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Katie Schwab’s projects begin with textiles. Her artworks are stitched, woven, tufted and knitted. These processes also inform her sculptures, prints and public artworks. Developed through research in archives, community or family settings, her work reflects on the legacies of post-WWII textiles and civic architecture. Schwab’s hand-made and collaborative works process histories of rupture and loss, exploring forms of material repair and affective transformation.
Recent exhibitions and projects include; Relative Ties, The Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge (2026); a cloud + a fence, The Line, London (2024); British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring (2021-22); small wares, Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands (2021); A Working Building, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art [now MIRROR], Plymouth (2019) and This Interesting and Wonderful Factory, Clore Sky Studio Commission, Tate St Ives, St Ives (2018). Her catalogue Sample Book, designed by Åbäke and edited by Clare Molloy, was co-published by Vleeshal and Dent-De-Leone in 2023.