Al Bates

Al Bates is a South London based artist and textile designer, originally from North Yorkshire. Her work varies from large scale textile hangings to finely detailed paintings, exploring materiality, memory and domestic spaces.

Her textile practice is rooted in a hands-on understanding of materials and sustainable making. Combining techniques such as knit, quilting, embroidery and needlefelt, each technique leaves room for the next to use its offcuts, creating handcrafted, one of a kind artworks that leave nothing wasted.

Al graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021 with a First Class BA Honours in Textile Design, specialising in print, and is represented by 8 Holland Street Gallery.

Exhibitions
2026 | ‘How Many Hands’, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo
2025 | ‘Elbow Room’, 8 Holland Street Gallery, Kensington
2025 | ‘Creators Exhibition’, Craft Week, 8 Holland Street Gallery, St James’s Park
2023 | Summer Show, 8 Holland Street Galleries, Bath and London
2022 | Future Colour and Materials for Office Space, Modulyss Showroom, Clerkenwell Design Week
2021 | CLOTH21, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
2021 | ‘Love and Chaos’, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow