NATURAL IMPRESSIONS

been a visiting artist at over 30 institutions. Her
work has been recognized with a Louis Comfort
Tiffany Fellowship and twice nominated for the
San Francisco Museum of Art SECA award.
Notable public collections include the Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive; Crocker Art Museum; Manetti-Shrem
Museum of Art; Oakland Museum of California;
Weatherspoon Art Museum; and Yale University
Art Gallery. Couzens lives and works in Northern
California’s Sacramento River delta. She is
represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los
Angeles.
JULIETTE LEMPEREUR
Bruxelles, Belgium
INSTAGRAM: @juliette_lempereur
WEBSITE: juliettelempereur.fr
In 2020, Juliette Lempereur completed a double
bachelor’s degree in algorithmic and design at
Grenoble University and the ENSCI-les Ateliers
design school in Paris. The following year, in 2021,
she also obtained her Certificate of completion of
recorder studies at the Erik Satie conservatory.
She went on to specialise in weaving at the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, graduating in
2023. In the meantime, Juliette has taken part in
several group exhibitions in Brussels (Art Truc Troc
fair at Tour&Taxi in 2022, Extra Small #7, a group
show at la Maison des Arts in 2022) as well as two
solo exhibitions in Grenoble (“Paysages tissés” - in
english “Weaved landscapes”- at La Vina gallery in
2022, and “Flottés” at Alter-art gallery in 2023).
Today, Juliette Lempereur’s practice is essentially
weaving -a slow and meticulous process, unfolding
at various scales-.
KASIA TONS
Peramangk and Kaurna lands, Australia
INSTAGRAM: @kasia.tons
WEBSITE: kasiarosetons.com
Kasia Tons is a textile artist working and living on
Peramangk Country. Hand embroidery and mask
making are central to her practice which sits at the
intersection of art, fashion, and craft. Her process
is slow and intuitive, colourful, and expressive. The
labour and time invested in creating her work acts
as an antidote to the fast pace of the modern world
and the addictive seeking of instant gratification
through digital means. Recurring thematic interests
include social impacts of digital technology use,
the Anthropocene, and interpersonal/interspecies
relationship dynamics. She has exhibited nationally
and internationally and has participated in
residencies in Iceland, the USA, Latvia, and the
Slovak Republic. The Rothko Art Centre, Latvia
holds two of her pieces as part of their permanent
collection and her work was selected as a finalist for
the 2021 Ramsay Art Award. She works part time as
an arts mentor.
KATHERINE HUNT
New Mexico, USA
INSTAGRAM: @katherineahunt
WEBSITE: katherinehunt.xyz
Katherine Hunt attended the University of
Minnesota-Minneapolis/St. Paul for her BFA in
Indigenous American Studies, double minoring in
Cultural Psychology and Women’s Studies, She
received her MFA in Film/Video from California
Institute of Arts, with an emphasis, while studying
abroad, on Curatorial Studies at La Cinémathèque
Française, Paris, France. Following graduation,
Hunt worked in Los Angeles in the art department
on music videos, feature films, and television shows
creating original art props, and set design. In 2020,
she was the recipient of grants from both the Andy
Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts/ Fulcrum
Fund Grant and the Foundation for Contemporary
Arts. Having taught Studio Art Workshops at the
Detroit Institute of Arts, Hunt currently lives and
works in northern New Mexico, exhibiting within the
United States and abroad, and is represented by G2
Gallery in Santa Fe.
KERSTIN LINDSTRÖM
Härnösand, Sweden
INSTAGRAM: @k.lindstrom.harnosand
WEBSITE: kerstinlindstrom.se
Kerstin Lindström is situated in Härnösand, a
small town in the north of Sweden, where she
works in her own studio. Lindström have directed
and participated in several projects, nationally
and internationally and taken part in exhibitions,
both separately and in groups. Since 2011 she has
been carrying out an extensive project on time and
knitting titled OWN OUR OWN TIME. The work
has been enacted at six specific places in Gjogv/
the Faroe Islands,Lerwick/Shetland,Paris/France,
Quebec/ Canada, Borås/Sweden and Blönduos/
Iceland with over 600 participants from many
countries.
Selected exhibitions: 2023 The 7th Riga
International Textile and Fiber Art , Triennial
2023 awarded a silver medal by the international
jury; 2023 Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm
Sweden; 2021 Forssan Museo Forssa Finland;
2020 CONTEXTILE 2020 an international textile
biennale in Guilmaraes Portugal; 2020 THREADS
at Virserum Arthall Sweden. 2019 3rd International
Textile Biennial Haacht Belgium; 2018 Far out
textile Almgrens sidenväveri Stockholm Sweden;
2017 Kunstmaanland Ameland The Netherlands
2017 STATE at Sundsvall Museum,Sweden; 2015
Marc Rothko Center Daugavpils Latvvia.
