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Emma Desirée Comer

Emma Desirée Comer works at the intersection of weaving and sculpture. Using discarded fishing ropes as her primary medium, she explores tension as both a physical and conceptual force through weaving and knotting. In her woven works, she translates the structural qualities, tension, and tactile character of rope into tapestries, while her sculptural practice reimagines the material through processes of transformation and traditional craft techniques.

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Emma Desirée Comer (26.02.2001) is a textile designer and fiber artist from Belgium, currently working between Belgium and the United States while pursuing an MFA in Weaving at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Her practice exists at the intersection of art and design, with a particular focus on sculpture and woven forms.
Materials often perceived as discarded, unusable, damaged, or without function serve as the starting point for her work. She engages with materials that have already lived a life and carry visible traces of use, time, and environment.

Centered on processes of reuse and transformation, her work embraces the used, the discarded, and the unpolished rather than concealing them. Traces of wear, repair, and change remain visible and essential, becoming integral to the meaning and identity of each object.

Rooted in a maritime context, Comer works primarily with discarded fishing rope, a material deeply connected to labor, craftsmanship, landscape, and time. Through traditional knotting techniques, she transforms this rope into sculptural works while preserving its original texture, damage, and variations in color. By retaining these material histories, her practice explores the relationship between value and transformation, inviting a reconsideration of what is often overlooked or cast aside.

EDUCATION

2025-2027

Rhode Island School of Design  RI – MFA Textile Design – Weaving

2023-2024

LUCA School of Arts Ghent – Textile Design MA

2023

Weissensee Kunstshulle Berlin – Textile Design BA

2020-2023

LUCA School of Arts Ghent – Textile Design BA

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2027 Mexico Art Week, Alcova

2026 Tale Art Gallery: “Talking Threads”,Ghent.

2026 Curated, Brussels.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

2026 RISD Textiles Biennial: “Handle with Care”

         Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

2025 Collabaration with WONDER Festival x XANDRES x EMMA,

         Kortrijk.

2025 Joana Schneider – OTHERWORLDY, Groninger Museum.

2025 Belgian Art & Design Affair (BADAFF), Ghent.

2024 Dutch Design Week

         “Interwoven LUCA meets LUCA”

2024 Youth Expo WaTF, Kortrijk.

         “Woodcrafts And Textile Futures”

2024 WONDER Festival, Kortrijk.

        “WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION”

2024 Vitrine of JUTTU, Meir Antwerp.

2024 The end-of-year exhibition of Textile Design MA

        “Where do we go from here”

        at Landgoed De Campagne Ghent.

2023 The end-of-year exhibition of Textile Design BA

        “Things that take time” at CAMPO Boma Ghent.