Meron Hailu

Meron Hailu
born in 1987
Meron Hailu, born in 1987, is an artist employing the unique technique of making artworks with textile materials and fibers. She is a lecturer at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design and is among a few Ethiopian artists that have mastered textile art. Meron has experimented with yarn and employed various techniques in her artistic practice. Readymade crochet pieces, layers of thread, tightly rolled coils of yarn, cut-up wads of thread all add texture and complexity to her work. She has carefully contoured the landscape of her imagination, offering views into the microscopic inner workings of anatomy and hints at a more tender world