Kate Dunn born 1993, Edgware, UK

My practice takes the form of painting, installation and writing. Much of my work pairs painting with sound and lighting, creating multi-sensory experiences that question our connection to devotion and faith.  

This has manifest through a trash trance chapel; a tabernacle of gothic altarpieces and gabber music; and a monk’s scriptorium turned multiverse.

My most recent work looks at the concept of the tacky sublime, questioning the sacred power of objects when the world has fallen apart.

I’ve taught at City & Guilds of London Art School since 2019.

Solo Shows

2023 mid-morning in the scriptorium, TJ Boulting, UK

2021 Il Tabernacolo welcome to pharmakono, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy

  Where’s The Noize?, pop up at Fitzrovia Chapel, UK

  THE TABERNACLE welcome to pharmakon, TJ Boulting, UK

2020 SKIN OF LIGHT, SET Alscot Rd, UK

Selected Group Shows & Publications

2025 Taking Air, Book Launch, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK

LAS Invites, LAS Gallery, London, UK

2023 A House, A Home, A Landscape, EBBA & AORA collaboration, 34 Belsize Lane, UK

  Well Worn, SET Ealing, UK

2022 SYNCHRONOUS ERRORS, FOLD Canning Town, UK

2021 FUGUE, Robert Cooper x Kate Dunn, The Tub, UK

2020 when shit hits the fan, GUTS Gallery, Online

2018 Contemporary British Painting Prize, Huddersfield Art Gallery, and Menier Gallery, UK

Great Women Artists x Palazzo Monti I, Palazzo Monti, Italy

Profanations, MA Fine Art Show, City and Guilds of London Art School, UK

Education

2017 – 2018 MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, UK

2013 – 2016 Painting Diploma, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy

2012 – 2013 Foundation Diploma, Central Saint Martins, UK