AN ART gallery will play home to an up-and-coming artist’s first solo exhibition after being delayed due to lockdown restrictions.

Greek artist Archontoula Tsatsoulaki’s textile work, ‘Unravelling My Secret Paths’, will be shown off at the North House Gallery, in Manningtree.

The work grew from her Master’s degree at Chelsea College of Arts in 2019, and she is known to use her thick mane of long black hair in her work.

The focus of Miss Tsatsoulaki’s practice is to understand secret messages, symbols and codes in the patterning of clothes. For her main installation she collected her hair as it naturally shed, and transformed it into a yarn.

From here, she wove it with natural materials such as wool or cotton into a long textile grid. The finished product represents a map of her own secret thoughts and symbols from her wanderings through London.

Other art on display included symbols of indirect messages organised as a collection of ‘objets trouvés’ which explore the boundaries between art and craft through a new language inspired by secret codified methods of communication.

You can view the exhibition at the gallery, by The Walls, from June 5 until July 3.