SHARON KEARLEY
TEXTILE ARTIST

Sharon Kearley is a weave artist, educator and author, creating innovative woven textiles for contemporary spaces. Her practice takes a playful and unconventional approach to weave, exploring the relationship between structure, space and form.

Her work centres on the line—emotional, physical and hidden—as a connector of people, place and time. Beginning with the act of walking, she draws on archive maps and forgotten paths, tracing rhythms of movement that are echoed in the process of making—the interlocking of threads, the gesture of the hand, and the quiet choreography of the loom. Threads intersect, repeat and resist, reflecting the rhythms of both body and landscape.

Working with a restrained and sensitive material language, her cloth is often fragile and temporal, holding the presence of past lives and shifting landscapes. Through an ongoing dialogue that maps absence, connection and memory, her work reflects the subtle, shifting relationships between material, place and human experience.

Alongside her studio practice, she teaches weaving and writes on textile practice, extending her exploration of cloth through process and text.

Further information about current work, writing and teaching can be found at