Christie Swallow

Christie Swallow (MA Cantab, MA RCA, FRGS) is an artist and designer. Their work crafts kinship between species, fosters solidarity through co-creation and encourages exchange through collaborative making. 

Their practice engages with environmental struggle, speculative futures and more-than-human entanglements through facilitation, sound and installation design, with a particular focus on textiles.

Christie is currently a designer within the UK Government’s Policy Lab. As 2024/25 Design Researcher in Residence at the Design Museum they researched Parakeets and urban ecology. Christie previously undertook residencies at the European Commission, The University of Birmingham and Hangar CIA. The 2020 recipient of the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship, Christie has exhibited internationally and delivered programmes for organisations including Kew Gardens, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the BBC. They studied at The Royal College of Art and The University of Cambridge, where they also held a visiting lectureship.

As a founding member Anastrophes Collective, Christie hosts host the Anastrophes Podcast. They are an honary fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

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