Kate Owens has a print-based practice. Working with movement in opposition to a fixed or sedentary state, her process exercises the body and embraces shifts and stumbles. A graduate of the Royal College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art, Kate won the South Square Trust and Paris Studio Award. In 2011 her work received the Recognition Award from AboT, MAK Vienna. She was a Cocheme Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design from 2012 to 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in a number of public and private collections including Crafts Council Collection, MAK-Vienna and Soho House London.
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Interconnectedness: Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, London
Material Acts from the Craft Council Collection 30 Fenchurch Street, London
Is That All There Is? Cloud Seven, Quai du Commerce 7, Brussels
Ash Rise Drum Castle National Trust For Scotland, Aberdeenshire
2025
Harvest City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Ash Rise Gracefield Arts Centre, Inverness Museum & Gallery, Benmore Botanic Garden
Nepo Baby Fundraiser Old Jet Arts Centre, Suffolk
2024
Ash Rise Touring Exhibition, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
2023
2022
2021
2020
…and the plants and the webs and the splashing Online Screening, TOAST & Crafts Council
2019
2018
A real job is to make something AiR at Lawrence Works, London
2017
Astral Flesh 2-Way Stretch Solo Show, Dolph Projects, London
Shaping the Void II Tannery Arts, London
Summer Show Royal Academy, London
2016
Why Don’t You Put Eyes In Those Holes? Engage at New Walk Museum and Gallery, Leicester
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
2025
THUD Collaborative performance with Hannah Deus Draper, The Chapel at Eden Court, Inverness
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
2024
VACMA Award Glasgow, Creative Scotland
2024
Project Grant, The Hope Scott Trust
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 Residency Award, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
2012
Cocheme Fellowship, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
2011
Artist in Residence, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
2011
Recognition Award, AboT, MAK Vienna
Teaching & Workshops
Current
West Lothian College P/T Lecturer, Creative
2026
Glasgow School of Art Visiting Lecturer, Communication Design
2025
Cove Park Workshop: Pattern Disruptors
2024
Glasgow School of Art Visiting Lecturer, Painting & Printmaking
2024
David Parr House, Cambridge Workshop: Block Print
2023
Glasgow School of Art Visiting Lecturer, Painting & Printmaking
2023
Studio Pavillion, Glasgow Art Tutor
2022
Plat-form Glasgow Lead Artist
2018
Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa Visiting Lecturer
2017
Lancaster University Visiting Lecturer
2013
Royal College of Art: ReachOutRCA Visiting Lecturer
2012
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London Visiting Lecturer
2010
Camden Arts Centre Course Leader
2006
DJCAD Teaching Fellow
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
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, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and Canada.