Christiane Keller
Textiles + Mixed Media
Maker Member
Christiane Keller is an artist whose practice is deeply informed by her background as an anthropologist, art historian, and curator. Over the past 20 years, she has worked closely with Aboriginal artists and communities across Australia, learning twining, coiling, and string-making from fibre artists in Arnhem Land including the Tjanpi Desert Weavers in the Central Desert. These experiences profoundly shaped her understanding of fibre as an expressive medium and continue to influence her own art practice.
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Christiane developed her artistic practice alongside her career as a researcher, curator and filmmaker. She regularly exhibits locally and interstate, with works held in private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra. She has undertaken commissions and facilitates workshops, sharing her knowledge of fibre-based art and its potential to connect material, process, and storytelling.
Christiane Keller’s art practice explores the transformative potential of fibre and recycled materials, reimagining discarded and natural resources into sculptural forms that challenge the boundaries of fibre art. Rooted in material exploration and sustainability, her work reflects a commitment to rethinking how objects and processes can embody environmental consciousness while expanding the language of contemporary fibre-based sculpture. Her approach emphasizes the interplay of material, process, and storytelling, weaving narratives of resilience and transformation into her works. By combining conventional textile techniques with experimental methods, she creates forms that are both grounded in tactile exploration and open to innovation. Each piece is a dialogue between the physical qualities of fibre and the conceptual possibilities of sculptural expression, inviting audiences to reconsider how materials carry meaning. Her practice seeks to highlight the connections between place, process, and sustainability.
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