Kate Wickham

Originally from Sheffield, Yorkshire, Kate trained at Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London (MA 1979), and now lives and works in Sussex.

She makes hand built painterly vessel forms exploring a number of ideas and themes – landscapes, domestic interiors, seascapes etc. – through abstraction and symbolism, and through the use of colour, texture and mark making. Both drawing and painting inform the work. All pieces are one-off or small limited editions.

Technical notes: The vessels are hand built using slabs of clay. The clay is a white stoneware body. The clay surfaces are drawn onto and incised into both before and after building. Layers of colour are built up using slips, oxides, body stains, underglaze colours and glazes. The work is fired to about 1150 degree C.

Kate's work is in both private and public collections in Britain and abroad, including the Crafts Council collection and South East Arts. Her ceramics have been exhibited at Ceramic Art London, and at various galleries in the UK and Amsterdam with solo shows at the Lund Gallery, Yorkshire and Leeds Art College in 2009.

Kate was the founder and head of the Ceramics Diploma course at City Lit College in central London, and is currently Joint Head of Visual Arts.