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. In addition, she continues to work on a project that documents the material culture of car dashboards in Toronto. She has a BA from Reed College in Portland Oregon, a diploma from the undergraduate fine art program at the SMFA school in Boston, and a MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle.

For the last several years Childs has been integrating her photographic practice with textile art. She layers photographic images onto silk fabric using screen printing techniques. The imagery comes from her personal history and relationships to the natural world. She is interested in suggesting multiple narrative meanings within the layers of imagery. Childs uses textiles in her artistic practice to add texture and visual depth to the image surface.  This also allows her to build on a long standing interest in exploring the liminality of in-between spaces and material culture. Childs’ new work uses the actual materially of textiles to blend natural and constructed elements to challenge the conventional boundaries of photography and textile art.