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about the artist

"There is real style in Kate Ault's huge shadowed glimpses of landscape" The Scotsman

Katie has exhibited with the New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at the Mall Galleries (short-listed for Stoke-Robert's Bursary; finalist for Winsor & Newton Young Artists' Award); with the Society of Women Artists and United Society of Artists at Westminster Central Hall; and at other venues in and around London including Gallery Focus, Churzee Studio Gallery and Windsor Art Centre. Art fairs and festivals include Battersea Contemporary Art Fair and Wandsworth Arts Festival.

Solo exhibitions have included 'Dreaming in Colour' at Earlsfield Library (supported by Wandsworth Arts & Entertainments); 'Bright Earth' at the Cotman Gallery, Wimbledon; Wigmore Hall, London; Europa Gallery, Sutton; Gallery Focus, New Malden; Clapham Picture House, London; Novotel, Hammersmith; BZW Royal Mint Court, London; and Sutton House (National Trust), Hackney.

Commissions include portraiture and murals, a wide variety of illustration, the design and production of sets for theatre, and publicity materials for musical performances. In 2012 Katie was commissioned to design and paint the Creation Triptych for St Barnabas Church Southfields.

In 2018 Katie's work was exhibited to complement the Jigsaw Players' Season Finale concert. (www.jigsawplayers.co.uk/about-us/)

Katie studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art (MA in Fine Art – tutored by Glen Onwin RSA). While a student she was a finalist in the Macallan 'Spirit of Scotland' national painting competition.

art history and museums

Katie has a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Gallery & Museum Studies from the University of Manchester and has recently completed a Masters in Art History at The Open University with Distinction. Her dissertation was runner-up for the Association for Art History's postgraduate dissertation prize 2017 (https://forarthistory.org.uk/latest-news/postgraduate-dissertation-prize-winner/). She is currently a PhD student at The Open University, supported by CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England).

As well as developing her own painting she has worked for a number of museums and galleries (including Barbican Art Gallery and Royal Collections Trust) organising exhibitions and displays, cataloguing and caring for collections. Research includes fourteenth-century Italian painting: Katharine Ault, 1991, 'A Predella Panel from Cecco di Pietro's Agnano Altarpiece', The Burlington Magazine, November, No. 1064, pp. 766-770.

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