Christie Swallow

Christie is an artist and designer who crafts stories through textiles. With a background in architecture, their work investigates our relationship with technoscience and its capacity to distort our vision of nature. By weaving together patchworks of spatial, environmental, and archival research, they offer critical reflections on the hegemonic ways of seeing the world, whilst seeking ways to imagine other possibilities and futures.

Their work patches together new narratives from scraps of our damaged world. Their interest in textiles derives from the medium's capacity to affect people, tapping into our embodied relationship with the materials that clothe us, cover us, and keep us warm, considering how this intimate relationship might be mobilised whilst living within the Anthropocene. Between mythologies of the past and the precariousness of the present, they seek to disentangle the webs of meaning that have shaped our contemporary attitude towards nature and other humans. 

Christie is currently Artist in Residence at SMQB, University of Birmingham. They have exhibited extensively in London and were previously an artist in residence at Hangar CIA, Lisbon. They are a graduate of Environmental Architecture, Royal College of Art (2023) and of Architecture, University of Cambridge (2020).