Ahead of his solo exhibition this autumn at Queen’s University in Belfast, Joseph McBrinn previews textile artist Michael Brennand-Wood’s radical reinterpretation of embroidery

Despite having been exhibited all over the world the work of the artist Michael Brennand-Wood, in the ‘contested spaces’ of ’embroidery, lace, and patterning and recently traditions of floral textiles’, remains less well known in Ireland than it really should be