Nina Kruger is a contemporary fibre artist whose practice engages in an ongoing dialogue with the environments and materials that surround her. Fascinated by plant, animal, and human-made materials, she collects, transforms, and reconfigures them into hybrid forms, exploring the interconnectedness of all animate and inanimate entities. Each fibre, fragment, and found object carries its own history, agency, and potential, unfolding into a continuous process of transformation.

Guided by philosophical frameworks such as Posthumanism and New Materialism, Kruger approaches materials as active participants in the creative process. Her practice is inherently collaborative, embracing contingency and allowing materials to dictate their own evolution within the work.

At the core of her methodology is a distinctive felting technique—repetitive, meditative needlework that fuses fibres through rhythmic punctures, gradually revealing new hybrid forms. This slow, intentional process mirrors the accumulation of time, place, and experience, embodying endurance, patience, and an acute sensitivity to materiality. Through this approach, her work dissolves the boundaries between nature, object, and maker, inviting a reconsideration of material agency and transformation.