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Jane Kidd: 2016 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Crafts Laureate
The ACC is pleased to announce ACC member Jane Kidd (Salt Spring Island, BC) is the 2016 winner of the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in fine crafts. Jane Kidd taught in the Alberta College of Art + Design Fibre Program for more than 30 years and has been an active member of the Alberta Craft Council since 1993. She was the Alberta Craft Award of Excellence recipient in 2008. Her work has been featured in multiple ACC exhibitions, publications and acquisition projects.
Through the act of weaving, Jane Kidd engages in a sensual process and employs a physical language to establish links with the viewer. She creates contemporary objects that convey a deep engagement with the natural world and draws our attention to our constantly renegotiated relationship with it. Kidd appreciates that she is a participant in the continuum of its makers, the counterpoint it provides to modern life, and the hands-on materiality it embodies.
According to Jennifer Salahub, a historian at the Alberta College of Art + Design, “Kidd emphatically demonstrates that issues central to much visual art practice today – including gender, identity, postcolonialism, economic justice and ethics – are relevant to contemporary tapestry, and by extension to all fine craft.”
