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| Louise Weaver |
Australian textile artist
Louise Weaver uses crochet and stitch to create stuffed creatures in classic taxidermy poses.
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| Louise Weaver |
After studying at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and gaining a Master's degree in Painting, Weaver has exhibited extensively across Australia and has also seen her pieces tour the world. Weaver has been exploring the boundaries of textile design for the past decade, with an emphasis on knit, stitch and crochet techniques.
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| Louise Weaver |
The pieces shown here are created by shaping lambswool and synthetic fibres over taxidermist's moulds or high-density foam.
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| Louise Weaver |
For more on this topic, see our
previous post on paper taxidermy; while WGSN-homebuildlife subscribers can read our full report from Li Edelkoort's latest exhibition,
Talking Textiles, which questions the boundaries of the field of textiles in an equally astonishing way:
click here.
