Greta Coalier

Greta Coalier’s handwork has always been a tool of survival, shaping how she processes memory, control, and resistance. She uses cloth, color, and form to map both internal landscapes and external systems of power. Domestic materials—often dismissed as decorative—become her language of repair and refusal.

By combining fabrics from her own life with salvaged textiles, plaster, and mixed media, she creates surfaces that hold memory, trauma, and adaptation. Fugitive colors, which fade and shift, echo impermanence and the resurfacing of pain.

Her sculptural series Obedience Units, built through repetitive stitching and knotting, transforms stillness into assertion—making emotional labor visible and material intelligence central.