About Kate
Kate has been working with clay, predominantly porcelain, for over 25 years.
Ceramics began as a hobby while Kate worked at the BBC after gaining a Communication & Media degree from Loughborough; by 2003 ceramics had a grip on her and she committed to it full time and returned to university. Kate completed her degree in Ceramics at Harrow, University of Westminster, and spent 6 months at New York University with a month residency in Maine. Kate has exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally (America and China).
Through her experiences travelling and working, Kate has always been interested in how people perceive and understand what they see/hear, and then how they act and react to it: "I realise this can be a complex and fluid process - shifting with changing circumstance, knowledge and experience. Trying to capture this fluidly within the clay and express the various energy and movements of experiences, and reactions has been central to my work from the beginning".
About the work
Kate's processes of production have always centred around the wheel; "it’s immediacy appeals to me. Controlling the speed and pressure, I like to push the clay to its limits".
Typically Kate doesn't glaze her pieces as the lines and marks made during throwing help evoke the movement and fluidity she wants to portray.
"I continue to develop new bodies of work as I experience new things and observe the people and landscapes around me."