Curriculum Vitae  Kate Walters
 

Drawings and paintings are in private collections in the U.K., Australia and Europe.
Full member of Newlyn Society of Artists and committee member.

Interview: www.artcornwall.org/interviews/KateWalters.htm


Education, Training, Research, Conferences and Awards:
  2008/3     Short-listed for The Jerwood Drawing Prize.
2008        Burton Sweet Prize, Black Swan Open, Somerset, joint winner.  
2007/9     Research trips to Venice Biennale, documenta, Berlin and Frankfurt.
2007        Recipient of second major award from Arts Council England, South West.
2006        Independent delegate at Artes Mundi International Conference in Wales.
2005        Awarded travel bursary to Venice Biennale by Arts Council & Creative Skills.
2005        Two solo trips to Berlin to research galleries, part funded by ACE.
2004        Recipient of first major award from Arts Council England, South West.
1996-00   Part-time post graduate Diploma of Fine Art University College Falmouth
1984/5     PGCE Art and Design, Brighton University.
1978/81   B.A. Hons Fine Art,2.1.(working with film, installation, text, video, tape-slide)  
                Brighton University.

Employment and experience:
  2009        Part-time mentor with RIO (Real Ideas Organization)
2008 & 9 Invited exhibitor and demonstrator at Art in Action, Oxfordshire.
2008        Exposure: six days in the Engine Room at the Exchange,
                Penzance, sharing my work and ideas with visitors to the gallery.
2004 - present ;Visiting artist at Cornwall College on Foundation Degree courses.
1986 - 2000 Teaching Art and Art history in secondary schools and colleges including Acting Head of Department, twice; leading workshops and courses.

Solo shows:
 

2009   Appledore Visual Arts Festival, Devon.
2009   Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
2008   First Breath, Last Breath, Waterloo Gallery, London.                                                                                 
2008   Seeing the Shadow, Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance
2007   Approaching Rapture, Goldfish Fine Art (a DVD is available of artist's talk)
2007/9   Todd's Gallery, Hastings
2006   Seeing with the Single Eye, Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance (DVD of talk available)
2005 - 2006  Beaford Arts Centre, Devon
2005   Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2004   Transitions 5 Newlyn Art Gallery   
2003   Riverside Gallery, Orleans House, London

Forthcoming solo shows:
  2010     KUBE, Poole
2010     Truro Cathedral
2010     Millenium, Cornwall

Two person shows:
  2008  Keighley Arts Factory, Yorkshire, with Susan Stark
2007  The Tricycle Gallery, London, with Orly Orbach

Selected  Exhibitions  [Group] :
  2009  Artsway Open 09, Hampshire.
2009  Salisbury Open Drawing
2009  Double Vision at Exchange Gallery, Penzance, (NSA), with Karen Lorenz.
2009  The Plough Arts Centre Open Drawing, Devon.
2009  Birmingham, Visual Exhibition for Art of Ideas II curated by Stephen Snoddy
2009  Cornish Connection, the NSA at the RWA, Bristol.
2009  Surface Gallery, Nottingham, Open 2 'Particles Particles'
2008 &03 Jerwood Drawing Prize, [two drawings selected in 08] London and touring.                                                            
2008   NSA Drawing Show, The Exchange, Penzance, selected by Kate Macfarlane    
            and Mary Doyle of The Drawing Room, London.               
2007/8/9 The Women's Art Show, Fairfields Arts Centre, Hampshire
2006/7/8/9 The London Art Fair with Goldfish Fine Art.
2007   Images of the Divine, Orleans House, London
2007   Margins, Sherborne Open, Sherborne House, Dorset
2007   Art Now Cornwall? Goldfish Contemporary Fine Art
2007 & 2006  Cupola Gallery [Sheffield] Open Exhibitions
2006 & 2004  Sefton Open, Atkinson Gallery, Southport
2006 & 2002  Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2006    NSA Summer Show, Goldfish Contemporary Fine Art
2006    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 
2005    Artsway Open 05, Hampshire
2005    NSA Critic's Choice, selected by Prof. Norbert Lynton
2004    Newlyn Art Gallery, Drawing?
2004    Critic's Choice, selected show by John Russell Taylor, Newlyn Art Gallery
2004    Royal West of England Academy
2003    Art Works in Mental Health, RCA 2003 and touring to Birmingham
            Museum and Urbis in 2004.                                                 
2003 & 2004 Art, Age and Gender; selected exhibition by Foundation for Women's Art,
            London, May 2002 and travelling to the Usher Gallery.

Publications and essays: 
  Art in Action, fully illustrated catalogue, July 2009.
Visual; fully illustrated catalogue published by Arts & Business, 2009
'Becoming Sanguine', an essay on Kate's work by Professor Penny Florence, July 2009.
Seeing the Shadow, fully illustrated exhibition catalogue, Goldfish, Nov 08.
Galleries magazine, Nov. 08, illustrated review by Laura Gascoigne;
Proof, autumn 2008, Journal Extract and illustrated review by Stephen Lee;
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003 and 2008, illustrated catalogues;
What do you feel? Emotional Learning Cards, co-published by Institute of International Visual Arts and A Space. June 2008.
Approaching Rapture, fully illustrated catalogue, with an essay by Rupert Loydell.
Move, fully illustrated catalogue, Goldfish at Vyner Street, October 2007.
Illustrated feature in Sussex Life, September 2007
Margins, Sherborne House, fully illustrated catalogue, July 2007
Cover page of a-n magazine, February 2007
Discerning Eye, illustrated catalogue, 2006
Seeing with the Single Eye, fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Partou Zia
Art Works in Mental Health, illustrated catalogue, 2003
Art, Age & Gender, Foundation for Women's Art show, illustrated catalogue, 2003.