Tina Struthers

Tina Struthers (1977) is a Canadian textile artist from Cape Town, South Africa. She is known for her 3-dimensional fabric and mixed media sculptures as well as her Cultural Mediation projects. In 2008 Struthers moved to Canada with her family, first to Ontario, then finally settling in Quebec in 2011. She lives works in the greater Montreal region. 1997–1999 Diploma in visual communication, fine art specialization, Open Window Art Academy, Pretoria, South Africa 1996–1997 Diploma in fine arts, Open Window Art Academy, Pretoria, South Africa Since early childhood Struthers has been assembling textiles. Textiles interest Struthers as they have endless variety, textures, and colours; they also capture movement and are a medium that are available almost everywhere. Struther's work focuses on diversity, integration, human impacts on the environment, social transformation and immigration. She tries to capture flow, or the element of change within her work. Struther's fascination with movement created by the wind, and the sea, began as a child in South Africa. Human displacement and human environmental degradation are viewed by her in the same flow lines as the wind and sea. A part of her interest in migration and refugees she relates to her own migration from South Africa to Canada. CODEX II, Mary E. Black Gallery, 2020, Halifax, Canada CODEX, 2017 Galerie de la Ville, Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada Soixante 17, 2017, Musée Régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Canada Racines au Carre, 2015, Salle Hélène-Rouette, L’Île-Bizard, Canada 16th International Triennial of Tapestry, 2019, Lodz, Poland Contemporâneo, international textile art exhibition, 2019, Brazil WorldTextile Association's International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art; 2019, Madrid, Spain; 2017, Motevideo, Urgguay Scythia, the 12th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, 2018, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine The Brain Project, 2017; 2016, Toronto, Canada International Textile Biennial 2017, Kunststichting Perspektief vzw, Haacht, Belgium Struthers has been involved in various cultural mediation projects throughout the greater Montreal region supported by the municipalities there.