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Kate was born in London and studied at Edinburgh College of Art between 1980 and 1984. She lives and works in London. Her work is internationally known through exhibitions, public architectural installations and commissions. She is a passionate materialist and colourist . Her work is dynamic, it is concerned with interactions, movement and forces . Process left visible. The work has a sensual capacity, an invitation to engage, and to express use and agency, animated by happenings and human interactions and relationships. She has a close reference to architectural space, and and material action. It is robust, tactile and active and challenges the idea that the art work and the viewer should be separated.

The work expresses its material and the material traditionally linked to an object struggles to be controlled and becomes free and unpredictable. “…..These pauses in the action bring a temporarily sculptural nature to the continuum of effort and mess, and daw attention to Kates close conversation with materials, so we experience both her action on them and their action on each other, making visible the push-me-pull-you of process” Sarah Griffin Artist House, New Art Centre, 2018.

  • Work in Public Collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, The Craft Council, The Contemporary Arts Society, NHSTrust, FCA.

  • Awarded Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts 2015.

  • Current teaching: Visiting Lecturer in Mixed Media at the Royal College of Art, London.

 

 

 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 (January) Kate Blee at The Scottish Gallery

2019 ‘Under Your Feet’ Ruthin Craft Centre.

2018 'The Gathering' Solo Show, Artist House, New Art Centre, Roche Court. 

2013 'Editions' Contemporary rugs for collectors, Somerset House London

2010 Stroud International Textile Festival. Stroud

2010 Artists' House, New Art Centre, ROCHE COURT, group show.

2007 Kate Blee at the Scottish Gallery Edinburgh Scotland

2006 Kate Blee 'Cutting' solo at Christopher Farr, Los Angeles. USA

2005 'The Spirit of Liberty' Liberty, London  

2005 'Celebrating 30 years' Crafts Council at the V&A Museum, London

2004 Kate Blee 'The unexpected life of a piece of cloth' C.A.A. Gallery London

2003 Kate Blee 'Order and Disorder' solo show. Egg. London. 
2003 C.D.A Show. Sotheby's. London.

2002 Kate Blee Edmund De Wall show. Studio. London. 
2002 LO.SA (South Africa social investment design project) Sotheby's London.

2001 'The Unexpected' Sotheby's New York.USA
2001 Kate Blee -Tapestries. Christopher Farr Gallery. London
2001 Kate Blee 'Flood' - rugs at Pucci International New York. USA. Produced by Christopher Farr. (Touring to LA. San Francisco. London)

2000 Pitti Imagine Casa experimental textiles. curated by Paola Navone. Florence. Italy

1999 Kate Blee solo show - painted cloth. Egg Gallery. London.

1998 Kate Blee solo show - rugs .The Christopher Farr Gallery. London

1997 'Objects of Our Time' The Crafts Council of Great Britain - touring

1996 Kate Blee & Jim Partridge' at the Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery. London

1995 Kate Blee solo show at Egg Gallery. London
1995 Kate Blee textiles. The Charleston Gallery. Sussex. 
1995 'Clothes to collect'. Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery. London.

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2011-18 Welcome Space Artist for the new 3Ts hospital. Brighton stage 1 and stage 2. BDP Architects.

2015 Artist commission John Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust Oxford . Gynaecological Ward

2007-14 Lead Artist Southmead Academic and Pathology buildings. Bristol

2014 Artist commission Macmillan Cancer Support Centre. Brighton. David Morley Architects.

2012 Artist commission John Radcliffe Hospital NHS trust, Oxford. Intensive Care Baby Unit.

2000 Series of Tapestries. Westminster Parliament. Portcullis House. London. Hopkins Architects