Kathryn Dundas (b. 1971, Montreal) is a Canadian artist whose large-scale quilts blend bold improvisation with deeply personal storytelling. Raised in Calgary as the youngest of five, she was immersed in art from an early age through her father and her godmother, art historian Janet Braide.

Self-taught as a sewist, Dundas discovered quilting in 2014 and quickly developed a distinctive practice that merges instinctive design with physical, large-scale making. Working free-hand with a rotary cutter, she constructs monumental 8 x 8 ft. compositions, often finished with one-handed surgical knots drawn from her medical training.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Color Improvisations 3, Somethings Are Not Easily Seen (National Quilt Museum, Kentucky), and September Dawn (QuiltCon 2015). Dundas also studied under Nancy Crow at the Crow Barn, Ohio.

Balancing her life as a physician, mother, and rancher, she finds vitality in the enduring, tactile quality of fabric: “I come alive when I create.”