Christie Swallow

Christie is an artist and designer. Their work engages with topics of ecology, technoscience and heterodoxy through with sound, installation, textiles, collaborative drawing, and archival research. Their practice forefronts engagement and co-creation, seeking to create participatory art and design processes.  Christie is currently Design Researcher in Residence at the Design Museum's Future Observatory, where they are researching Parakeets and Urban Ecology through textile countermapping, guided walks and creating more-than-human music. They have previously undertaken residencies at the European Commission, The University of Birmingham and Hangar CIA. The 2020 recipient of the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship, Christie has exhibited widely and previously studied at The Royal College of Art and The University of Cambridge, where they also held a visiting lectureship.