Project Room - Sheila Hicks / Piero Dorazio. Interlacing Colours

Preview: written before the show opened

In May 1960 Sheila Hicks met the Roman painter Piero Dorazio in Milan. Her memory of that meeting has never been published, and this Project Room is built on it. In Dorazio's "interlacing colours", his grids of vertical and horizontal lines, she saw a "strong textile sensitivity".

The show backs her memory with material traced in both artists' archives. You'll find three paintings Dorazio made in 1960 and donated, on view for the first time, beside a site-specific work made for PAC and dedicated to him, and two Hicks pieces where his grids enter her weaving.

It is an archive-led focus show that runs on the same dates as the Hicks retrospective of more than 200 works in the same building, and it stands on its own. Give it a separate stop: this is where her grids find a source. PAC is open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 19:30, Thursday until 22:30, closed Mondays, last entry an hour before closing. No ticket price is published yet.