KRISTINA PENHOET
Washington, DC, USA
INSTAGRAM: @momentframer
WEBSITE: kristinapenhoet.com
Originally from Oregon, Kristina began working
with fiber and textiles as a small child, learning
to crochet and sew during her summer visits to
her grandparent’s farm on an island in the Pacific
Northwest. After receiving her undergraduate
degree in Biology, she attended Otis College of
Art and Design, concentrating on sculpture and
environmental design, and received a master’s
degree in architecture from the Southern California
Institute of Architecture. She worked in film
production, stage design and architecture prior
to rediscovering fiber as a medium. In addition to
national and international shows, her work has been
shown at the Phillips Collection, the Delaplaine Arts
Center, and galleries throughout the Mid-Atlantic
region.
KRISTINE STATTIN
Castres, France
INSTAGRAM: @kristine_stattin
WEBSITE: kristinestattin.com
Kristine Stattin is a contemporary textile artist
predominantly working with free-motion machineand
hand embroidery, creating colorful, expressive,
and organic abstract thread paintings. She builds
her paintings in layers, stitch by stitch, sometimes on
a painted or hand-printed background. Each mark
intuitively gives direction to the next.
Kristine was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and is
currently based in the south of France. She is a
self-taught stitcher but studied Fine Art in Sweden,
Spain, and in the UK, where she earned a
Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Fine Art.
She has exhibited internationally in group
shows both online and in person, such as “Scythia”
Biennale in Ukraine, “From Lausanne to Beijing”
Biennale in China, “Threaded”, Envision Arts in
the US where she was awarded with Honorable
Mention, and “Surface and Depth” exhibition during
Rome Art Week.
LARA ZAPPA
Como, Italy
INSTAGRAM: @zappalara
I was born near Lake Como and after studying
humanities I started my artistic career. My first
participation in an exhibition was in 2018 at
Miniartextil in Como. I later exhibited in various
national and international group exhibitions. In 2019
I also inaugurated a personal exhibition in Bologna
in Italy.
LAURA RAMIREZ GARCIA
San Juan, Argentina
INSTAGRAM: @ramirezgarcialau
Laura nació y creció en un hogar humilde de la
Ciudad de San Juan, Argentina. Su madre era
modista y le enseñó desde muy pequeña a coser,
tejer y bordar. Creció rodeada de telas e hilos, sintió
mucho interés desde muy pequeña por la costura
y a medida que el tiempo pasaba, comenzó a
colaborar en algunas tareas como costurera.
En la universidad, estudia la carrera de Profesor
de Artes Visuales en la Universidad Nacional de
San Juan, mientras avanzaba con sus estudios,
simultáneamente comenzó a pintar cuadros,
obteniendo reconocimientos en salones de pintura
provinciales. Durante sus estudios universitarios,
cursa una materia dedicada al Arte Textil, que
despierta en ella, un gran interés y admiración por el
trabajo con las fibras. En el año 2018, concluye su
primer cuadro textil y obtiene Mención especial en
el Salón de Artes Visuales denominado “Impulsarte”,
en la Provincia de San Juan. En el año 2019
obtiene el Primer Premio en el en la 2da Edición
del Salón “Impulsarte”. Durante el año 2020, fue
convocada para participar en muestras virtuales
internacionales, realizadas de esta forma, por la
crisis sanitaria, entre ellas “100 días de increíble
arte textil” en Textile Curator. También ha participado
en Salones de Arte a nivel nacional como “Salón
Juego de Damas”, “66º Salón de Artes Plásticas
Manuel Belgrano”,”27 Salón Bienal Tapiz”- Museo
Sívori. Algunas de sus obras, forman parte de la
colección de la Galería de Arte Contemporáneo
Artify.
LIA PORTO
Buenos Aires, Argentina
INSTAGRAM: @liaporto_art
WEBSITE: liaporto.com
Born in Patagonia, Lia lives and works in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. With a multidisciplinary practice,
grounded in painting and drawing she incorporated
embroidery, collages, and installations to explore
and interrogate about cultural identities, transcultural
influences, gender role, social standards and
aesthetics, borders and permeability. She uses the
domestic space and it´s relationship with the natural
world as a model for this investigation, and the
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