Kate Goldsworthy

Kate Goldsworthy designs multi-media textiles, from recycled materials, employing both hand-crafted and digital techniques. An interest in sustainable design and a desire to override pre-conceptions surrounding recycling, underpins her work and has encouraged an original response to choices of materials and processes. Inspired by light, transparency and movement her pieces are multi-layered, sheer and dynamic. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2000 with an MA in Textiles focused on Sustainable Design, she has been working freelance on varied design and consultancy projects, as well as lecturing in the Design Department at Goldsmiths, Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Art & Design. Kate works to commission for private and public interiors, as well as for exhibition. Her recent projects include multi-sheer window panels for London restaurant Pied-a-Terre, large textile screens and wall-hangings for an exhibition with the Re-Design collective and translating her textiles into garments for the Crafts Council's touring exhibition Well-Fashioned: eco-style in the UK. Kate is currently working on a research project at Chelsea College of Art & Design entitled 'Material Re-creation: the forward design of thermoplastic waste into 'interim' textile products' looking in depth at the role of new and digital technologies in creating innovative solutions for the recycling of synthetic materials. The project is part of the Ever&Again Research Project based at TED (Textiles Environment Design).