Tau Lewis

Place: Toronto

Born: 1993

Biography:

Tau Lewis (born 1993 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Jamaican-Canadian artist working in a variety of mediums including hand-sewn, carved, and assemblage pieces. She uses intricate craft processes to transform found textiles into monumental artworks, building a unique iconography informed by African diasporic communities in an act of agency, resistance and healing. Lewis employs the conceptual possibilities of textiles and their real and imagined lineages – considering the past lives of the materials and how their history manifests in their physicality – as a regenerative process through which to examine identity, the body, interdependence and shared histories.