An essay to accompany an exhibition of recent work at Newlyn Art Gallery, February 14th – April 18th. Island Bodies Kate Walters These recent works by Kate Walters stand on the cusp of change in her increasingly impressive oeuvre. Fascinatingly, they also position us on many thresholds, each of which works towards complex meanings: they […]
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Exhibition coming up in Newlyn Art Gallery Little Picture Room
The Private View of Island Bodies is on Thursday February 13th, 6 – 8 pm, Newlyn Art Gallery, Little Picture Room, all welcome! There will be short sequences of smaller framed works as well as a sequence of larger unframed pieces. All work is for sale. Details also available at Curatorspace… https://www.curatorspace.com/about/news/kate-walters-island-bodies-exhibition-opening/79
Some text from drafts for Shetland Notebooks and Iona Notebooks
First drafts for Shetland Notebooks Newborn eyeball (walking down from Fitful Head) far-away half face Lamb Feathered bones Crab claw and cairns Rabbit leg bony and still; Haloes of thrift bones of feathers feathers of bones You come to meet me pressing palm against rock, old hand of ages Calloused, warm, […]
New ventures….
Curatorspace have kindly written a great feature on exciting events about to happen: https://www.curatorspace.com/about/news/featured-artist-kate-walters/66 I’m very excited to be heading to Worcester University to speak on my work generated by residencies in Shetland; in particular a strong dream I had where I saw myself before I was born – which has lead to around 500 […]
Notes in the Garden at Tremenheere Gallery. The Tree of thought: an essay by Professor Penny Florence.
TREMENHEERE GALLERY. SEPTEMBER 7TH – OCTOBER 2ND 2019. The Tree of Thought: The Art of Kate Walters Kate Walters’ art speaks clearly. Yet because it is visceral, communicating to our bodies first, it can be easy to underestimate the quality of thought it embodies. Embodied thought addresses the kind of understanding that bypasses […]
Notes in the Garden
Opening September 6th at 6 pm! I have great pleasure in inviting you to my forthcoming exhibition at Tremenheere Gallery, which I am sharing with friends. This body of work has been made in response to time spent in the beautiful gardens at Tremenheere, making drawings and writing about the insights I received from regarding […]
Wells Art Contemporary
I’m honoured to be part of this selected exhibition, opening the evening of July 19th. I’ll be showing 51 works from my recent watercolour sequences, in the beautiful Chapter House of Wells Cathedral. More very soon on my recent wonderful trip to Orkney and Shetland.
Shetland Notebooks – link to a great new review
http://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2019/04/other-ways-of-seeing.html Thank you Rupert Loydell for this great review. A few more images inpsired by residencies on Shetland:
Arusha Gallery March 2019; Shetland Notebooks launch; Ex Libris at Tremenheere Gallery.
Here are two of my works from my recent exhibition at Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh – my first there in five years. I was very pleased with how the exhibition looked; there was a great crowd at the opening on February 28th; and many people bought copies of my new book, Shetland Notebooks […]
New York, Ghost Tide, London, York, new work, thoughts…
Here is the link to the exhibition of British artists from the South West, opening this week at Agora Gallery in New York. https://www.agora-gallery.com/ExhibitionAnnouncement/Discovery_11_10_2018.aspx And this is the link to the page of my work: https://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Kate_Walters.aspx this is one of the works in the exhibition in New York… And in York, U.K., at the […]