Jennifer Robertson has a deep fascination with landscape, geomorphology, and cosmology, to the deep cycles of time through which material is layered, compressed, folded and transformed. Robertson’s intricate artistic and technical making processes are driven by curiosity and innovation, weaving to sculpt with lines of thread. Deep cycles of time affect geomorphic forms in space, resulting in material in a constant state of transformation. This geological nomenclature originated from a softer material in the form of textiles, of which repetition is intrinsic to both. Robertson works through analogies and metaphors to explore the breadth, poetics, senses and tactilities the language enables.

The textile artworks are woven from elements commonly found on Earth but uncommon in textile art, including quartz, basalt, brass, linen, silk and more contemporary materials such as carbon fibre and titanium. These threads are brought together on a unique digital loom, which permits subtle adjustments in the weaving plane, enabling the formation of intricate structures, patterns and forms – culminating in truly three-dimensional, architecturally informed artworks.

The resulting large-scale, sculptural wall artworks are lightweight in presence, yet convey a sense of depth and colour play through the collision of the materials with light. These works gently maintain structural folds, broken and continuous lines, sedimentary wave patterns, metamorphic foliations, and granular surface textures. The highly durable and minimal-maintenance sculptural textiles are fully realised once released from loom tension, when the textile naturally buckles, pleats and ripples.