Kate Crilly is an artist and textile designer, specialising in embroidery, print and material innovation.

Working with discarded materials, including unsellable charity shop garments, she develops innovative methods of deconstruction and reconstruction—transforming textile waste into new, scalable surfaces and forms. Kate’s work integrates traditional and digital techniques to propose circular, adaptable alternatives to linear fashion systems.

Kate has a sustained interest in our emotional connections to objects. Her paintings of old toys, packaging and household detritus explore how objects hold memory and how we value one over another. Creating connection through storytelling, nostalgia and colour, Kate aims to provoke discussion about our relationship with waste.