New exhibition from Tammy Kanat

Celebrated Australian fibre artist Tammy Kanat has unveiled her most ambitious body of work to date in a major solo exhibition, Tammy Kanat: Circle of Her, at the Jewish Museum of Australia showing until March 22, 2026. It is the latest Eva and Marc Besen Contemporary Artist Commission to be presented at the museum.

Renowned for her vibrant woven wall pieces and contemporary reimagining of textile traditions, Kanat now turns to immersive sculptural forms in an evocative new direction guided by intuition, ancestral memory and the whispers of female archetypes. These works mark a striking evolution in her practice, transforming her distinctive visual language into a multidimensional experience of presence, creativity and transformation.

“As I began working, I found myself listening differently, not to the materials, but to something internal, and somehow older than me,” reflects Kanat. “These pieces are vessels for presence, intuition and transformation.”

Presented in the intimate surrounds of the Jewish Museum of Australia, Tammy Kanat: Circle of Her invites audiences into a richly layered meditation on feminine renewal, cultural belonging and the power of material storytelling.

The exhibit draws on archetypal feminine figures – matriarchs, muses, ancestral spirits – and honours their influence through seven bold sculptural forms that speak to memory, imagination and intergenerational connection.