Katie L J Walker
Fashion and Textile Design BA Hons
Winchester School of Art
Specialisms: Textiles - Knit
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Katie L J Walker
First Name: Katie L J
Last Name: Walker
Specialisms: Textiles - Knit
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My Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
University / College: Winchester School of Art
Course / Program Title: Fashion and Textile Design BA Hons
About
My approach to design delicately curates immersive experience through emotive feeling. Colour, texture and technical applications are my hum of happiness.
I find inspiration through interior spaces, architecture, unexpected details and experiences of life.
My knitted specialism explores fabric that has meaning, conveying serene communication between my design practice and people who interact with my work.
My Final Major Project extends from my previous ‘Aestival Reflections’ journey and further explores natures biophilia through the transient qualities of light, colour, and material. Using knit structure to reflect architecture and sheen like yarns to communicate shifting light into sensory knitted surfaces. By manipulating yarn, colour, and knitted structure my work becomes a method of rendering the transient and sensorial qualities of light within our interior spaces. Curating a subtle and serene connection to nature becomes a part of immersing myself within my practice. Repetition in pattern becomes meditative and choice of colour is always shifting, reflecting natures ephemeral calming qualities. My work entertains a more interpretive approach, where light, material, and making processes collectively blend to curate a space that encourages contemplation, sensory awareness, and an embodied connection to nature through lighting. With the use of monofilament, lustrous mercerised cotton, and lurex yarns. I knitted and designed to a meditative approach on the Dubied, Shima and Domestic machines to convey the sereneness of light through framed window partitions. The predictability of knitted structures reflects the rhythmic and cyclical patterns found in nature, while the fluidity of light interacting with yarn disrupts this stability, creating a balance between order and transient flow. This duality simulates the natural world, where repetition and variation coexist.
Competitions
TEX+ 2026
This project explores biophilic trends in response to the current anxious consumer of our digitally saturated society. Drawing on trend observations and thorough research, it focuses on domestic spaces of comfort and retreat, where individuals seek emotional and physical reassurance. Through lighting ambience inspired by sunlight, shadow, and indirect biophilic reflections, my work evokes a sense of freedom, calm, and natural immersion. A fresh, serene colour palette is harmonised by trickling streaming highlights to mimic sun rays through the use of monofilament. Therefore, enhancing emotional wellbeing. Music also informed my making process, supporting a multi-sensory approach that reconnects our interior spaces with the authenticity and restorative qualities of nature.