Christopher Duncan is a contemporary craft practitioner based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland who specialises in hand weaving textiles. Duncan began teaching himself weaving in 2012, starting on a small loom using gifted materials, the interest grew into making finer more complex cloth. Through larger scale floors looms, weaving in a public space and a library of old and new yarn, Duncan established an oeuvre of work and a personal style. Time and tenacity has resulted in a practice that borders both the creation of physical textiles and the nurturing of a spiritual practice.

Duncan’s work adorns the body in natural tones, blacks and primal colours. His yarn is woven to create structures playing with those colours and the physical natures of the materials at work. For Duncan the construction of the cloth is an abstract process where the mind and body are tested over long periods of time. His practice moves between the making of textile for use in clothing and as object – challenging the idea of artisanal works as everyday useful objects.