Kate Ritchie is a Calgary-based textile artist from Toronto, Ontario, receiving her BFA in Material Art and Design from OCAD University (2020) and has recently finished her MFA in Craft Media at the Alberta University of Arts (2023).
Her practice consists of unweaving and reweaving, focusing on the transformative possibility of radical care, and the infinite ability for objects and people to come apart and back together again, reveling in the hems, selvedges, and seams. Focusing not solely on the weaving process itself, but on the impact of attention, affection and gratitude in the building of relations with objects, spaces, processes, and concepts. The experience of living alongside objects, and the practice of deconstructing and rebuilding the domestic, is in active engagement with a queer experience of the margin, and actively seeks to document queer resilience and resistance.