Tate Galleries

Wallace Sewell has enjoyed a close relationship with the Tate galleries since 2008. In that time, they have designed 60+ scarves inspired by various artists, from JWM Turner to Barbara Hepworth and Magdelena Abakanowicz, and exhibitions including 'Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde' and 'Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet'.

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  • Tate Modern - General Collection (2025)

  • Tate Britain - Turner & Constable (2025)

  • Tate Modern - Electric Dreams (2024)

  • Tate Modern - Philip Guston (2023)

  • Tate Britain - John Sargent (2023)

Tate Modern - David Hockney (2023)

Inspired by ‘A Bigger Splash’ and ‘Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)’ by David Hockney.

His wonderfully vivid areas of flat colour contrast with textures of the water splashes and ripples and the foliage in the background. Bold flat areas of colour sit next to texture weaves and pins to try to recreate these effects. With cool blue tones used in a gradient to give the feel of light on water. Highlighted with sunny yellow, fresh green, warm brick and pink, transport you to a warm sunny day by the pool.

  • Tate Britain - Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2022)

  • Tate Modern - Paul Cezanne (2022)

  • Tate Modern - Magdelena Abakanowicz (2022)

  • Tate Modern - Lubaina Himid (2021)

  • Tate Modern - Permanent Collection (2019)

  • Tate Britain - William Blake (2019)

Tate Modern - Anni Albers (2018)

In 2018, Wallace Sewell were very fortunate to have collaborated with The Tate Gallery again. Creating three bespoke Bauhaus inspired scarves. Harriet and Emma are deeply influenced by the Bauhaus and the designers who studied there.

  • Tate Britian - Edward Burne-Jones (2018)

  • Tate Modern - Amedeo Modigliani (2017)

  • Tate Britain - Impressionists in London (2017)

  • Tate Modern - Robert Rauschenberg (2016)

  • Tate Modern - Georgia O’Keefe (2016)

  • Tate Modern - Alexander Calder (2015)

  • Tate Britain - Barbara Hepworth (2015)

  • Tate Modern - Henri Matisse (2014)

  • Tate Britain - JMW Turner (2014)

  • Tate Modern - Paul Klee (2013)

  • Tate Britain - LS Lowry (2013)

  • Tate Modern - Roy Lichtenstein (2012)

  • Tate Britain - Pre-Raphaelites (2012)

  • Tate Modern - Sean Scully (2011)

  • Tate Britain - John Martin (2011)

  • Tate Modern - Paul Ganguin (2010)

  • Tate Modern - Pop Life (2009)

  • Tate Britain - JMW Turner (2009)

Tate Modern - Mark Rothko (2008)

Wallace Sewell's first collaboration with Tate Modern, designing an exclusive scarf collection inspired by Mark Rothko’s Late Works for an exhibition of the same name that showed from September 2008 to February 2009.

Rothko’s mesmerising, soft-edged rectangles of heavily saturated colour inspired the palette and block design for this range of scarves. Emma and Harriet explored his use of colour in 'Light Red Over Black’ (1957), to blend deep reds, orange, maroon, brown and black for two saturated and striking merino wool scarves.

Another two scarves were designed, influenced in colour by ‘Untitled’ (c.1944) and ‘Untitled’ (1969). A neutral option for Rothko enthusiasts, these scarves feature his distinctive block style and nod to his textural details, originally created using a drier brush to sweep his colour. Wallace Sewell interpreted this using hopsack and dotted weave structures in varying hues.