Kate Park: Weaving a dual identity

After hours and hours working on a piece of textile artwork, it is finished at last. You’re tired, but exhilarated. Then you take another look at your work. You don’t like it. You feel frustrated. Others compliment you but you still feel discouraged.

Textile artist and designer Kate Park struggled to like her own work, too. But then she decided to only make art that stemmed from a real passion; her identity and her faith. It fixed the problem. Not only was she delighted with the outcome, but also she loved the process of making art that was important to her.

Kate Park is a textile nerd. She loves weaving, knitting, fabric design, materials technology and everything related to textiles. Her work consists of woven, knitted and felted textile installations and designs.

Layers of wool act like lines of poetry, representing the layers of past and present, her dual identity and aspects of her faith. The artwork she makes incorporates crisp primary colours alongside blocks of white highlights to achieve a bright luminous quality, with the woven threads creating captivating movement.