Kiera Faber
The Gathering
The artist writes: ‘Light illuminates fragrant clay dust hovering in the air of my mother’s ceramic studio: This crystallized memory encompassing magic and exploration spawned my love for materiality and imparting the marker’s mark by creating work by hand: To touch is to be alive. My Jacquard tapestries are created on looms that weave from digital files, metamorphosing pixels into physically woven threads. They exemplify tactility by weaving surreal depictions of my original drawings, analogue photographs, and hybrid combinations; fusing the known with the unknown and confounding what is real or imagined. Connected in blue, my textiles venerate a colour rarely found in nature. Through blue’s scarcity, it becomes a mystical other: Offering a divergent way of seeing and being in the world; realizing the impossible.’
Kiera Faber, The Gathering, front, Jacquard tapestry, 27 x 42 inches, 2025
Kiera Faber, The Gathering, back, Jacquard tapestry, 27 x 42 inches, 2025