Thomas Renwart studied
Textiles Design at LUCA School
of Arts, Ghent and graduated
from his masters in July 2019.
Since then he has worked under
the alias Les Monseigneurs.
A place where the medium of
tapestry and woven objects
function as visual art pieces;
Les Monseigneurs works
closely together with Belgian
weaving mills such as Verilin,
Lampe Textiles and B&T
Textilia, as well as the Dutch
Textielmuseum and TextielLab
Tilburg. Also TexLab Liège is a frequent partner in textiles crime.
Since the beginning of the
COVID-19 pandemic that
haunts the world, Thomas
has felt the urge to go back
to essential techniques and
materials. Working without
weaving mills because of
the lockdown, he has been
focusing on embroidery and
quilting as an addition to the
tapestry forms.
By forming a language and
a visual identity within the
medium of applying layers on
a canvas, he aims to merge
the tapestry weaving and the
applied interventions together.
This is an ongoing research.
Floral researches - such as
starting a big herbarium with
flowers from his mother’s
garden, words, analogue to
digital transitions, scanning,
collecting and surface
interventions belong to his daily
studio work.