Artist: Jane Kidd
Date: 2001
Size: 129 x 154 cm
Museum: Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa, Canada)
Technique: Tapestry
Jane Kidd (b. 1952)Renowned textile artist Jane Kidd is best known for her fine, hand-woven wool tapestries that explore our relationship to nature and the environment, as mediated through culture, science and technology. Kidd draws on a wide range of sources from botanical drawing, images of cells, to aerial and satellite photographs of land, for subjects that include explorations of genetically modified and engineered organisms, deforestation, and aerial views of planted crops. Her technically demanding work also points to the specific aspects of the hand made, as objects of beauty and material skill. As she has written, “A powerful aspect of craft lies in intimate hands on experience and knowledge of process and materials.” Kidd has also referred to her work as a “practice in the middle,” bridging craft and art.A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, she is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. The Alberta Craft Council conferred its Award of Excellence on her in 2008. In 2016, she received the Saidye Bronfman Award, a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, for her contribution to fine craft. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions across Canada, the United States, Japan, Poland, Hungary and Australia. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Canadian Museum of History.
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