About

Katherine Coyne is a sculptor and fiber artist whose practice centers on accumulation, repetition, and slow, process-based making. Through bundled fabrics, soft forms, and layered surfaces, she explores cycles of memory, bodily rhythms, and emotional patterns such as fixation and compulsion. Her work often incorporates repurposed textiles, allowing each piece to carry traces of previous time and use. By binding, knotting, and embedding objects, she creates dense, tactile forms that hold both personal and material histories.

Katherine received her BFA in Art Education from Western Carolina University in 2019, graduating magna cum laude from the Honors College. She spent five years teaching middle school art in the Metro Atlanta area before beginning her MFA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Sculpture at Clemson University. She is currently a teacher of Record at Clemson University.



ARTIST STATEMENT:

I work through repetition, accumulation, and slow, process-based making. My sculptures and paintings develop through cycles of gathering, layering, and binding, where materials are built up over time rather than resolved all at once. This pace allows the work to hold duration, attention, and a sense of lived process. I often use saved or repurposed fabrics, remnants, and found objects. These materials carry their own histories, which I compress, knot, and embed into dense forms. The act of bundling becomes both physical and psychological, reflecting patterns of fixation, compulsion, and care. Through this accumulation, the work holds tension between comfort and unease, softness and weight.

My practice is closely tied to memory and the body. I think about how experiences are stored, distorted, and revisited over time. Forms shift between bodily and abstract, familiar and ambiguous, resisting a fixed reading. Across media, I am interested in how materials can carry emotional residue and how process can act as a way of working through it. The work does not aim to resolve these patterns, but to hold them, giving form to rhythms that are ongoing and unresolved.