Shane Waltener

A World Wide Web

The components that make up this installation, inspired by ‘Shetland lace’ techniques, were initially commissioned by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York for the touring exhibition ‘Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting’. A larger version of the piece was later commissioned by RMIT in Melbourne for Federation Square, and exhibited there earlier this year.

A World Wide Web was designed to be installed in circulation or otherwise overlooked and redundant areas of museums and galleries in order to highlight new perspectives and angles of vision on specific features of these spaces observed through the holes in the webs.

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About Shane Waltener

Shane Waltener’s work draws inspiration from craft traditions as much as art history. Sculptures, installations and performance work all reference in some way domestic crafts such as knitting, crochet, lace making techniques, sugarcraft and cooking.

Recent projects by the artist have become increasingly participatory, involving artists, visitors, spectators and community groups in the making of the artworks. Waltener facilitates a process of ‘crafting’ together in order to allow for cultural and social histories relating to these crafts to be freely exchanged. The outcome of the work tells of these particular histories.