Best Things: Brent Wadden

I can’t even believe I’m linking to a post about my own sad attempts at weaving in the context of this extraordinary artwork by Canadian artist Brent Wadden, but am only doing it in the hopes that some of his genius will rub off on me and my kiddie loom.

Wadden started his art career as a painter, and then switched to working on a backstrap loom some years later, which is where his work has really caught attention. It is interesting to have a fine artist working in such a traditionally crafty medium, and in this interview he says that “when people visit the studio I lay them out on the floor and they simply look like cloth, which has a different meaning for people… A transition happens when you stretch them and make them look very pristine – they then look more like paintings.”

There are lots more images and press at the Brent Wadden website, and he’s definitely an interesting one to follow on Instagram too.