Dallas, Texas
Website: KathrynSullivanRestoration.com
Social Media: @KSullivanRestoration
About the Artist
Kathryn is a woodworker focused on restoration and conservation. Informed as a cultural and legal anthropologist, Kathryn treats the trade with a blend of artistic academia and practical woodworking. Their creative focus is to challenge tradition in both word and practice, and they bring intersectional approaches to the study and creation of wooden decorative art. Kathryn is a guest instructor at the American School of French Marquetry, a contributing writer for Fine Woodworking, and an enthusiastic member of the Furniture History Society.
Artist Statement
To challenge the consumption of fashion, colonization, and material culture in general, these chairs were built of scrap lumber. They re-articulate regularly tossed out “waste” from custom home construction and counter reproductions that further a muddy global supply chain of imported trees and devalued labor.