About
Bio
Kate Proudman lives and works in London. She is a practicing artist with a background in architecture. She graduated in architecture at Bristol University (BA) & Edinburgh University (Dip Arch) in the 1980s, worked as an architect for many years before graduating in Fine Art (BA) at London Met in 2011. She exhibits her work regularly, see list of current & recent exhibitions.
Kate co-founded artist-led gallery One Paved Court in 2017 to bring to West London some of the less commercial art regularly enjoyed in East London.
Artist’s Statement
Kate’s work examines themes of institutional critique, the urban realm, temporary structures & space, and most recently the translation of text into painting and installation.
She often involves other people in the creation of her work, having collaborated with staff in the education and archive departments at Whitechapel Gallery and London Met, with the ferryman at Ham, a group of teenage girls, the shopkeepers of Brick Lane and her own puppy.
In her recent practice, Kate combines collaboration with painting, by responding to written descriptions of unknown places of personal significance provided by her collaborators. Working from text, she translates these descriptions into paintings through drawing, collage, and imaginative interpretation.
To further explore the process of deciphering text, Kate experiments with models, projections, and various methods of distortion, to subvert and fracture the images (and spaces) she creates. By erasing, layering, and reassembling, she plays with readability and conveys the ambiguity and elusive qualities of these places. Her work investigates the unknown beyond what is described, reflecting on how meaning and memory are constructed.
She uses paint as a metaphor for understanding text, working iteratively until new spaces emerge. Her practice is an exploration of how we receive information, how images are pieced together from words, and how the passage of time shapes memory as the experiences overlap and intertwine. The painterly surfaces of Kate’s oil paintings, reveal a love of colour, light, and composition, often referencing her architectural background through structure and subject matter.
CV
Education
2011 BA (Hons) Fine Art, The Cass
2009 HND Richmond School of Art
1987 ARB Registered Architect
1985 Postgraduate Dip. Arch. Edinburgh University
1982 BA (Hons) Architecture, Bristol University
Architecture
1998-2007 Conran & Partners London: Ridley Scott Soho HQ, Cool Britannia summit for Tony Blair in Canary Wharf, VIP Lounge Concord Terminal at JFK, Niki Hotel Japan.
1996-7 Susan Minter Design, London: Private high-end residential
1994-5 Barbara Weiss Architects, London: Private high-end residential
1990-94 Peter Makower Architects London: Commercial office buildings & residential.
1990 Inskip & Jenkins Architects, London: Cambridge library.
1985-1990 Lyster Grillet & Harding Architects: Community architecture, public housing.
1983 Hampshire County Architects, Winchester: New state schools.
1982 Purcell Miller & Tritton, Norwich: Conservation of historic buildings for the NT.
Selected Shows
2026
Visual Fictions, Books on the Rise, Richmond, 6-31 Jan 2026
2025
Orleans House Winter Show 2025, Orleans Rd, Twickenham TW1 3BL, 28 Nov 2025- 1 Feb 2026
Two-Fold, 2-person show with Emma Appleton, One Paved Court, Nov 2025
Southwark Park Open, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA, 8 Nov -6 Dec 2025
Beasties, curated by Hanna ten Doornkaat, Penny Gallery, Kingston 28 Sept-11 Oct 25
March Hares Open, Selected by Limpit Productions, at One Paved Court, 5 – 30 March 2025
2024
Orleans House Winter Show 2024 , Orleans Rd, Twickenham TW1 3BL, 30 Nov 24- 2 Feb 2025
ING Discerning Eye 2024,the Mall Galleries, London, Nov 2024
TLC Deck of Cards 2024, Ewbanks Auction, Oct 24.
Royal Academy, shortlisted Summer Exhibition 2024
2023
Beyond Reason, 2-person show One Paved Court, May 2023
A Patch of Sky Group show, One Paved Court, Feb 2023
2022
TLC Deck of Cards, Ewbanks Auction 2022
2020
Lockdown Letters to Horace, Strawberry Hill House, Oct 2020
Seeing Sense 2-person show, One Paved Court, Feb 2020
2019
Out of Place group show , One Paved Court, Feb 2019
2018
Personal Space, N Artists, One Paved Court, Jan 2018
2017
Orleans House Gallery Group Show, July 2017
Imagined Realities Solo Show, Fairfax Gallery, Oxford University Press, Apr 2017
2016
Shared Histories 5th Base Gallery, Heneage St, Brick Lane, Nov 2016
Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press, Riverside Gallery, Richmond, Oct – Dec 2016
Best of Borough Rose Theatre, Kingston, Sept 2016
Anagrams Group Show Kingston Museum, Apr– July 2016
2015
FPS Open 2015 The Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1, Nov –Dec 2015.
Old Post Office Group Show 42 Eden St, Kingston, June 2015
Solo Show, Fairfax Gallery, Oxford University Press, April 2015
Rochester Row Gallery with Laurence Ogden & Charmaine Stimson, Feb – Mar 2015
2013
Whatever Next? Mile End Arts Pavilion, London
Midsummer Show Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington.
Fusion Group Show Baxter Gallery, Kingston.
2009
Private View, Marble Hill House
2008
In a Box, Marble Hill House
Public Servants & Ai Weiwei are on display at the Tennyson Unit, Ashford Hospital
Publications
Archive, An audio-walk,
Central House, 59-63 Whitechapel High Street London E1
| An illustrated audio-walk through a building, Central House, the home of the Sir John Cass School of Art in Whitechapel, with CD, scripts and photographs. |
Maureen Eyre Proudman
A biography of the artist & designer, Maureen Eyre Proudman. After studying at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, she set up a successful Design Studio in London before going to live in Jodhpur in India in the early 1930s, and traveling around Japan on her honeymoon; she built a modernist house in London by Connell, Ward and Lucas in 1938 and meanwhile continued to paint and produce wood engravings throughout. The body of work is catalogued in this book.
News
Visual Fictions, Jan 2616 December 2025 - 14:32
Orleans House Winter Show 25 -261 December 2025 - 16:17