Cáit McEniff is an illustrator and textile artist based in Leeds. She produces large handmade fabric pieces and her practice is influenced by storytelling, craft and play. She is interested in folklore, environment, and the relationship between shape, pattern and simplification.
Cáit has been working as an illustrator since graduating in 2020. She is hugely inspired by mid-century design and its emphasis on bold flat shapes, limited colours and printmaking techniques. She has worked with the likes of Hepworth Wakefield, Kirkgate Market, Leeds Playhouse and Bloom Magazine.
During the final year of her degree in Illustration, Cáit became fascinated by textile art and how it has been used across cultures and generations to tell stories, preserve heritage and showcase craftsmanship.
From 2020 onwards she began implementing textiles into her practice, translating her pictures into fabric, producing large-scale sewn pictorial wall hangings. She found solace in this hands-on art form and it has played a huge part in her development as an artist, unlocking a new way of making pictures, prioritising shape, colour and intuition.
Cáit’s textile wall hangings have been sold internationally and have exhibited at The Art House, Wakefield and The Craft Centre, Leeds. Cáit’s practice has been documented in Creative Boom, Living Etc magazine and Sunday Times magazine. She aims to create work which celebrates analogue methods, where the hand of the maker is visible. Indulging in ideas and celebrating curiosity.
