Katie Schwab works with installation, textiles, furniture and moving image to explore personal and social histories of craft, design and education. Her research focuses on 20th 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.
Current/ Upcoming
Katie Schwab: Sample Book, edited by Clare Molloy, designed by Åbäke, copublished by Vleeshal and Dent-De-Leone
Available from Dent-De-Leone, Tenderbooks, Good Press and San Serriffe
a cloud + a fence, The Line, London
S E A T S F O R B L A C K R O C K, Brighton & Hove City Council and Bridget Sawyers
Commission for Maggie's Centre, Royal Free Hospital, London
Future Plan Collection Project with Simon Worthington, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, ScotlandPast Exhibitions
2022
British Art Show 9, curated by Irene Aristizabal and Hammad Nasar, Hayward Gallery Touring, 2021-22
The Seeing Hands, Collective, Edinburgh
Are you Messin'?, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
Hosiery Abstracts, Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough
Another Crossing, Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage, The Box, Plymouth, UK
2021
Thanks For The Apples, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
small wares, curated by Clare Molloy, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Another Crossing, Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
2020
Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Scottish Art, RSA, Edinburgh
2019
PARADE, a Celebration of Contemporary Art Textiles, Broadway, Letchworth Garden City
Unbounded, The Eden Project, Cornwall
Resist: be modern (again), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
A Working Building, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
2018
Katie Schwab and Quinie, Cairn, Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland
2017
Atrium Commissions, MIMA, Middlesbrough
A room of our own, Idea Home Show, MIMA, Middlesbrough
31 Women, Breese Little, London
2016
Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Space, London
Making the Bed, Laying the Table, fellowship exhibition, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow
Together in a Room, Collective, Edinburgh
Drop City, Hotel Ufer, Düsseldorf And Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle2015
My love is like a red red rose. Art in Scotland from 18th to 21st Century, Musée du Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Backlit, Nottingham and ICA, London
Fresh, British Ceramics Biennial, The Original Spode Factory Site, Stoke-on-Trent
Education
2013-2015 MFA, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (exchange student at Hunter College, NYC, 2014)
2005-2008 BA Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies, Goldsmiths College, London
Projects/ Workshops/ Resources
2024 a cloud + a fence activity pack, designed by Shining Studio, The Line, London
2022 Knitting Machine Workshops, Loughborough University
2019 Stages of Making with the Studio Collective, Horniman Museum and Gardens, London
Artist Intervention Week, University of Hertfordshire
2018 This Interesting and Wonderful Factory, Clore Sky Studio Commission, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
Knots, Family Day, BALTIC, Gateshead
Schools Workshops, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
Wear Ware, glass- blowing workshop with Jeffrey Sarmiento & Jim Maskrey, National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland
2017 A Portable Mural, Architecture Family Pack, Serpentine Galleries, London
Film-Making Workshops, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
Ground Meets Horizon, Summer School, Collective, Edinburgh
We Are Family Residency, Arnolfini, Bristol
2016 Dear friends, Serpentine Galleries, London
ZigZag, Circle, Pillar, The Beehive at Porthmeor Studios with Tate Learning, Tate St Ives
2014 Work Hands, British Folk Art Open Studio, Tate Britain Learning Gallery, London
We Forgot the Lot, Touretteshero/ Tate Britain, London
'T is for Tuttle', 'T is for Turner Prize', 'T is for Late Turner', with Monica Rivas Velasquez and Schools and Teachers, Tate Learning London
2012-13 Schools and Teachers Workshops, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London
2009-present Workshops with Tate Modern, Tate Britain, London; Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Arnolfini, Bristol; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and Pier Arts Centre, Stromness; The Common Guild, Glasgow; Camden Arts Centre, London; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.
Teaching
2017- present Visiting Fine Art Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art; University of Gloucestershire; Goldsmiths; Plymouth College of Art; Sunderland University; Newcastle University, Northumbria University; West Dean College.
Residencies
2022 The Handicrafts Residency, Loughborough University, Loughborough
2021 Visual Arts Residency, Cove Park, Scotland
2019 The White House, Dagenham
2017-19 Design Residency, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
2018 West Dean College, Sussex
2017 The Cornwall Workshop, Kestle Barton, Cornwall
Wilhelmina Barns- Graham Residency Award, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall
2016 Nigel Greenwood Art Prize Residency, Longformacus, Scottish Borders
2015 Graduate Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
Awards/ Funding
2024 Stephen Palmer Travel Bursary
2020 Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England
Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award Scheme
a-n Artist Bursary
2019 Shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery
2018 Deborah House Studio Bursary, New Contemporaries/ SPACE, London, 2018-19
2017 Wilhelmina Barns- Graham Residency Award, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
2016 Nigel Greenwood Art Prize
The Elephant Trust
Dewar Arts Award
2015-16 Satellites, Collective, Edinburgh
Glasgow Sculpture Studios MFA Graduate Fellowship
2015 RSA John Kinross Scholarship
Press2024 Seven Questions with Megan Piper, Art UK
2022 Katie Schwab: small wares, Victoria Anastasyadis, The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 15, 2022
Framing the Debate, Big Issue North, 07 June 2022
2021 Another Crossing, Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage, Iris Moon & Glenn Adamson, British Art Studies
2020 Art Guide, Homes and Interiors Scotland, November/ December 2020
The Power of Creativity, Harper's Bazaar, July 2020
2019 A Working Building, Round One Films
A Working Building, Cover, Summer 2019
Working Building, Selvedge Blog
A Celebration of Shape and Colour, Megan Williams, PCA Blog
2018 Homes and Interiors Scotland
An interview with Laura Smith, Art Cornwall
2017 In response to: a walk led by Alexei & Katie Schwab, Jessie Bond, Up Projects
Future Greats, Selected by Ben Street, Art Review
2016 Interview with Rosanna Mclaughlin, Studio International
The Female Cover, Philomena Epps, Jerwood Visual Arts
Jerwood Solo Presentation, William Rees, http://thisistomorrow.info
Making the Bed, Laying the Table, Laura Campbell, The List
Edinburgh and Dundee roundup, Catherine Spencer, April 2016, Art Monthly
Together in a Room, Joy Harris, http://thisistomorrow.info
2015 New Contemporaries 2015, 22 Sept 2015, a-n
Emerging Artists, GSA Supplement, June 2015, The Skinny
2013 The Palace of Green Porcelain, by Marie D’Elbee, August 2013, http://thisistomorrow.info
2012 Jamie George & Katie Schwab- Growing Up? www.dreck.co.uk
2010 'Rosanna McLaughlin and Katie Schwab: L'Usine Abandonnee' reviewed by Rebecca Lewin, thisistomorrow.info
Catalogues
2023 Katie Schwab: Sample Book, edited by Clare Molloy, designed by Åbäke, copublished by Vleeshal and Dent-De-Leone
2021 Thanks For The Apples, Falmouth Art Gallery
2020 British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring
2019 Resist: be modern (again), ed. Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, New Contemporaries, London
Talks
2016-24 Artist talks at The Whitworth, Manchester; The Box, Plymouth; University of Gloucestershire [online]; Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth; Tate St Ives, St Ives; West Dean College, Sussex; SCVA, Norwich; Camden Arts Centre, London; Paul Mellon Centre, London; Northumbria University, Newcastle; Sunderland University, Sunderland; Porthmeor Studios, St Ives; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
Keynote Speaker at Making Futures Conference, Plymouth College of Art (2017) and The Creative Curriculum, BALTIC, Gateshead (2017).Collections
MIMA, RSA
Other
Trustee, Wilhelmina Barns- Graham Trust