Katherine Childs

For the last few years I have been integrating my photographic practice with textiles. I layer photographic images onto silk fabric or canvas using screen printing techniques. The imagery comes from my personal history and the natural world. I am interested in suggesting multiple narrative meanings within the layers of imagery and I use textiles in my artistic practice to add texture and visual depth to the image surface.  This also allows me to build on a long standing interest in exploring the liminality of in-between spaces with material culture. My new work uses the  materiality of textiles to 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 she has been working with textiles, where screened photographic images are layered onto silk fabric. Childs has been in many group shows, including the numerous Gallery 44 Spectra shows, the Plus Arts Festival and “What She Said,” and DesignTO shows with other members from the Contemporary Textile Studio Co-op at 401 Richmond. Childs has a BA from Reed College in Portland Oregon, a diploma from the undergraduate fine art program at the SMFA school in Boston, and an MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Contact: kath@khchilds.com
Website: www.hesschilds.com
Bluesky: khchilds.bsky.social
IG: @khchilds

May 6th to May 17th, 2026
918 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Sun and Star Rooms

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm to 5pm
Opening reception: Thursday May 7th from 6-9pm
Artist talk: Saturday, May 9th from 1-3pm