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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

Katie gained a PhD in Art History from The Open University in March 2025 with her thesis titled 'Giotto and Non-Giotto in Nineteenth-Century Britain'. Her doctoral research was supported by CHASE, the Consortium of the Humanities and Arts South-east England.

She gained an MA in Art History with Distinction from the Open University in 2017. Her dissertation (titled 'How did Ugolino di Nerio's Santa Croce Polyptych challenge and change the art historical canon between 1780 and 1887?') was runner-up in the Association for Art History's post-graduate dissertation prize 2017.

Katie also holds a post-graduate Diploma in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester. She has worked for a number of art galleries and museums including Barbican Art Gallery and Royal Collections Trust.

publications

Katharine Ault, 1991, 'A Predella Panel from Cecco di Pietro's Agnano Altarpiece', The Burlington Magazine, November, No. 1064, pp. 766-770.

seminar and conference papers

'Private ownership, public display and commodification: Ugolino di Nerio's Santa Croce Polyptych in nineteenth-century Britain', Art as Commodities as Art, University of York, 14 June 2019.

'A Queen in Manchester: "Giotto's Coronation of the Virgin" at The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition, 1857', Giotto's Circle, 20 June 2022.

gallery contact

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