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Jane Kidd (born 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia) is an award-winning Canadian textile artist based out of Salt Spring Island, Canada.

Education and early life
Kidd studied at the University of Victoria and Vancouver School of Art.

Teaching
Kidd taught in the Fibre program of the Alberta College of Art and Design from 1979 - 2010 and was recognized as Lecturer Emeritus in 2013. Kidd has presented on her work at the Canadian Crafts Federation Symposium and The Textile Society of America Symposium.

Artwork
While originally educated in modernist aesthetics, Kidd's primary medium is hand-woven tapestry. Her work explores historical and contemporary issues such as material culture, the handmade, and the environment. Many of the images in her work reflect the colors, places, and objects she has seen thorugh her travels.

In the mid-1980s her work used abstract shapes and symbols to create a sense of movement through space. Over time Kidd's work incorporated architectural shapes like arches and stairways, along with elements from nature such as bones, leaves, and flames. Her work in the 1990s continued to incorporate images of everyday objects including jewelry, feathers, flowers, and tools.

Kidd's artwork is held in public and private collections including the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, the Canada Council Art Bank, The Canadian Museum of History, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in groups and solo exhibitions around the world including The United States, Canada, Hungary, Australia, Austria, and Japan.

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Handwork Series: to the bone, in the blood, from the heart (fragments 1-9) ===== This series involves a set of nine tapestries each 50 x 35 cm in size. The tapestries were a mix of textile materials including wool, cotton, rayon, silk, and metal thread woven on high-warp looms. The series was first shown in September 2003 at Calgary's Stride Gallery. The artwork mixes traditional tapestry processes with modernist aesthetics. The tapestries are highly patterned and brightly colored. Throughout the tapestries, Kidd uses images of hands juxtaposed against historical textile styles. The series toured the Kamloops Art Gallery, Alberta Craft Council Gallery, and the Prime Gallery.

Incantation: The Senses
Incantation: The Senses was comissioned by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Arts Branch of Alberta Community Development and installed permanently in the Capital Arts Building in Edmonton, Canada in 2006. The artwork is a textile mural made of wool, cotton, rayon, and silk and measures at 1.67 meters tall and 4 meters wide. The artwork is divided into two sections. The first section is a smaller, rectangular piece with a checkerboard pattern and a blue border with warm toned swirls around it. Inside the checkerboard there is a series of words relating to the senses. The text is woven with an auxillary thread and is slightly raised above the sirface. The second part of the artwork is a larger piece that has the same border as the smaller piece and contains images that relate to the five senses. The overall theme of the artwork is a celebration of the human senses

Parkland
Parkland was created in 2004 for the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer, Canada. The piece is primarily made of wool and measures at 5.5 by 2.4 meters. The artwork was created over an eight month period. The piece depicts three main scenes. The first is a windy sky with kites flying in it. The second is a collection of parkland flowers and leaves falling across and light background. The last section is several patchworked images of land and water. Across the bottom of the image there is also the image of a canoe on a river.

Other selected works

 * Land Sentence 
 * Wonderland Series 
 * Possession Series 
 * Curiosities 
 * Labyrinth 
 * A Continuous Obession #3 
 * After Thoughts 
 * Shrine/Surrender 
 * Breaking Thoughts 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 * Jane Kidd: Curious, Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (June 23rd to August 26th, 2018)
 * Handwork, Stride Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (September 5th to October 4th, 2003)
 * Jane Kidd - Recent Tapestries, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (1996)
 * Jane Kidd: Journey, Ten Years, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta (1994)

Selected Group Exhibitions

 * Woven by Hand Contemporary Canadian Tapestry, Centre D’Art De La Sarre, La Sarre, Quebec (September 10th to October 25th, 2020)
 * Rebellious: Alberta Women in the 1980’s, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (November 9th, 2019 to February 16th, 2020)
 * Overandunderandoverandunder… Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists, Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta (December 1st, 2017 to January 26th, 2018)
 * Eye of the Needle, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta (October 7th, 2017 to May 13th, 2018)

Awards and Recognition
Kidd received the Alberta Craft Council Award of Excellence in 2008, and in 2016 won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts Saidye Bronfman Award for her contribution to fine craft. The Saidye Bronfman Award recognizes those who have made significant contributions to fine crafts development in Canada. The $25,000 award one of the largest fine arts awards for individuals in Canada. Kidd's tapestry works are in the permanent collections of the Glenbow Museum, the Canada Council Art Bank, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.