Sheila Hicks

(1934- ) born at Hastings. Fiber artist and designer, teacher, considered a pioneer in using textiles to create large-scale artworks, using ancient weaving techniques from her travels to Mexico, South America, and India with modern technology for her tapestries and soft sculptures, established studio in Paris in 1967, has produced over 50 projects for public and private places and displayed in more than 30 individual and group exhibitions. Consult Monique Levi-Strauss, Sheila Hicks (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974) and New York Times, June 23, 1986, p. B-8 and Hastings Tribune, August 29, 1998, pp. A-5, A-6 and Contemporary Women Artists (St. James Press, 1999) 279-281.

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