about.
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Kate Windibank’s creative practice involves a continuous investigation of form and surface, with particular emphasis on ceramic materials, fragmentation and rebirth. Exploring the concepts of human experience and the transformational nature of time, Windibank’s sculptural ceramic vessels are abstracted geological formations, whose undulating edges, fault-lines and fissures reveal the story of their creation.
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The process begins when soft clay is torn, then pressed into moulds, once firm, the clay is broken into shards and used to create fragmented forms. As the pieces are constructed ceramic oxides are embedded into the crevasses of the clay. When the work is fired and the heat-work of the kiln turns the clay to stone, these oxides are drawn to the surface, reacting with glaze to create movement and texture that remains permanently frozen on the surface of the vessel.
Once complete Windibank's work still shows it’s transformational journey, these are objects that can be investigated and reappraised, as each viewing reveals new juxtapositions of detail, process, form and event.
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1990 -1993 BA (Hons) Fine Art,
Nottingham Trent University.
1997-2017 Digital Compositing Artist,
Framestore, London.
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2017- 2019 Ceramics Diploma,
Citylit, London.
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2019 - Fellow of the Digswell Arts Trust.
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
bio.
Kate Windibank was born in Sussex, England and raised in a village in the Cambridgeshire countryside, surrounded by wildlife and landscape that fascinated her from an early age.
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While at university, she became interested in audio visual art which in turn lead to a twenty year career working in VFX as a Digital Compositing Artist creating CGI for over 30 film and television programmes.
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Kate began working with clay as an antidote to the stresses of working in a demanding digital industry, but became fascinated by the creative process of making ceramic art. In 2017 she left her career in Visual Effects and returned to college to study ceramics. After graduating in 2019 Kate now devotes her time to creating sculptural ceramic vessels at her studio at the Digswell Arts Trust in Hertfordshire.
exhibitions.
"A Gathering"
an installation of 51 ceramic bowls exhibited in the Chapter House of Wells Cathedral for Wells Art Contemporary 2023
Photo by Rosie Holdsworth Photography
Photo by Rosie Holdsworth Photography
Photo by Rosie Holdsworth Photography
Photo by Rosie Holdsworth Photography
2024.
potfest suffolk (9th-11th Aug)
haughly park
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'new members'
contemporary ceramics
(25th July - 17th August)
london
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(19-21 July)
waterperry gardens
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(16 June - 7th July)
quenington
"Just a phase I'm going through"
a ceramic installation exploring the four principle shapes visible to us as the moon waxes and wanes on its journey around the earth.
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compton verney (21-23 June)
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Ceramicspace
maggies, royal free, london
(22-25 March)
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2023.
salisbury (03 nov - 23 dec)
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'Wells Art Contemporary'
(August -September)
"A Gathering" an installation of 51 unique ceramic bowls exhibited in the chapter house of wells cathedral, somerset.
art in clay farnham (18 -19 nov)
farnham
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potfest suffolk​
haughly park
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potfest in the park
hutton-in-the-forest
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celebrating ceramics,
waterperry gardens
2022.
potfest in the park
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art in clay, windsor
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2021.
the hepworth wakefield
ceramics fair.
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highate contemporary
'Form.'
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art in clay, windsor
(winner of the 2021 peers award)
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joanna bird gallery
2020.
thrown contemporary
winter exhibition.
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ace arts
christmas artisan market.
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anglian potters
christmas exhibition.
2019.
new designers
business design centre, london.
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art in clay
hatfield house.
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Allegoria
wynd gallery, Letchworth.
Sixteen30
menier gallery, London.
cluster crafts
truman brewery, london.