Katherine Childs

For the last few years Katherine Childs has been integrating her photography with textile art. She layers photographic images onto silk fabric using screen printing. Imagery from her personal history and the natural world has multiple narrative meanings. Using textiles in Childs’ artistic practice has added texture and visual depth to the image surface.  It allows her to build on her long standing interest of exploring the liminality of in-between spaces and material culture. Her new work uses the actual materiality of textiles to blend natural and constructed elements that challenge the conventional boundaries of photography and textile art.

Katherine Childs is an urban landscape photographer living in Toronto since 2002. Past work Includes documentary landscapes of the diverse places of worship found in Toronto’s suburban employment areas and a series that explores the semiotic codes used to communicate ethnic, class and social identity found in the front yards of downtown Toronto’s neighbourhoods. More recently, Childs has been working with textiles, where screened photographic images are layered onto silk fabric.  Childs has been in numerous group shows, including Gallery 44 Spectra shows, the Plus Arts Festival and “What She Said.” Childs has a BA from Reed College,Portland Oregon, a Fine Art Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Contact: kath@khchilds.com
Website: www.hesschilds.com
IG: @khchilds

May 15 to May 26th, 2024
918 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Sun and Star Rooms

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm to 5pm
Opening reception: Thursday, May 16th from 6-9pm
Artist talk: Saturday, May 18th from 1-3pm