Biography

Born in Inverness in 1989, Katie grew up in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, before training at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. Since graduating in 2012, she was awarded The John Guthrie Ochar Memorial Prize for Painting, The Royal Scottish Academy’s John Kinross Scholarship and has been exhibiting widely throughout the U.K. In 2014 she will complete a five month residency as a recent recipient of The RSA Residencies for Scotland Award.
Collections to which works have been obtained include Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital, Frank Gehry’s Maggie’s Cancer Support Centre and The Royal Scottish Academy Collections, Edinburgh.
Currently printing at Glasgow Print Studio

Open Folio

Pictorial Excerpts
My prints originate from layers of assorted  techniques, combining etching, collagraph, collage and monotype to explore colour, form and texture. Within the fabrication technique I embrace, many considered decisions are made, as the layering process dictates the overall aesthetic value of the print, evolving through various transformative states before finally concluding a satisfactory balance of shape, tone and colour. My works on paper are largely seen as an extensive catalogue of shape, composition, weight, colour and motif exploring my fascination with this intuitive layering process.