Katharine Platts
Artist, Technician, Project Producer
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
(2023) Permaculture Association
Permaculture Design Certificate
BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art Writing (First)
(2016-17) Truro College
Foundation in Art and Design (Distinction)
(2016) The Teaching English as a Foreign Language Academy
TEFL Course (Distinction)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
(2023) The Great Turning, commissioned by Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge
(2022) CAMP/ Back Lane West Studio Artist Residency, Grant and Mentorship (as Leifang Collective)
(2021) The Rebecca Smith Memorial Award
(2021) Spike Island Recent Graduate Bursary
(2021) UWE Futures Award
(2020) UWE Impact and Innovation Grant and Mentorship
(2017) Truro College Prize
(2014) Most Innovative Product and second place overall at the Cornish Innovation Awards
RESIDENCIES
(2022) CAMP/ Back Lane West Artist Studio Residency (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) Mark Lecky's Music and Video Lab
(2020) Warping Symbols Finding Meaning Residency with Daniella Del Carmen
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
(2023) Collaborative large scale map making workshop with sixth form students, Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon
(2023) Helping Businesses Build Creative Careers, Old Bakery Studios, Truro, Cornwall [Guest Speaker]
(2022) A Talk From Our Artists In Residence, Back Lane West, Redruth [as Leifang Collective]
(2022) Jewellery making workshop series for students at Bodmin College, including enamelling and beaded jewellery
(2021) People and Places, Kei Langley’s Curator-In-Residence Project at CAMP [Guest Speaker]
(2021) Art Writing as Creative Practice, UWE Spike Island Studios, University of the West of England, Bristol [Guest Speaker]
COLLABORATIONS
(2022-ongoing) Leifang Collective
(2021) Keskorra, first cohort. Led by Kei Langley and funded by CAMP
(2021) The Collaborators, Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange
(2019-20) Earth Bodies Collective
PUBLICATION
(2022) Frontpage/Backpage/Centrefold, Selected work by Devon and Cornwall artists (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) Leifang, Collaborative publication with Phoebe Bray
(2022) My Eyes are Lotus Flowers, Poetry Picnic Productions, Issue 1
(2021) That Chopping Sound, Issue 6
(2020) Earth Bodies Collective, Issue 1
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
(2023 - current) Gallery Technician at Tate St Ives, Barbara Hepworth Museum
(2023) Production assistant at Flamm Arts Festival, Redruth, Cornwall
(2023) Gallery and Visitor Assistant at Tate St Ives
(2023) Production Assistant at Od Arts Festival, Somerset. Produced by OSR Projects.
(2021 - current) Freelance Assistant Producer at contemporary arts project organisation Field Notes
[Events including Red River Poetry at The Last Weekend, Tate St Ives, May 2022 and Red River Stannary, CAST Cornwall, Helston, October 2021]
(2022-23) Screen Printer and Digital Printer at Blackwater Studios, Cornwall
(2022) Lighting Assistant / Shadowing at Kernowtopia, Cornwall and Portal Weekender, Somerset. Digital 3D projection mapping and liquid light analogue oil projectors.
(2021-22) Assistant Producer internship with arts residency space Back Lane West, Redruth and contemporary arts project organisation Field Notes. Funded by Cultivator Cornwall
(2021-22) Art Technician at Bodmin College, Cornwall
(2019) Fabrication assistant for Andy Holden’s Natural Selection exhibition, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
(2023) The Great Turning: Tidal Signal, Tidal Cycles, Harbour House Arts and Yoga, Kingsbridge, Devon [solo commission]
(2022) Unmade [the space between], Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (as Leifang Collective). Curated by Hat Fidkin and Jocelyn Brett
(2022) Remnants, Cloudshelter digital exhibition curated by Bryan Ridpath (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) How Long, Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth. Curated by CAMP.
(2022) Featured on Mark Leckey's series on NTS Radio, as part of Mark Leckey's Music and Video Lab (as Leifang Collective)(2022) Golowi, Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall. Artwork, curation and event production by myself and Phoebe Bray (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) CAMP's 1 Minute Film Festival, Maketank, Exeter (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) Cornish Maids, Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall. (Independent work and Leifang Collective). Curated by Fran Rowse.
(2022) Music and Video Lab Showcase, CAST Cornwall, Helston (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) The Back of Beyond, Polygon Platform, Online. Curated by Tilly Craig and Molly Erin McCarthy
(2022) Mark Leckey's Music and Video Lab, Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) Alumni Showcase, Free Range, Brick Lane, London
(2021) BARTO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
(2021) Keskorra, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall
(2021) In Your Hands as part of Forced Collaboration, Newlyn Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
(2021) UWE Graduate Showcase: Moving Image, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
(2021) Spike FM: Spike Island Open Studios, Online
(2021) UWE Graduate Poster Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol
(2021) UWE Graduate Showcase, Online
(2021) Digital Walls, Virtual Exhibition
(2020) Year 2 Group Show, Virtual Exhibition
(2020) Make Do and Mend: Reimagined, Virtual Exhibition
(2019) Mirum, UWE Studios, Spike Island, Bristol
(2019) Gathering Speed 1, The Old England, Bristol
(2019) Canvases on a Bridge, Southville, Bristol
(2019) Crescendo, UWE Studios, Spike Island, Bristol
(2019) Spike Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol
(2019) Home: BBB Art Collective, BS6 6AF, Bristol
(2019) Electronic Ecosystem, St Paul’s Crypt, Bristol
(2018) Trust Absolute Unconditional, St Paul’s Crypt, Bristol
(2018) You’re Not Invited, UWE Studios, Spike Island, Bristol
(2017) Foundation Art and Design Show, Tregye, Truro College
(2017) Page Turner, Lemon Quay Piazza, Truro