Katie Schwab works with textiles and installation to explore personal, social and material histories of craft, design and education. Her research focuses on twentieth century domestic interiors, civic architecture and play environments. Embedded in the communities and contexts in which she works, Katie’s long-term projects incorporate collaborative workshops, archival research and craft- based learning.

Katie has facilitated projects with school groups, teachers, early years, families and young people at institutions including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries and Camden Art Centre. She is currently working on a project with Oban High School and National Galleries Scotland.

Recent exhibitions and projects include; a cloud + a fence, The Line, London (2024); British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring (2021-22); The Seeing Hands, Collective, Edinburgh and Bluecoat, Liverpool (2022); small wares, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL (2021) 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.

During this residency, Katie will be researching ‘The Third Teacher’, a new project looking at examples of nature play spaces and modes of engaging with outdoor landscapes and weather systems. She will work with students from John Logie Baird Primary School to explore different modes of engaging with the physical and material landscape at Cove Park.

This residency is supported by The Hugh Fraser Foundation.