Tapestry of Love by Kasane Low

Contribute your own story, memory or message to this evolving participatory installation.

Inspired by personal histories, migration and acts of care, Love Letters brings together hundreds of handwritten contributions suspended within a vibrant sculptural display. As more messages are added throughout the festival, the artwork grows into a collective portrait of connection, revealing the many ways people express love, gratitude and belonging.

Artist statement:

Tapestry of Love is a participatory installation that explores love, memory and gestures that transcend language. The work features hand-rolled paper messages tied with gold wire and suspended like Chinese firecrackers, symbols of celebration, joy and protection. 

Inspired by my Ah Mah, my Chinese grandmother who migrated to Australia, the work reflects on our bond across a language divide. Her love was expressed through food, especially Chinese love letter biscuits: delicate, rolled wafers that could never be read, only tasted. 

Connecting this personal memory to Oxford Street’s layered histories of Chinese migrants living in the area, its market gardeners and vegetable hawkers who created connections with local families through exchanges and gift-giving, alongside its legacy of resilience, community and queer pride, Tapestry of Love celebrates the many ways the city has grown and love is expressed through gesture, care and connection when words are not enough. 

Created through community collaboration, the installation features messages of love, memory and hope written during participant workshops. These collective notes weave a living archive of shared human emotion - an anonymous tapestry of connection that transcends written language.  

Tapestry of Love stands as a testament to the ways we express care and love when words fall short. 

Add your own love letter to an evolving artwork of love, connection and belonging at the Tapestry of Love workshop on 24 and 25 October from 12pm-5pm.

Audience guide:

Private letters will be destroyed at the end of Art and About exhibition. Open letters will be scanned and become part of a living data archive that may be shared on socials, website or projected. The open letters will be considered part of the artwork and kept in the artist's collection.

Artist bio:

Kasane Low is Sydney-based artist living and working on Gadigal and Wangal Country and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Photography, University of Sydney (2012). Through installation, sculpture, performance and photography, her practice explores memory, materiality and cultural narratives through tactile, process-driven approaches. 

Low undertook study at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2011), was an invited artist for the Win Brothers Cup Arts Gobi Desert-Trek, Mongolia (2012) and in 2026 undertook a ceramic residency at Jinxi Art Museum, China. 

Low has been exhibited widely including Sculpture by the Sea Bondi (2025) and Cottesloe (2014), Art on Paper Award (2013, 2017, 2023), Black Swan Art Prize (2014), Willoughby Sculpture Prize (2013), and the Blake Prize (2007). 

Low has won Sculpture by the Sea Bondi, NRMA Artist Subsidy and the Clitheroe Foundation Emerging Artist Mentorship under Dr Guan Wei (2025), People’s Choice, Art on Paper Award (2017), the Emerging Prize (2013).