Katie Taylor

I hold a first-class degree in Textiles and am currently completing a PhD at Oxford Brookes University, where my research focuses on materiality, memory and identity in relation to death and remembrance. My artistic practice draws on historical research and forensic anthropology, exploring how individuality can be understood through objects, clothing and materials when a person is no longer present — or even named.

Through sculptural installations and mixed-media works, I examine how we are remembered through the things we leave behind, and how materials can hold emotional, cultural and forensic traces of human life. 

I often work with biodegradable and found materials, allowing fragility and impermanence to remain visible rather than resolved. My work invites reflection rather than answers, encouraging audiences to consider absence, legacy and what it means to leave a mark.

Alongside my artistic and academic practice, I work as a creative life coach, supporting artists, creatives and thinkers who feel stuck, uncertain or disconnected from their work or wider sense of purpose. 

My coaching is grounded in reflective practice, creative thinking and lived experience, offering a calm, thoughtful space to navigate change, creative blocks and big questions — without pressure to perform or produce.

Across both art and coaching, my work is united by a shared interest in how creativity helps us make sense of ourselves, our lives and our place in the world.