Christie Swallow (MA Cantab, MA RCA, FRGS) is an artist and designer. Their work crafts kinship between species, fosters solidarity through co-creation and encourages exchange through collaborative making. Christie engages with play as a method, ecology as a subject and the more-than-human as stakeholders. With a focus on hope, joy and accessibility, they works through facilitation, making and spatial design.

Christie is currently in residence at the Young V&A as the Designer in the Shed, where they are co-creating bird housing with young people. As 2024/25 Design Researcher in Residence at the Design Museum they researched Parakeets and urban ecology. Christie previously undertook residencies at the European Commission, The University of Birmingham and Hangar CIA.

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Christie has exhibited internationally and delivered programmes for organisations including The Southbank Centre, Kew Gardens, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the BBC. They studied at The Royal College of Art and The University of Cambridge, where they also held a visiting lectureship. They are an honorary fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.