Kerri Wallace

Kerri is a textile designer currently challenging the potential of wearable display technologies in textile design. She aims to further develop 'Motion Response sportswear', revolutionising fitness apparel, designing seamlessly responsive textiles and producing body & motion sensitive wearable displays.

She uses correlations between heart rate and body temperature as a trigger for change and form of visual monitoring, creating evolutional interactive textiles inspired metamorphosis, mutations, biomimetics and mimicry, that characteristically mimic both animal and human species. ‘Biomimetics' for example is a science that looks to nature to solve human problems by imitating nature's greatest ideas and applying these concepts to technology and design. Her project is supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Kerri was a 2006-7 award holder.

Kerri has also worked as a freelance designer for Line Consultants and The Collection design studio. Her skills include silk-screen and digital print design, constructed textiles, fine art and communication design.