Katherine Kingdon

Katherine is keenly observant. She has a firm grounding in ceramics and teaching, life-drawing, making and mending and poking about in museums. She also keeps a lively sketchbook. All this feeds into her clay work. She studied 3D Design (Ceramics and Glass) at Leicester Polytechnic, has an MA in Applied Art and Visual Culture from London Guildhall University and a PGCE from Westminster College, Oxford. ‘The work I make is small, carefully crafted and delights in imperfections. I spend time with each piece considering how to best show its character. Not cleaning up and hiding the making technique, but looking for ways of emphasising that which it is. The surface decoration happens in a similar way. I throw and tear and stick, working with both plan and chance then look and think and hunt for possibilities. From these possibilities characters and narrative evolve. The fun for me is exploring how the characters communicate, both with each other and with the viewer. My work is a celebration of ‘in the moment’ creative decisions and storytelling. I like to leave an element of ambiguity in the surface imagery. To suggest a narrative, but to leave enough space for the viewer to dream’