Marie Hazard

Marie Hazard (b.1994) is a French artist weaver who lives and works in Paris, France. Hazard’s multidisciplinary approach to weaving recalls 19th century innovations of the British Arts & Crafts movement’s adaptation of techniques that were tailored to our needs yet embraces and welcomes accidents and elements of chance.

 

Using a manual wooden loom, Hazard incorporates both traditional and modern craft techniques in abstract textile works. Found materials from flowers outside her studio, discarded tire parts, diverse fabrics such as linen, mohair, recycled polyester, paper yarn, as well as stitched or printed excerpts of texts and her photography are incorporated into her works, which question the displacement and the position of the viewer and shape the perception of these multi-media woven paintings.

 

For Hazard, who discovered she was dyslexic while studying, weaving is a way of writing. Any mistakes made on the loom are included, even highlighted; Hazard’s practice is centred as much around the methodical, meditative process of weaving using traditional techniques as the finished piece. Like Michelangelo Pistoletto’s rags stuffed around and between the legs of Venus or Alighiero Boetti’s painstaking and piecemeal six-metre long tapestry, Tutto, Hazard’s works invigorate the materials that otherwise go unnoticed in our globalised society.

 

Hazard earned a BA in textile design at Central Saint Martins in London (2014) and an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London (2017). After graduating, Hazard worked as an assistant to pioneering textile artist Sheila Hicks, whose practice also focuses on reviving ancient methods of weaving. Hazard has been featured in several solo gallery exhibitions in Europe, and in 2019 her work appeared in a group show at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Her work can be found in many private and international collections.