Kieta Jackson: Antiquities from Another World 

Friday 14 July — Monday 17 July, 10.00 am – 4.00 pm (Closed Sunday)

Private view: Friday 14th July  4.00-6.00 pm

Jackson’s textile sculptures demonstrate two things, wonderful elegant containing forms and a sense of antiquity in another world and time. 

She works primarily with wires and sheet metal and builds vessels and forms of crocheted and woven fabric. 

 ‘The process starts with a fine gauge wire which is then woven on a loom by hand, creating a malleable fabric which is manipulated into the sculptural identity’. 

 ‘I am always thriving to create a harmonious relationship with material and forms, so the sculptures resonate found artefacts, archaeological remains and elements from tribal artefacts’. 

 Whilst her pieces adopt shapes borrowed from unearthed objects she also distresses and creates a patina on the surfaces of the metal, conveying deterioration and corrosion. 

We are left believing that her sensitive forms are ancient artefacts one would view in a museum or have been long forgotten. 

 After graduating with a BA (Hons) degree from Norwich School of Art and design in 1999, Kieta has had a constant flow of exhibitions nationally and internationally.  Gained an Award of Distinction from the Baltic Biennial of Miniature Weavers, Poland, 2001 and had her work published in Jac Scott’s ‘Textile perspective in Mixed Media Sculptures’ 2003, Fibre Arts Magazine, spring 2015, interview with Peripheral ARTeries Magazine 2017 an interview with Textileartist.org 2018, and been selected as a finalist for the Australian Woollahra small sculpture prize 2019, and Highly Commended Award. 

 Kieta has established a unique area of practice by her use of textiles in metal.