Shades of Blue
Jean Carbon
10 February - 8 March 2026 | Awatea Gallery
Jean Carbon is a renowned textile artist based in Raglan, New Zealand. This installation of indigo artworks showcases her signature & experimental Shibori techniques.
Shibori - from the Japanese : Shibori to 'wring, squeeze, press' the Shibori group of techniques include numerous resist processes practiced throughout the world. it is given a three dimensional form of folding, stitching, plucking, twisting, tying & blocking.
A Textile artisan, fashion designer, installation artist, traveller and teacher.
Jeans’ passion is fabric, its history and origins, the many ways it can be patterned, coloured and decorated to create garments or works of art. She uses the ancient resist dying techniques of Shibori and clamped blocks to pattern glorious silk fabrics. While this form of dyeing is very labour intensive it allows her to be specific in placement of the pattern on the garment or piece of art making it unique and original.
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