Sky Carter
Artists biography
Sky Carter is a Sydney based fibre and textile artist who operates under her art practice ‘Sky Carter Colour’. She has spent most of her life experimenting and dabbling with various creative mediums and it was through this journey of exploration that she found her passion in fibre and textile art. Sky now pursues her art practice of weaving and other contemporary textile techniques in her Inner West studio.
Sky’s motivations come through her deeply personal emotional responses to life’s experiences. She is also fascinated by cultural and zeitgeist movements and channels these elements into everything from small touching personal pieces to powerful large-scale installation work.
Completing design studies with a major in colour she is continually developing and evolving her skills through residencies, travel and further education. She has also developed her own range of sustainable weaving tools and looms which she uses to teach her unique weaving style. Sky runs weaving retreats and often opens her studio to nurture up and coming creative talent.
Sky has exhibited her work both solo and in group shows as well as at art fairs.
Current work and inspiration
Birkenhead Point Shopping Centre Installation - 'Lady in the Garden'
This work is created as a response to the current zeitgeist. #metoo movements, acknowledgement of nature as a healing force, global warming and the celebration of female power and energy. Sky installed this work over the weekend and you will be able to see this exciting piece over the next six months at Birkenhead Point.
"I always inadvertently express elements of comfort through my work and in this particular piece the ground is covered in ornate poufs that are like mini comforters, or giant pretty stress balls. Even though this installation cannot be touched it still evokes a tactile response which is a consistent theme in my works".
Upcoming work
Sky is also participating in Sydney Craft Week with her own event 'Craft Party with Sky Carter Colour'. For one exclusive night only, never to be repeated, Sky will let you come and PLAY with all her awesome bundles of yarn, fabric, tools, looms and another way-out things you can’t even imagine
Apart from her studio, her work an be accessed through Etsy, Instagram and her website. She will have a pop up shop this coming November in Leichhardt.
Website and social media links
Website: www.skycartercolour.com.au
Instagram: www.instagram.com/skycartercolour