Jane Kidd

Jane Kidd
Born 1952 (age 65–66)
Victoria, British Columbia
Known for Tapestry
Awards Saidye Bronfman Award
2016
Alberta Craft Council Award of Excellence
2008
Elected Royal Canadian Academy of Art
2001
Website www.janekidd.net

Jane Kidd (born 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian textile artist based out of Salt Spring Island, Canada.[1]

Biography

Kidd studied at the University of Victoria and Vancouver School of Art. She taught in the Fibre program of the Alberta College of Art and Design from 1979 - 2010 and was recognized as Lecturer Emeritus in 2013.[2] Kidd has presented on her work at the Canadian Crafts Federation Symposium and The Textile Society of America Symposium.[3][4]

Kidd received the Alberta Craft Council Award of Excellence in 2008, and in 2016 won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts Saidye Bronfman Award for her contribution to fine craft.[5][6] Kidd's tapestry works are in the permanent collections of the Glenbow Museum, the Canada Council Art Bank, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[7]

While originally educated in modernist aesthetics, Kidd's primary medium is hand-woven tapestry.[8] Her work explores historical and contemporary issues such as material culture, the handmade, and the environment.[9][10]

Selected works

  • Land Sentence[11][12]
  • Handwork Series: to the bone, in the blood, from the heart (fragments 1-9)[13]
  • Wonderland Series[14]
  • Possession Series[15]
  • Curiosities[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Jane B. Kidd | Art + Design | Idea Exchange". ideaexchange.org. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  2. ↑ "Professors/Lecturers Emeritus | Alberta College of Art and Design". acad.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  3. ↑ "Final Heirloom Speaker Announced! – Canadian Crafts Federation". canadiancraftsfederation.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  4. ↑ Jane, Kidd, (2010-01-01). "Handwork as a Conceptual Strategy".
  5. ↑ "Alberta Craft Council - Alberta Craft Awards". www.albertacraft.ab.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  6. ↑ "The Canada Council for the Arts - Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts". archive.ggavma.canadacouncil.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  7. ↑ "Members Since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Stride Gallery". www.stride.ab.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  9. ↑ "Murder incorporated". www.winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  10. ↑ "Eclectic Canadian artists honoured by Governor-General's Awards". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  11. ↑ "The Power of Slow – Gallery 2A « American Tapestry Alliance". americantapestryalliance.org. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  12. ↑ "Precise: Craft Refined | Winnipeg Art Gallery". wag.ca. 2011. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  13. ↑ Gogarty, Amy (2004). "Jane Kidd's Handwork Series: Disciplinarity and the Reparative Impulse". Textile. 2: 118–132.
  14. ↑ "Jane Kidd: Curious | Kelowna Art Gallery". kelownaartgallery.com. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  15. ↑ "Alberta Craft Council - 2009 Unity & Diversity - Unity & Diversity - Jane Kidd". www.albertacraft.ab.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  16. ↑ "Curious: an exhibition opening and artist talk by Jane Kidd - Events - Craft Council of British Columbia". Craft Council of British Columbia. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
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