Kasia Töns is a textile artist living and working on Peramangk and Kaurna Country. Her practice is grounded in hand embroidery and mask-making. Through labour-intensive processes and materiality, her work centres the handmade and tactile experience as a counterpoint to increasingly digitised modes of living and communicating.

Töns’ practice is driven by an ongoing investigation in attention, intimacy, and identity. These ideas intersect with her engagement with the Anthropocene, where she reflects on ecological precarity, human entanglement with non-human systems, and the shifting dynamics between species. Often working with hybrid or ambiguous forms—part human, part creature, part object— to suggest fluid identities and interconnected existences.

Töns has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally. She has undertaken residencies in Australia, Iceland, the United States, Latvia, and the Slovak Republic, experiences that have informed her sensitivity to place, environment, and cultural exchange. Her work is held in private collections as well as in significant public collections, including the Rothko Art Center in Latvia, Artbank in Australia, and Ararat Gallery TAMA.

She is currently a studio member at Central Studios in Kent Town.

photo Tom McCammon