Viewing Sukaina Kubba turns Scottish carpets into cross-cultural conversations

Iraqi-born, Toronto-based artist Sukaina Kubba’s previous works have been inspired research into Persian rugs, but during a recent residency at Dundee Contemporary Arts, she visited major Scottish collections of carpets and textiles – including the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive at the University of Glasgow; the National Museum of Scotland; and Morton Young Borland Lace Mill in Ayrshire. The large-scale, monochrome works she created in response – ranging from paper pulp casting, embossing and laser engraving to screen prints made on DCA’s large-format press, will be part of the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, which opens this week at Dundee Contemporary Arts.