Jane Kidd

b. 1952, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Landslice #1 and #3 are part of a series Jane Kidd wove after joining the faculty of the Alberta College of Art, where she taught from 1980 to 2011.

Smaller and more intimately scaled than her large architectural commissions, the works explore woven structure and form. She began by weaving long bands of different materials and colours; then, by pulling on the warp threads, she gathered the strips into a compressed low-relief sculpture reminiscent of geological stratification. Her subsequent tapestries have been more figurative in nature and exploit a rich personal iconography that draws on her research into the history of textiles, the natural world, and the phenomenon of collecting. Kidd was awarded the prestigious Saidye Bronfman Award for fine craft in 2016.