Katharine Swailes
STUDIO Arundel West Sussex
Web profiles: @katharineswailes @weftfaced www.weftfaced.com
PROFILE
Katharine Swailes has created textiles for over 30 years, working in tapestry since1999. She specialises in both conventional flat wall works and smaller three- dimensional, sculptural pieces - as well as weaving large scale commissions at Atelier Weftfaced and West Dean Tapestry Studio - an interest in the constructively open ended nature of the medium, is at the heart of Katharine's practice.
THEO MOORMAN AWARD — recipient 2016
CORDIS PRIZE shortlisted 2016 + 2019
Film
Harmony and Surprise about the making of Uncovered with Biggs/Collings- by RA Collaborations 2017
ARTISTS TALKS
V&A Museum guest speaker — Tapestries: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque June 23 2019 London Craft Week at The Royal Society of Sculptors, Atelier Weftfaced - 10 May 2018
West Dean Tapestry Symposium —
Uncovered in conversation with Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings May 2017
West Dean Tapestry Symposium - 2015
The Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn — V&A Museum, London, 2012 and 2013?
Discovering Beauty, the Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn — The Fleming Collection, London 2013 ?The New Unicorn Tapestries — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 2008 - 2012.
PUBLICATIONS
Town and Country - March 2019
KraftKind - April 2019
Crafts Council Directory Maker of the week 2 March 2018
House and Garden - Specialist Feature by Emily Tobin, November 2017
Journal of Weaver Spinners and Dyers - Theo Moorman Award interview Winter 2017
Selvedge Blog - Glyphs and Loops - September 2016
Surface Design – Finding the Unicorn by: Katharine Swailes, Summer 2016
The Journal of Weavers Spinners and Dyers - Art Tapestry Play - Commission for Studio Toogood by: Swailes, Katharine, summer 2015
TEX@ATA – From Back to Front curator: Jessica Hemmings.
Online at: http://americantapestryalliance.org/exhibitions/tex_ata/from-back-to-front/ 2015 Campaign for Wool — USA, http://www.campaignforwool.org, 2014 ?
Apollo — Agenda, Apollo’s guide to What’s On around the World in April, 2013
Fabricated Works — The English Home, 2013?
Finding the Unicorn — Scottish Arts News Magazine, Tracey Chevalier, 2013
Elle Decoration - 5 best things in London - Collect at V&A - image of Swailes work April 200
EXHIBITIONS
Arundel Gallery Trail - 2019
Cordis Tapestry Prize - Inverlieth House Edinburgh 2019
Collect Open - Saatchi Gallery 2019
Collect with CAA - Saatchi Gallery 2019
CAA - winter 2019
CAA - winter supporting House and Garden Feature 2017-18
CAA - group exhibition Spring 2018
Chichester Art Trail — Chichester, West Sussex, 2018
Kate Derum Award - 2017
London Craft Week - Hauser and Wirth behind the scenes with Martin Creed 5th May 2017
Artists meet their Maker - Craft Study centre, Farnham 4th April - 1st July 2017
Fly (Cordis Prize) - The Royal Scottish Academy Buildings 3 - 27 December 2016
White Show - Clotworthy House - Antrim, N. Ireland. November 2016 - January 2017
CAA’s Making a Winter’s Tale,16 November - 24 December 2016
CAA’s New Member Showcase - 4 – 27 August 2016
The White Show — Flow, London, Oct 2015 - February 2016
TEX@ATA – From Back to Front curator: Jessica Hemmings.
Online at: http://americantapestryalliance.org/exhibitions/tex_ata/from-back-to-front/ 2015?
Weaving Manhattan — Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel. June 2015 ?
Craft Now — Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 2014?
Finding the Unicorn, Tapestries Mythical and Modern — The Fleming Collection, London, 2013 Collect — Crafts Council Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2011, 2009?
Collect — Crafts Council Exhibition, V&A Museum, London, 2008
COLLECTIONS
Private Collector — Glyphs and Loops The Four Seasons, UK, 2019 Private Collector — Medieval Manhattan UK, 2018
Private Collector — Gold Manhattan, UK, 2015
Private Collector — Rose Manhattan, UK, 2013?
Private Collector — NYC Autumn Park, UK, 2011?
Private Collector — A Castellation of Mille Fleur, UK, 2009 ?Shipley Art Gallery — Citrus Sinensis, Gateshead, UK, 2008?Private Collector — Untitled NYC gold, Japan, 2008
EDUCATION
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School 1974 - 1980
Carlisle College of Art and Design — Northern Diploma in Applied Art and Design 1980-82 West Dean College — Post Graduate Diploma in Tapestry Weaving 1999
West Dean College — professional development in Tapestry Weaving 2000
