A Soft Touch brings together contemporary artists whose practices engage visually and conceptually with the material ‘softness’ of textiles but whose works clearly embody values of empowerment and resistance. Speaking from a range of feminist, queer, migrant and decolonial positionalities, the artists of A Soft Touch invite audiences to recognise the importance of living in the world with softness at heart and what possibilities are granted by these expressions. Curators Sophia Cai Artists Soraya Abidin Anney Bounpraseuth Andrew Chan Paula do Prado Mehwish Iqbal Kait James Yasbelle Kerkow Haneen Mahmood Martin Ema Shin Siying Zhou Image: Haneen Mahmood Martin, 1920s, Hand-stitching on turmeric-dyed linen, 50 x 70cm, 2020, courtesy of the artist