About Kiki
An urban artist
Kiki Peruzzi started her journey in textile art when she was a teenager and started exploring different textile techniques, especially embroidery and other traditional handcrafts.
With her education in Classics, Fine Arts and Literature, Kiki Peruzzi has always been keen to explore the balancing of traditional crafts and materials on one hand and modern life on the other. She founds the encounter of ancient and new, man-made and natural, very fascinating.
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In 2020, during the Covid-19 global pandemy, she came in contact with the felting craft, and it was love at first try! She has been exploring different felting techniques ever since.
About Kiki's artworks
An ancient view on modern art
How does Kiki make her artworks?
Felting is one of the most ancient ways to make cloth from fibers, usually, but not only, wool. The result is a nonwoven cloth that has some characteristics such as durability and being water repellent.
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There are various techniques to felt, but Kiki mostly uses Wet felting.
This means that she uses water, soap and agitation of the fibers to make her magic happen: just a few ingredients to a whole world of imagination and art. It is called wet felting because a small amount of water is used in the process.
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Different fibers can be made to felt together, but the main ones that are used in Kiki's artworks are non-mulesed merino wool fibers. She also sometimes uses other types of wool fibers, silk fabric and silk fibers (either new or upcycled), flax, upcycled cotton fabric, upcycled mixed fabrics or yarns, and so on.
If you want to learn a bit more about felting, go to the What is Felt? page.
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Inspiration
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Kiki's art gets its inspiration from the urban environment where she lives and from the textile materials that she uses.
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A smell, a colour, a shape: the urban environment has so much inspiration to offer the artist, and all of that in a perpetual encounter of heart and feeling with the community that lives the same space.
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Space and art, feeling and place, and, most of all, people making up that emotional space that is an urban environment: this is where a love for art meets the heart of our community, shapes new paths of connection and understanding among people brought together by many different life events.
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Kiki is also a member of IFA (International Feltmakers Association) and is in contact with other textile and felt artists exchanging experiences, inspiration and ideas through the web. As a felt artist, Kiki collaborates as guest blog contributor to The Felting and Fiber Studio.