Kate Dunn makes paintings and environments about devotional practice, embodied presence, and the existential notion of painting as vocational work.

Dunn’s experiences of dissociation and nihilism led to a questioning around visual identity and repetitive artistic approach. This, in turn, birthed their 2023 exhibition, ‘mid-morning in the scriptorium’, in which the surface appears a fragmented montage of painting styles. Refusing stylistic categorisation, there is no focal point in these works, rather the figure and ground dynamic remain in constant flux, rejecting notions of fixed meaning or finite knowledge.

Solo Exhibitions

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 Exhibitions

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