Tuesday 24 August 2010

Katie Pratt - Presenter Biog

Fig. 2 – Sascheckewan (2007). Oil on canvas, 200 x 250 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Kontainer.

Katie Pratt

Senior Lecturer BA Painting Katie Pratt studied Painting at Winchester School of Art (BAhons) and Royal College of Art (MA). She won the Jerwood Painting Prize in 2001 and was awarded an AHRC Fellowship at the University of Southampton.

The paintings meditate on the making-process itself and the thinking that sustains my studio practice. Paint is simultaneously celebrated and treated with irreverence as it is thrown and splashed about. Each painting - through painstaking detailing - illustrates the thought process that has retrieved a rationale from the chaotic beginnings of poured paint.

Recent and forthcoming group exhibitions include Landscape Confection at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, touring to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston & Orange County Museum, Los Angeles; Cold Climates at the Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, New British Painting: Part 1 at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and Approaching Content at the Crafts Council Gallery, London which toured to the Harris Museum, Preston. Solo exhibitions include Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles; Forum d'Art Contemporain, Sièrre, Switzerland and Houldsworth, London.

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