About me

I am an artist from West Sussex. The three pillars my work seeks to interrogate are: Grief, Transformation and Divinity.

Becoming widowed in mid-2021 catalysed a profound shift in my work (and all things) and I am currently engaged in producing a new body of textile masks. The themes remain unchanged; however, this work originates from a more personal place of processing my own grief, and aspires to create a liminal place for the wearer to inhabit and feel their own responses, whatever that is.

Not only concealing, but releasing, communing, becoming other, experiencing the otherness and othering of grief, and creating a sacred ritual object.

Marrying symbol and object and experience. Imagining a reinvocation of ancient ways and future practices.

Kate’s work has featured in publications and exhibitions internationally.

She mentors and teaches textile art techniques to students from around the world via her workshops, one-to-one and online classes.

Exhibitions/Collaborations

2023 – The Art of Women, Brush Gallery, Brighton
2022 – Artist in Residence, Mauser Foundation, Costa Rica
2022 – Finalist Mentor, Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery
2021 – Moon, Group show, Brush Gallery, Brighton
2021 – Hand & Lock Embroidered Arts Exhibition, OXO Bargehouse, London
2021 – Finalist Mentor, Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery
2020 – Pura Vida, Group Show, Brush Gallery, Brighton
2020 – Beyond Ruin, Remembrance Day For Lost Species Exhibition, artist and co-curator, ONCA Gallery, Brighton
2020 – Third Kind Records, Bary Center ‘Guide Me Through The Hills Of Your Home’ album artwork
2020 – Shortlisted for David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of The Year – third place winner People’s Choice Award
2020 – Finalist Mentor, Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery
2020 – Artist in Residence, Mauser Foundation, Costa Rica
2019 – Elephant, Group Show, Brush Gallery, Brighton
2019 – Artistic collaboration with Ellie Mac Embroidery, Limited Edition patch series
2019 – International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition, Society For Embroidered Work, Clerkenwell Gallery, London (juried)
2019 – #BeJane Exhibition and Auction for Jane Goodall Institute, Vienna (juried)
2018 – Natural Fibres, solo show, Brush Gallery, Brighton
2018 – Xmas Artist Fair, Worthing
2018 – Accepted as member of the Society of Embroidered Work
2018 – Artistic collaboration with Ellie Mac Embroidery, Limited Edition patch series
2018 – Worthing Artist Open House, Worthing Art Trail
2018 – Brighton Gin Art Prize, 2nd place winner, Brush Gallery, Brighton
2017 – Extinct Icons and Ritual Burials – part of Remembrance Day for Lost Species, ONCA, Brighton
2017 – Third Kind Records, Embla Quickbeam/Graham Dunning ‘Inside Memory’s Head’ album artwork
2017 – Artistic collaboration with Ellie Mac Embroidery, Limited Edition patch series
2017 – Stitch-Up, Brush Gallery, Brighton
2016 – Hex-mas Bazaar, Corridor Gallery, Brighton
2016 – Botanica, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis
2015 – Miniature Art Extravaganza, Ghost Gallery, Seattle

Publications (Books/Magazines/Essays/Online)

2023 – Embroidery Magazine, ‘Of Life & Death’, feature, Jan/Feb issue
2020 – The Art Of Mourning In The Anthropocene, part of ‘Mapping the Anthropocene in Ōtepoti/Dunedin’ symposium, featured artist.
2020 – Stitch Magazine, Interview feature, October/November issue
2019 – Pikchur Magazine, featured artist (US)
2018 – Dark Mountain Anthology, featured artist
2017 – Embroidery Magazine, News feature, Nov/Dec issue
2016 – Homespun Magazine, ‘Best Textile Mushrooms’
2013 – Lily In The Labyrinth (website), Review, October
2013 – Central Library Arts Division (website), Review, July
2013 – She Walks Softly (website), Review, May
2012 – Mr X Stitch (website), The Cutting (And Stitching) Edge feature, November
2012 – Cross Stitcher Magazine, Embroidered Jewellery feature, September issue

Talks/Interviews

2022 – TextileArtist.org, Interview feature
2021 – TextileArtist.org, Interview feature
2021 – Talk, Beyond Ruin: Meet the Artists, ONCA, as part of RDLS 2020
2020 – Interview, Stichery Stories podcast
2020 – Interview, FiberTalk podcast
2018 – Interview, Craft With Conscience, Sarah K Benning
2018 – Interview, Narratives of Artistic Identity, Sol Howard
2017 – Memory Beyond the Human, Time Studies Cluster, University of Sussex
2017 – Unveiling the Cheetah, Booth Museum of Natural History, in association with ONCA, Brighton
2017 – Embellished Talk (website), Interview, June
2013 – Rosie and the Boys (website), Interview, May
2012 – Feeling Stitchy, Interview, August

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