In autumn 2012, we partnered with Leicester Print Workshop whose members nominated the artists they felt were the best printmakers working in the UK today and Katherine was selected from their short list of artists.
Based in South East London, Katherine completed a degree in Printmaking at Cambridge School of Art before studying for an MA in Fine Art Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. In 2007 she was awarded the research fellowship in printmaking at the City and Guilds of London Art School and has won numerous awards over recent years including the Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award of Excellence 2010 and the International Print Biennale Solution Group Prize 2009. Katherine was shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Arts Fellowship Foundation Award in Printmaking.
The tension between safety and danger, security and vulnerability, are a central focus of Katherine’s work. The flexibility of her chosen medium, collagraph, allows her to continually add and subtract colour and contrast from the plate or block until, after a lengthy proofing process, she arrives at the finished piece. Her printmaking methods are often experimental and for her there is nothing rigid about the process of print.
Katherine’s prints Stove and Forest Light have been selected by Gill Saunders, senior curator in the word and image department at the V&A Museum, to be included in the V&A prints and drawings collection. This follows the recent purchase of two new collagraphs The Vanishing Land and Outpost by the Palace of Westminster Parliamentary Art Committee for a re-hang of the recently refurbished House of Lords and Millbank Tower.