New textiles tutor: Introducing Katie Taylor

As a new textiles tutor at OCA I have been invited to introduce myself on the #weareoca blog. I am a sculptural installation artist based in Oxford and my work is heavily research based. My research explores the fabric and clothing found in mass graves and its ability to help forensic investigations after atrocity. Memory, individuality and identity are indelibly left behind within materials and belongings including our bones, and the ability to read this information has fascinated me for years.
I work in a variety of media to explore the interface between materiality and memory, questioning how we are remembered beyond death by means of our bones and our possessions. The conceptual and emotional content of objects is particularly interesting to me as a way to reference identity and these objects are often imbued with a sense of the person to whom they belonged.