- City
- Toronto
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- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 513
Jennifer Raetsen
Jennifer is a Toronto-based fibre artist whose practice examines the relationship between humanity, material, and the natural world. Born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, she studied Graphic Design at George Brown College and worked as a digital artist for over 25 years before shifting to a tactile, hands-on medium.
This transition marked a return to materiality and slowness, informed in part by a lineage of female ancestors whose textile practices continue to resonate through her work. For the past five years, Jennifer has focused on needle felting with wool, a medium that allows her to engage physically and intuitively with form, texture, and time.
She has exhibited her work in over 40 exhibitions across Ontario and the United States. Through her practice, she explores the emotional range of human experience. How we move between grief and joy, often holding both at once. Her work also reflects on the tension of living in a culture that prioritizes the material and external, questioning how we might shift our attention toward more meaningful, intangible forms of connection. At its core, her practice considers how acts of creating can become a form of care, presence, and reconnection.
Jennifer continues to develop a body of work that reflects these concerns, using fibre as both material and metaphor.
She lives and works in Toronto.
