Artist statement
My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.
The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric of the believer, and this subject matter is then reconfigured for the specific situation for which I make my work. I explore where the points of convergence are between the religious context and the post-Christian, post-ideological context of contemporary art and culture.
I often start with the writing or collecting of text, and my practice includes performance to video, drawing and installation.
I graduated from the MFA at Goldsmiths in 2009 and have since exhibited both in the UK and abroad. I organise 'Peer Sessions', a monthly peer critique group for postgraduate artists. This involves exhibitions, screenings and will include a reading group alongside the peer critique meetings.
Current and forthcoming events
- June - July 2013: New Work: Kate Pickering & Charlotte Warne Thomas, Bond House Gallery, New Cross (more info)
Qualifications and training
- 2009 MFA art practice, Goldsmiths College, London
- 2005 'Starting Out' 6 day professional development course for emerging artists, Yorkshire Arts Space, Sheffield
- 2005 BA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
- 1999 PGCE: Secondary Art and Design, Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, Wakefield
- 1998 BA History (art history specialism), Sheffield University, Sheffield
Employment
- 2011 Visiting tutor, B.A. Fine Art, Nottingham University, Nottingham
- 2011 Visiting tutor, Postgraduate Diploma, Chelsea School of Art, University of the Arts, London
- 2007 Voluntary steering committee member/ arts programme adviser, Bearspace Gallery, Deptford, London
- 2005 Part time studio mentor/ Fine Art Associate Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
Solo exhibitions
- 2010 We Will Make A Way, Bloc space, Sheffield
- 2010 The Assistant- a collaboration with Maria Fusco, Bearspace Gallery, London
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Opening Connections, Site Festival 2013, SVA, Stroud
- 2012 Motorcade/FlashParade National Open, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
- 2012 EVA Retrospective Video Art 2012, National Art Gallery, Thailand
- 2012 ASSEMBLY 13, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
- 2012 Bread & Roses, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
- 2012 Collectible, Zeitgeist Art Projects, London
- 2011 Samvaad video screening, Espacio Centre, Spain
- 2011 Waiting For Suicidal Hares International Video Art Festival, Moon Event Space, Chongqing, China
- 2011 Experimental video art 8, Tour of Universities, Thailand
- 2011 Sentences @ Bury Text Festival, Bury City Art Gallery and Museum, Bury
- 2011 FACT: Darren Harvey-Regan and Kate Pickering, R O O M artspace, London
- 2011 Studio artist's group show, Woodmill Studios, London
- 2011 Samvaad video screenings, Shantiroad Studio Gallery and Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Bangalore and New Delhi
- 2010 Experimental video art 7, Tour of Fine Art departments in various Universities, Thailand
- 2010 WORDS, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm, Denmark
- 2010 Murmur, Waterside Project Space, London
- 2010 The Devil's Necktie, Woodmill Studios, Bermondsey, London
- 2009 WORDS, Am Nuden Da Gallery, London
- 2009 Group/Grope, Area 10, Peckham, London
- 2007 Shifting states, Bearspace, Deptford, London
- 2007 Pure Balls, 222 space, Borough, London
- 2006 Beneath, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
- 2006 EmergeandSee Student/Graduate film festival, Kino Babylon, Berlin
- 2006 Objects in waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield
- 2005 Are we nearly there yet?, Greenbelt Arts Festival, Cheltenham
- 2003 Diving Deep, Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
- 2002 Pneuma, Tab Studios, Sheffield
Degree shows
- 2009 MFA art practice, Goldsmiths College, London
- 2005 BA fine art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
Live/Performance
- 2012 WORDS, Performance reading and publication launch by Am Nuden Da/ Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Artist talks
- 2011 Artists talk- Kate Pickering, Nottingham University, B.A. Fine Art Programme, Nottingham
- 2011 Roaming Room tour- artist's talk in studio, Roaming Room/ Woodmill Studios, London
- 2010 Artists talk- Kate Pickering, Bloc space, Sheffield
Residencies
- 2006 Month long studio residency, St. Thomas's church, Sheffield
Publications
Other
- 2009 Organiser of Peer Sessions: a monthly informal peer critique meeting, Woodmill studios, London
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