Katie Whitford b. 1995 is an artist based in Bristol, UK where she is a member of Solis Studio. Her work explores the everyday soft intimacies of place.
Katie’s prints and drawings are packed tightly with motifs and references. Her work is constructed from her own memories and experiences, woven with a range of visuals from films, museums, books and places. She carefully considers the spaces between objects and composes drawings and etchings rich in surface, pattern and tone. She is driven by a fascination with the gentle ordinariness of place and how objects charactarise a place while narrating and describing a life.
Drawing is at the heart of Katie’s practice, her observations are immediate and are not held by linear lines and perspectives. This immediacy sets a visual language that she takes into the print room, where she then slowly considers and builds scenes that hold small moments of narrative.
Katie studied for her BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths before accepting an 18-month scholarship at the Royal Drawing School, London. In 2023, she completed her MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at the University of West England, Bristol. She has undertaken international residencies and has work in private collections in Italy, France, UK, Ireland and North America, as well as the Royal Collection. She has exhibited work at Bankside Gallery, Christies and The Mall. In 2019, she was selected for the Paragon Press printing prize and had her first solo show in the summer of 2022.
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email: contactkwhitford@gmail.com
instagram: @katiewhitforddraws
Katie is free for commissions and currently taking teaching enquiries.
EDUCATION
MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking, University of West England, 2021 - 2023
Post Graduate Scholarship on The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School, 2018-19
BA Fine Art Goldsmiths, University of London 2014-17
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Barton Peveril College 2016-17
PUBLICATIONS
Pigeon Pages 2019
RESIDENCIES
Printmaking residency, Dumfries House, Scotland 2023 & 2024
Borgo Pignano, Italy 2019
AWARDS
The Paragon Press Printing Prize 2019
COLLECTIONS
Sir Michael Moritz KBE, Italy
The Royal Collection, London
TEACHING
Contemporary drawing tutor at Bristol Folk House
Printmaking tutor at Young London Print Prize
SPEAKING
Speaker at PROOF, Post Graduate Research Symposium, University of West England, presenting "Pressing Pause: An investigation into translating home and place, from cinema to print" 2022
Speaker at Museum of Home's 'Stay Home Stories' symposium, 2021
