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| Untitled (pink / grey) by Brent Wadden Handwoven fibres, 79 x 71" 2015 |
Brent Wadden was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1979.
If you look him up on the internet, he comes up as Brent Wadden painter. His BFA degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) is in painting. "Friends commented on how much my work resembled textiles or how it would translate very easily into a weaving, and that planted a seed" so that when he saw an exhibition of vintage Morrocan rugs in 2010 it "totally blew my mind". The large weavings were hung vertically on the wall rather than flat on the floor, and Wadden was drawn into the psychedelic nature of the lines and patterns. He liked "how the patterns and colours just started and stopped randomly" At the time Wadden was living and working in Berlin, Germany and the artist-weaver Travis Meinolf lived nearby. Meinolf kindly started Brent with some yarn, a back strap loom, and rudimentary lessons. It wasn't long before a hybrid artform of woven fibres assembled and then mounted on stretched canvas became Brent Wadden's primary medium.
He has had many solo exhibitions in Europe and in North America. He uses second hand yarns and threads, and concentrates on large jagged abstract forms. This focus on form melds the aesthetic gender and status roles associated with craft and abstraction. The resulting paintings have both a structural life and a planar presence. (Mitchell-Innes and Nash art gallery)
Brent Wadden now divides his time between Vancouver Canada and Berlin Germany.
Further Sources: Emergent magazine , Pace Gallery, and the book Cloth :100 Artists by Lena Corwin
Number five of Canadian Artists who work with Textiles.
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