
About:
Kate Hasted is a textile artist and designer based in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Her work focuses on printed textiles with a specialism in water based marbling techniques. Kate has over twenty years experience in creating designs and artworks for a diverse range of clients. For fourteen years she created textile collections for top fashion houses in New York, selling for inspiration and within final collections. In 2011 Kate created her own label, designing and making silk scarves, silk jewellery, cushions and artworks. Kate has exhibited her work in galleries and shows throughout the UK including the National Centre for Craft and Design, The Hepworth Gallery and MADE events to name a few.
In 2015 and 2016 Kate was invited to exhibit and demonstrate at the Hankyu British events in Osaka and had seen her work shown across multiple department stores in Japan. She has worked with prestigious clients such as The Guildhall Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, who in 2016 commissioned Kate to create jewellery for their Picasso Portraits exhibition shop.
Kate's marbling investigates the balance of pattern, colour and shapes as they materialise and transform on the surface of water. Through extensive sampling and experimentation of colour, over printing and sometimes digital design she seeks to create striking and beautiful accessories for fashion and the home. Looking to develop her practice towards more eco friendly processes, in 2023 Kate was selected for the Natural Dyeing course with at Ditchling Museum of Art, taught by renouned natural dye expert Jenny Dean.
Since completing the course Kate has been working to increase her knowledge of natural dye techniques, aiming to grow her own plants to dye fabrics and create pigments to use within her marbling practice. Whilst on the course Kate was introduced to the technique of eco printing and has been experimenting with the technique to create botanical printed scarves using locally foraged leaves and flowers.
Creative Workshops and Talks:
Kate runs private workshops at venues across Kent and is a tutor at The Oast Studio in Hartfield where she runs Suminagashi marbling and Botanical Printing workshops. To find out more about workshops please visit my workshop page here
Background: Community Arts and Participatory Workshops:
Kate has over twenty years experience working on creative community projects and participatory arts with adults and children. She has worked with diverse community groups via Adult Education outreach, community projects within Schools and via charities such as Imago, Headway, and The Brain and Spine Foundation.
Qualifying as an Arts Counsellor in 2022 in Transpersonal Art Therapy from the Tobias School or Art and Therapy, Kate is passionate about the benefits of the arts and creativity to aid wellbeing and good mental health, beleiving that everyone has innate creative ability and is keen to work with clients and groups to explore this. Kate works for the Brain and Spine Foundation as their Arts Counsellor, developing the Neuro Creatives online arts for wellbeing groups and peer support groups for those living with neurological conditions.
From 2021 - 2023 Kate co-run and developed the Dandelion Cafe for older adults, and from 2021 - 2024 managed the Bridges Creative Cafe, both held in Edenbridge in Kent.
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