• Tia's woven panels are formed with repeating codes derived from architectural sites
• She paints flattened motifs from sites directly onto her weavings
• She works with silk, linen and cotton on horizontal floor looms

A prescribed restriction at art school led Tia Ansell to her current practice of weaving. "I was asked to make an artwork in which painting was forbidden. I chose weaving and never looked back," she says. Tia started working on a vertical loom she built herself, but it was a horizontal loom gifted by a friend that helped establish her signature technique of using floor looms with natural textiles such as silk, linen and cotton. The vibrant geometric patterns in her weavings are inspired by repeating codes derived from measuring architectural sites through cross sections or slices of locations. Tia then paints simplified, flattened motifs from the same structure on top, hiding and revealing elements of the weave. In doing so, she continues a tradition of retelling stories about environments through textiles, reimagined for contemporary life.