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Curriculum Vitae Kate Walters M: 07816 098807 [email protected] k.walters_3 (skype) 6 Tremenheere Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2AH www.katewalters.co.uk ; https://ionaartresidencies.wordpress.com ; www.katewalters.co.uk/blog ; @katehorse (twitter). https://vimeo.com/73134126 katewaltersartist (Instagram & Facebook) https://www.millenniumgallery.co.uk/withclosedeyes/catalogue.htm Education and Training 1977/8 Foundation course, Byam Shaw, London. 1978/81 B.A. Hons Fine Art, 2.1. (film, video; tape-slide) Brighton Polytechnic. 1984/5 PGCE Art and Design, Brighton Polytechnic. 1996-2000 Part-time post-graduate Diploma of Fine Art Falmouth University. Awards, Research, Performance and Conferences: 2017-18 Creative Investment Grant (Cultivator) to enable further research on Shetland. 2017 ‘Grace, Grace & Grace’ Performance at Ca’ Zanardi , Venice Biennale, September. 2016 -19 Residency /research at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in preparation for a solo exhibition at Tremenheere Galleries in 2019 2017 Researching early Renaissance alter paintings in Puglia; drawing in caves (January) 2016 Selected to perform at Femtourtruck in Barcelona, October (subject to funding) 2016 Selected as workshop presenter at Drawing as Bridge conference. “ “ 2016 Selected to be workshop leader at Trans-States conference. 2016 Awarded Travel Bursary from a-n to research the Outer Hebrides and Orkney 2016 Research project to the Tyrol region, Dolomites, (self-funded) 2015 Awarded Alumna Award from Brighton University for career successes 2015 Sibillini National Park, Italy, ‘hollow bone work’ with female Saints 2015 Venice Biennale intervention ‘becoming the hollow bone’ drawing project; writing review for The International Times (May/July) and The Press Room.org. 2015 Presented paper on Dark Sound/Space: Generative Absence at Falmouth University 2015 Presented paper on Fallen Animals/own work, University of Aberdeen, March. 2015 Selected to give presentation at Minding Animals Conference, New Delhi. 2014 Presented paper at Minding Animals International Conference, Austria. 2014 Presented a talk on my work at the University of Leicester. 2013 Delivered presentation at ‘Engage’ Summer School in Padua (September); VASW 2013 ‘Go & See’ bursary from a-n to visit Venice Biennale Opening, May 2012 Major award from Juliet Gomperts Trust 2011 Royal West of England Autumn Exhibition, prize winner. 2011 Conference on Art, Science & the Sacred with Prof. F. David Peat. 2010 Drawing Research Network Conference, Brighton, workshop given on consciousness. 2008/3 Short-listed for The Jerwood Drawing Prize (2 works selected in 2008). 2008 Burton Sweet Prize, Black Swan Open, Somerset, joint winner. 2009/7/5 Research trips to Venice Biennale, Rome, documenta, Berlin and Frankfurt. 2004 & 7 Recipient of major awards from Arts Council England, South West. Solo exhibitions: 2017 Most Far Most Loved at Herrick Gallery with Julia Maddison; October 2017 Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnon, Cornwall, with Iona Notebooks launch, May 2017 Falmouth Art Gallery, ‘Limelight’ Falmouth, February 2016 Small works, Little Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery until January 2017 2016 Dean Clough, Halifax, solo show Punctum & Plume. 2015 Millennium (now Anima-Mundi), St. Ives, solo show, With Closed Eyes. 2015 The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, solo show with talk/workshop, February. 2014 Solo show and residency at the New Schoolhouse Gallery in York (with talk/workshop) 2014 Solo exhibition, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh. 2014 ‘Speaking Out’, RA Centre, University of Leicester (with presentation). 2012/3 Solo Show, ‘The Secret Worth A Thousand’ Newlyn Art Gallery, Dec 1st 2012 – Feb 9th 2013 Video of talk given on Opening night available here: https://vimeo.com/73134126 2011 Mysterious Tissue: Of Flesh and Stars, Millennium, St. Ives. 2010 Truro Cathedral, The Body pours out Prayers (with talk). 2009 Surface Gallery, Nottingham (with talk). 2008 Seeing the Shadow, Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance 2007 Approaching Rapture, Goldfish Fine Art (a DVD is available of artist’s talk) 2006 Seeing with the Single Eye, Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance (DVD of talk available) 2005 Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (with talk). Selected recent Juried shows 2017 ‘Perception’ at Cupola Gallery, Sheffield. 2016 Black Swan Open, prizewinner 2016 Fresh Paint Magazine feature selected by Alice Herrick of Herrick Gallery, Mayfair. 2015/11/06/02 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, November. 2014 NSA Critics choice, selected by Laura Gascoigne. 