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Kate Giles Kate was born in 1962. She studied printmaking and life drawing in London at the John Cass School of Art and Morley College and holds a degree in Fine Art with Honours distinction from University of Brighton. Rooted in classical English and Dutch landscape painting, Kate's style is truly a contemporary impressionism. She received her first solo exhibition in 1992 and has exhibited consistently since that time at galleries throughout the United Kingdom as well as in New Hampshire and New York. Odon Wagner Contemporary has presented the paintings of Kate Giles most recently at the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF). “It is not enough to read a deep understanding of the English and Dutch landscape traditions and a keen awareness of contemporary practice in the paintings of Kate Giles. She forces a language onto the canvas that is indivisible from herself. Seeing landscape as paint, she inspects its surface as one would the surface of a finished canvas. Pigment will flow through culverts and paint will drain from the sky. Giles wrings every last drop of juice from the spareness of a particular part of Suffolk; she squeezes it onto her canvas, fusing rhythms and counterpoints with a particular emotional intellect. Ultimately, she finds harmonies that are unique to her. “ –Laurence Edwards, 2007 |
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Born Kate was born in 1962. She studied at Camberwell and Falmouth schools of art, having completed a degree in English Literature at New College, Oxford. Rooted in classical English and Dutch landscape painting, Kate's style is truly a contemporary impressionism. She received her first solo exhibition in 1992 and has exhibited consistently since that time at galleries throughout the United Kingdom as well as in New Hampshire and New York. Odon Wagner Contemporary has presented the paintings of Kate Giles most recently at the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF). “It is not enough to read a deep understanding of the English and Dutch landscape traditions and a keen awareness of contemporary practice in the paintings of Kate Giles. She forces a language onto the canvas that is indivisible from herself. Seeing landscape as paint, she inspects its surface as one would the surface of a finished canvas. Pigment will flow through culverts and paint will drain from the sky. Giles wrings every last drop of juice from the spareness of a particular part of Suffolk; she squeezes it onto her canvas, fusing rhythms and counterpoints with a particular emotional intellect. Ultimately, she finds harmonies that are unique to her. “ –Laurence Edwards, 2007 Education 2001 Printmaking, Morley College, London 1997-98 Printmaking and Life Drawing, Morley College, London 1994 -95 University of Brighton, PGCE Art and Design 1994 Stained glass, Vauxhall College, London 1987 - 90 Falmouth School of Art and Design, BA Hons Fine Art 1986 Camberwell College of Art and Design, Foundation 1986 Printmaking, John Cass School of Art, London 1981- 84 New College Oxford, English Literature, BA Hons Public Collections Norwich Union; Britten-Pears Library; numerous private collections in UK and abroad Selected Solo Exhibitions 2003 June Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, 56th Aldeburgh Festival 2002 July Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery 2001 Nov. Sharon Arts, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA 2001 June Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, 54th Aldeburgh Festival 2000 June Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, 53rd Aldeburgh Festival 1999 Feb. Welsh National Opera, Sadler’s Wells, London 1998 July Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery 1992 June Smith’s Galleries, Covent Garden, London 1999 July Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 April The Retreat, Great Glemham, Suffolk 2008 March Geedon Gallery, Essex 2007 May Butley Mills Open Studios, Suffolk 2007 April “The Retreat”, Great Glemham, Suffolk 2006 September “Arthouse”, Aldeburgh 2006 July “The Big Shed”, Iken, Suffolk 2006 April “The Retreat”, Great Glemham, Suffolk 2005 December Annual Show, Thompson’s Gallery, Marylebone 2005 June Annual Show, Thompson’s Gallery, Aldeburgh 2004 October Autumn Show, Geedon Gallery, Essex 2004 October “New Landscapes”, Thompson’s Gallery, The City 2004 September Autumn Show, Thompson’s Gallery, Marylebone 2004 August “A Celebration of the River”, Thackeray Gallery, Snape Maltings 2004 March Annual Show, Thompson’s Gallery, The City 2004 January London Art Fair, Islington, Thompson’s Gallery 2003 October Affordable Art Fair, New York, John Martin Gallery 2003 October Battersea Art Fair, Thompson’s Gallery 2003 September Autumn Show, Thompson’s Gallery, Marylebone 2003 June Annual Show, Thompson’s Gallery, Aldeburgh 2003 March National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2003 Jan. Art Fair, Islington, London, Thompson’s Gallery 2002 October Battersea Art Fair, Thompson’s Gallery 2002 June Annual Show, Thompson’s Gallery, Aldeburgh 2002 June “The Darkened World”, The Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh 2002 April The 30th Laing Sea and Landscape Competition, Mall Galleries 2001 August Drawings, “Mother Clap’s Molly House” National Theatre 2000 Nov. New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London 1999 April Bankside Browser/Archive. Tate Modern, London 1997 Sept. Cheltenham and Gloucester Open Drawing, Cheltenham 1996 Oct. 77 Cornhill, City of London. “Art for Sale” 1993 July Stratford Open Studios, Delfina Trust, London 1992 Oct The Guardian “Art for Sale”, Whiteleys, London 1991 August “Barnsley Open”, Barnsley 1991 July Tabernacle Gallery, London 1990 July Cotton Centre, Hay’s Galleria, London, FSAD |
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