Kate Linforth is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, ceramics, and illustration. Her practice is rooted in material exploration, with a particular focus on the visceral and transformative qualities of clay, wax, pigment, and textile.
Process-led and intuitive, Linforth investigates the limits and possibilities of her chosen materials, allowing repetition and accumulation to shape the work. Inspired by the patterns and systems found in the natural world, her practice regularly incorporates iterative techniques, from layered applications of beeswax to the rhythmic production of forms on the pottery wheel, resulting in works that evoke growth, erosion, and quiet persistence.
Following a 12-year period teaching art, Linforth returns to her studio practice with renewed energy and curiosity. This renewed engagement is characterised by an openness to experimentation and a sensitivity to context, where making becomes a way of gathering, testing, and reconfiguring ideas.
Her current work is increasingly attentive to notions of layering, both physical and conceptual, making her practice particularly resonant with themes of accumulation, history, and place.
Selected Exhibitions
2017
Becoming and Dissolving, Alice Black Gallery, London, W1
Martyrs Summer Salon, Martyrs Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex
2016
Life.Death.Whatever. Sutton House, Hackney, London. www.lifedeathwhatever.com
2015
Art In Action, Oxfordshire
'Soil' Whitstable, Kent
Rochester Cathedral, Kent
Upnor Castle, Kent
Nucleus Arts, Chatham
2014
Grotto in the Park, Kent Cultural Baton at The Olympic Village, London, E20
The Cultural Coalition, London, WC2
Assembly, The Horsebridge, Whitstable, Kent
Art14, London, W14
"Retain/Reclaim" Stour Valley Arts, Ashford, Kent
"Lupercalia" Hawkins and Blue at the Red Hand Gallery, London, N1
2013
"One" UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate, Kent
The Wall of Beauty at the Scin Gallery, Old Street, London, EC1
"Handmade and Homegrown Heroes" at the Scin Gallery, Old Street, London, EC1
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
The Cork Street Open Exhibition, London, W1
The Galvanising Shop, Chatham Dockyard, Kent
2012
"The Collective" West Bank Gallery, London, W2
"Cellular Conversa Microscopic Slides" Neurology Department Kings College Hospital, London
"Eleven" K College, Ashford
2011
“Twelve” Middle Row, Ashford
Fine Art Exhibition, County Square, Ashford
Funded Projects
'Hive' A project funded by www.ideastest.co.uk in Swale and Medway (2015)
Residencies
2014/15 Resident Artist at Benenden School, Kent
2012 Fruiting Bodies at ROOM North Kent (www.roomnorthkent.wordpress.com)
Workshops
2016 Ideas Test, 34 High Street, Sittingbourne, Kent
2015 HIVE @ Rochester Cathedral, Kent
HIVE @ Upnor Castle, Kent
HIVE @ Nucleus Arts, Chatham, Kent
Magna Carta, Rochester Cathedral, Ken
Projects in 2011
“Twelve” Middle Row, Ashford
County Square, Ashford – End of Year Show
Press
2015
Kent Life Magazine
2012
HESA Inprint 'Addiction' Issue
thedjlist.com
'Twelve' Kent Messenger
2003
Faversham Times
Education
BA Fine Art, University of Kent, 1st Class Honours
Collections
Private collections and commissions in the UK and overseas