Tania Spencer

Tania is a Western Australian artist based in the wheatbelt town of Lake Grace. Her art process combines traditional textile techniques with rural, industrial, or recycled materials. Her works often take the form of large scale knitted installations using fencing wires or wire drawings, and embroideries of heavy wire onto metal supports. Hand bending each wire stitch to create archival textiles; her tools are found in the farming shed, not the sewing box.

The transparency of Tania’s works’ structures alludes to societal issues where boundaries are often in a state of flux, like belief systems, social conditioning, cultural differences, and ecological balance.

Tania has had 7 solo exhibitions, shown in numerous Sculpture by the Sea events and many national exhibitions, including Love Lace and the Tamworth Textile Triennial. She is a multi-award-winning artist whose works are held in Council collections. She is regularly commissioned to create public and ephemeral artworks.