Caitlin Hinshelwood

Biography

Caitlin Hinshelwood is a London based educator, artist and designer. Her textiles practice is centred on hand processes with a research focus on historical, ethnographic and folk textiles, crafts and traditions as a way of exploring narrative, community and pattern in a contemporary way. Her interests lie in the narrative possibilities of textiles; how textiles can be used to communicate and how they can act as repositories of personal or social history, as well as act as forms of resistance and protest. Hand dyeing, textile screen-printing processes, hand embellishment and the use of colour are central to her practice.

Caitlin’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally; including the Arts Council funded, solo show ‘Kissing the Shuttle’ at Cecil Sharp House, London. Her textiles have received press in publications such as Crafts, The Observer, Embroidery, World of Interiors and Stylus.


Within industry Caitlin has diverse experience of working within the arts. This includes in-house design at Paul Smith, freelance work internationally across the fashion and interior sectors and working closely with fine art practitioners such as Susan Collis.