stage in the artist’s developing practice.

Selected recent exhibitions by Sarah Morton include: Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr – Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition: The stories they come: from the land, the sea, and the sky (2026); Design Museum, London – Future Observatory: Tools for Transition (2025); V+A Dundee – Design Hopes: From home to health (2025) and V+A Dundee – Design Hopes: Work in progress (2024).

Headline photograph by Jilly Noble of Sarah Morton in her studio at The Steeple, Newburgh.