Katie Schwab is an artist working predominantly with textiles. Her artworks are stitched, woven, tufted and knitted. These processes also inform her sculptures, prints and installation works. Her practice draws on historic textiles to reflect on moments of personal and social turbulence. Developed through research in archives, community or family settings, her work is shaped in response to personal histories of illness, migration or loss. Schwab’s hand-made and collaborative works process these changes, exploring forms of material repair and affective transformation.

Recent exhibitions and projects include; 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, has recently been co-published by Vleeshal and Dent-De-Leone.