Jade Walker’s textile-based work is infused with expanded materials and color choices, layered with a freedom to embrace her abstract storytelling methods. Her body of work compares textile patterns, written text, and elements from the natural world as systems of communication. Historical female knitters engaged in espionage during wartime, forward-thinking cautionary fairy tales like Rumpelstiltskin and fables like The Wolf and the Crane, the historical notions of “women’s work”, and the ways people all over the world rely on textiles to tell their story and the story of their ancestors have led to Walker’s investigation of how woven materials both hold notions of comfort and communication simultaneously. Hemming + Hawing consists of works that address both the shifting tide in America’s relationship to our planet and methods of survival for the next generation.

Bio:
Jade Walker is a sculptor and an active member of the arts community living in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA from the University of Florida and her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Women and Their Work (Austin, TX), Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX), the Austin Museum of Art (now The Contemporary Austin), Blue Star Contemporary Arts (San Antonio, TX), Dimension Gallery (Austin, TX), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), The Museum of Pocket Art (Austin, TX and traveling).
Walker’s most recent group exhibitions included a two-person exhibition (with Margaret Meehan) at grayDUCK Gallery (Austin, TX) and a group exhibition at Artspace (Wimberley, TX) curated by Jules Buck Jones. Residencies have included Facebook Artist in Residency, Elsewhere, and Penland School of Craft.