Tina Marais is a Canadian textile and visual artist, who lives and works in the greater Montreal region. She was born in 1977 in Cape Town, South-Africa. She graduated from the Open Window Art Institute in Pretoria, South-Africa where she studied Visual communication with Fine art specialization, after which the focus of her work shifted to using textile as her principal medium, completing a Masters Degree (MFA ) in Fiber and Material practices at Concordia university in Montreal in 2022.

Her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Invited artist for; BIEN biennale, Slovenia, 2021, World Textile Art Biennale, Miami, USA, 2022,  Biennale revelation-hors les murs, group exhibition in Paris France 2023. Amongst other selected for Material Thinking, China's first International Contemporary Material Art Biennale. Tina Marais creates large scale textile abstractions and sculptural work which attempt to map the unpredictability of human experience and impact of environmental change. Her works engage themes such as cellular and physical metamorphosis, growth change and our journey within the body, but also our journey of transitioning through different environments and spaces.

Tina Marais work considers the entangled matters of materiality, ecological and social structures, and the memories of places and things. Throughout the creative process, she organically embeds her reflection in the fabric, depicting the journey with needle and thread. There is an inexhaustible tension between weft and grain, between the human and non human, webbing of emotional elasticity as Tina Marais map the entangled memories of territories and matter.