Kate McKinnon
Artists
Kate McKinnon
team leader
Contemporary Geometric Beadwork Team
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Statement
Since 2011, I've been leading the Contemporary Geometric Beadwork team. Our mission has been to explore the edges of mathematical and geometric beadwork, find the overlaps between this ancient art and the worlds of Nature and science, and use each to help understand the others. We've spent tens of thousands of hours working to solve outstanding questions, add techniques, and bring our finds about surfaces and structure to those who can use them. Our morphing, cycling & spoofing surfaces have overlap with materials science, stealth and chemistry, our modelling structure with physics and topology, and our ways of folding polygons are leading to new ways to work in space and at sea. The bangle below represented two early discoveries.
Artworks

Horned and Layered Bangle
8 x 13 x 13 cm
Sewn Beadwork: precision glass cylinder beads and thread
2013