Marie Hazard (b.1994) is a French weaver who lives and works in Paris, France. Born in Le Havre, she received a BA from Central Saint Martins in 2017 with a degree in textile design. Literature, photography, studies of pastel on paper and abstract paintings are used to question the displacement and the position of the viewer and shape her works conceived on the manual wooden loom. Her works incorporate found materials from flowers outside her studio, discarded tire parts, to diverse fabrics, linen, mohair, recycled polyester, paper yarn, as well as stitched or printed excerpts of texts and her photography. Hazard's multidisciplinary approach to weaving recalls 19th century innovations of the British Arts & Crafts movement's adaptation of techniques that were tailored to our needs yet embraces and welcomes accidents and elements of chance.
