Tammy Kanat is a Melbourne-based fibre artist and weaver whose practice investigates colour, rhythm and balance. Having begun her career in the arts as a jewellery designer Kanat repurposes her understanding of harmony, colour and form into wool, silk and yarn. She approaches each work with a sense of curiosity and playfulness; allowing her intuition to guide her through each colour choice and each warp and weft. Her approach to weaving is intuitive and rhythmic, never forced, premeditated or contrived, thus imbuing a sense of body and rhythm into each work. As Kanat explains:
“I often find it's not until the work has finished, that I think, oh, that's what came out. That's what that may have been.”
Much of this approach stems from her unique beginning as an artist; having wanted a woven tapestry and not being able to find one, Kanat decided to make one herself. Through over a decade of experimentation, expression and evolution Kanat has developed her signature impressionistic approach to colour and texture. This development has been assisted by her commitment to further refining her knowledge and skills in weaving, participating in multiple courses at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. Empowered with this knowledge, Kanat has fearlessly challenged the binaries of weaving through her constant playful questioning of its limits.