2014 BEEP Painting Prize show, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, autumn 2014 Elysium Gallery & Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado, Drawing show, From Here to There 2012 ‘Revelation’, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield. 2011 Royal West of England Academy Autumn Open show 2010-11 Beasts Royal at Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London curated by Alice Herrick 2010 Ludlow Open, selected by Dr. Yvonne Crossley and David Roberts. 2010 House of Fairy Tales at Millennium, curated by Alice Herrick; live drawing ‘skyped’ to ICA. 2009/05 Artsway Open 09/05, curated by Peter Bonnell, Sway, New Forest, Hampshire. 2009 Birmingham, Visual Exhibition for Art of Ideas II curated by Stephen Snoddy. 2008/03 Jerwood Drawing Prize, curators included Anita Taylor and Emma Dexter. 2008 NSA Drawing Show, The Exchange, Penzance, selected by Kate Macfarlane and Mary Doyle of The Drawing Room, London. 2006 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2005 NSA Critic’s Choice, selected by Prof. Norbert Lynton Recent, future and current selected/invited exhibitions, Fairs, and residencies : 2017/18 Residency on the Shetland Isles, Sumburgh Head. 2018 Dartington, Devon, Exhibition with friend and collaborator, Karen Lorenz 2018 Residency at La Farindola International Artist’s Residency, Abruzzo, Italy, July/August. 2016/17/18 Residency working with the inner lives of plants at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. 2017 Residency at The Mothership, Dorset, April 2016 Cornwall Media Resource show with Karen Lorenz, drawings, animation, monotypes. 2015/16 Residency, Iona, living in a shepherd’s bothy including Open Studios & Artist’s talk. 2015/16 Jam on The Marsh, music festival, working with hollow bone drawing in medieval church, Kent, July. http://www.theromneymarsh.net/history/St_Thomas-a-Becket.htm 2015 Espacio Gallery, London, working with inner seeing/co-creators to make monotypes. 2014 Drawing Show, The Art Stable, Dorset (September). 2013 The Arena, installation collaboration with Susan Bleakley at Newlyn Art Gallery 2013 Collaboration with Mark Vernon (Glasgow-based) on sound work with my dreams. 2012 The Individuation of Flowers, (notes & drawings made in the garden) Kestle Barton. 2012 Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, New Light on Newlyn, with Newlyn Society. 2013/2/11/10 London Art Fair, Islington with Millennium. 2010 ‘Blasphemous’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin 2013/12/11/10 Millennium, St. Ives, Winter Show. 2009 Double Vision at The Exchange Gallery, Penzance, (film), collaboration Karen 2009 Cornish Connection, the NSA at the RWA, Bristol. Curatorial projects and exhibitions 2013 Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, Being at the Edge, March. 2013 The Arthouse Pavilion, Tower Hamlets, curator and organizer of artist group, October. 2013 Freedom From Torture: Drawing the Line, originator & curator of fund-raising drawing show by kind permission of Joseph Clarke at Millennium, Cornwall (£11,000 raised). 2016 Drawing down the Feminine, group exhibition, Newlyn Art Gallery (March 7 – 12th); travelling to The Plough Arts Centre, May-June 2016; and Bridport Arts Centre February 2018. Future events/residencies/shows/collaborations: 2017 ‘Books of Blood’ University of Herts project at the Wellcome Foundation 2018 Residencies/research on Shetland and Italy 2019 Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh launch of Shetland Notebooks with solo exhibition. 2019 Tremenheere Galleries solo exhibition. 2019 Solo exhibition ACE Arts, Somerset, Autumn. Recent employment and experience including teaching, residencies, collaborations: 2017/18 Collaboration with poet Mat Osmond on The Black Madonna; 2016 Organized and taught residential workshop on the Isle of Iona; 2012 – ongoing: Running workshops on drawing /monotype/watercolour at Newlyn Art School. Tutor on Defining Practice, Figure work, & Mentoring year-long courses. 2014/5 Working with Marc Almond (of ‘Soft Cell’) to create all the original artwork for his new album with ‘hollow bone’ process; responding with a series of monotypes. 2014 Creating Drawings ‘I Can Draw Your Dream’ at A Fete Worse Than Death, Hoxton, July. 2013 von Calhau! Working with international artists in residence at The Exchange, two weeks, Jan. 2012/3 Talks and workshops at Newlyn Art Gallery in conjunction with my solo show. 2012/9/6 Appledore Visual Arts Festival workshop leader & demonstrator of practice. 2010 House of Fairy Tales, facilitator in Dreams & Nightmares area at Port Eliot Festival. 2008 Exposure: six days in residence in the Engine Room at the Exchange, Penzance. Essays and Reviews, Radio : Galleries Magazine, May 2017 including feature/review; Coast Radio December 2016 and May 2017 interview about my exhibition of Iona drawings at Newlyn Art Gallery; Penwith Radio March 2016 discussing the exhibition Drawing down the Feminine. BBC Radio Kent interview about ‘hollow bone’ drawing, July 2015. Interview with/essay by Susan Daniel-McElroy, ex-Director Tate St Ives & Oriel Mostyn published in Millennium catalogue With Closed Eyes March 2015. An Open Letter To Kate: an essay by Professor Penny Florence on