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Kate Shooter’s approach to painting has always been process driven. A fast conversation between mark and response allowing subconscious narrative to bubble up through the layers. Works often hover in that sweet spot between abstraction and figuration...
“I came to the realisation some time ago that all my work is self-portrait. My compulsion to paint is really the need to make the interior exterior, to render as authentically as possible the experience of being human - more specifically me, through paint on surface.”
Kate studied art at Howard Gardens Art School in Cardiff and then Wimbledon School of Art in London, graduating in 1996. Her work is held in private collections worldwide and also several galleries across England and Wales.
Selected Solo Shows
2025: Beautiful Short Loser, The Art Shop, Abergavenny
2024: Your Face Or The Moon, Irving Gallery, Oxford
2022: Wicker Woman, Made Gallery. Cardiff
2022: Sometimes I Fall and Never Hit The Ground, Gallery At Home, Usk
2021: Wish You Were Here, Arundel Contemporary, West Sussex
2021: The Violet Hour, That Art Gallery, Bristol
2020: Things That Go Bump In My Head, Gallery At Home, Usk
Selected Group Shows
2026: Cross Currents 2, Rosebud Contemporary, New York
2026: The Shadow Side Of Everything, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles
2025: The Weirdness Of The Real, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
2024: It Rose And It Fell, Terrace Gallery, London
2024: A Room Of One’s Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford
2023: Rub and Roll Print Show, Made Gallery, Cardiff
2022: A Woman’s Place Is Everywhere, Cello Factory, London
2021: The Autumn Open, RWA, Bristol
Awards
2024: Shortlisted For Jackson’s Art Prize
2024: Arts Council Funded 3 month Print Residency with Sarah Garvey
2022: Awarded Celf Cymru Project Grant
2022: Shortlisted for Beep Biennial
2021: Winner of The Solo Art Prize, Made Gallery, Cardiff
Curatorial
2025: Back To My Trees, Terrace Gallery, London
2025: Selector and Curator for Spring Open, Made Gallery, Cardiff
2024: Panel judge for Irving Gallery Open, Oxford
2023: Panel judge for Solo Art Prize, Made Gallery Cardiff
