Kate Owens

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Kate Owens has a print-based practice. She generates motifs through unlikely channels of performance and participatory workshops. Alongside exhibitions and commissions she produces a small range of products from her studio in Glasgow. A small selection are currently available from Welcome Home in Glasgow. The studio is run with sustainability in mind, using low impact materials such as linen, solvent-free ink and natural dye. For any enquiries please get in touch...

 

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

2024

Ash Rise Touring Exhibition, Opening at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

 

2023

History In The Making Compton Verney, Warwickshire

 

2023

Craft Scotland @ Collect Somerset House, London

 

2022

SKU Sierra Metro, Edinburgh

 

2021

My Kid Could've Done That Holburne Museum at The Edge, Bath

 

2020

…and the plants and the webs and the splashing Online Screening, TOAST & Crafts Council

 

2019

Habitat JGM Gallery, London

 

2019

Living Is A Problem Pi Artworks, London

 

2018

A real job is to make something AiR at Lawrence Works, London

 

2017

Astral Flesh 2-Way Stretch Solo Show, Dolph Projects, London

 

 

2017

Shaping the Void II Tannery Arts, London

 

2016

Why Don’t You Put Eyes In Those Holes? Engage at New Walk Museum and Gallery, Leicester, UK

 

2016

True Spirit Galerie Allen, Paris

 

2016

Short-term Storage Holly Hendry & Kate Owens, Limoncello Gallery, Cork Street, London

 

2013

A Mangy Gherkin on a Horse-dung Ground Solo Show, Limoncello, London

 

The Only Possible Room Solo Show, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh

 

2012

The Pond and the Stream Solo Show, The Goma, Madrid

 

2011

Carriers Solo Show, Seventeen, London

 

2009

Personal Bow Solo Show, Dicksmith Gallery, London

 

2007

Tommy Grace & Kate Owens Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

 

performances and Participatory Projects

 

2024

Linen Solo (winter roof terrace) Part of the launch event programme for Jacqueline Poncelet: Material World at MIMA, Middlesburgh

 

2022

Swish, Track, Super-Glide Things To Do Commission, Worksheet & Online Workshop, Foundation Press/MIMA, Middlesburgh

 

2021

Art For Grown-Ups Workshops & Installation, North Edinburgh Arts, Edinburgh

 

2019

Public – You & Me Workshop & Installation, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

 

2019

Emotes Workshop, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh

 

2019

Block Print (and dance if you want to) Workshop, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

 

2018

The Shadow of Your Shadow Performance, AIR at Lawrence Works, London

 

2014

Hard, How Hard? Harder Than That Live Radio Play, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

 

Residencies and Awards

 

2022

Artist in Residence, Studio Pavilion, House For An Art Lover, Glasgow

 

2020

Artist in Residence, TOAST in partnership with Crafts Council

 

2016

Project Grant, The Elephant Trust

 

2015

Artist In Residence, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

 

2013

Defining Pi, Research Award from Wysing Arts Centre & Raspberry Pi Foundation, Cambridge

 

2013

Creative Initiative Award, Residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh

 

2012

Cocheme Fellowship, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London

 

2011

Recognition Award, AboT, MAK Vienna

 

Press / Publications

 

2023

Art and Craft Art Mag UK, Susan Mansfield, Feb 3 2023

 

2023

Artisanal Excellence The Skinny, Stacey Hunter, Jan 2023

 

2020

Making Her Mark Craft Magazine, Debika Ray, Nov-Dec 2020

 

2016

Limoncello pop up in Mayfair FAD Magazine, Mark Westall, 13 Oct 2016

 

2016

Looking At Painting Vol.II Published by Jessie Churchill, Leeds

 

2013

A Mangy Gherkin on a Horse-Dung Ground Art Review, Sean Ashton, Dec 2013

 

2011

Kate Owens-Carriers Time Out London, Helen Sumpter, Apr 2011

 

2009

Kate Owens-Dicksmith-London Flash Art, Dean Kissick, Nov-Dec 2009

 

2009

Tommy Grace and Kate Owens Frieze Issue 113, Neil Mulholland, Mar 2008

 

Education

 

2006—08

MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art

 

1998—02

BA, Edinburgh College of Art

 

collections

 

Crafts Council Collection, the national charity for Craft UK

 

MAK-Vienna, Artists’ Books Collection, Vienna AT

 

Vault 100, curated by Kate Bryan, The Ned, London UK

 

Soho House, curated by Kate Bryan, 40 Greek Street, London UK

 

Private Collections, in the UK, Netherlands, Switzerland and Canada.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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