“THERE ARE ONLY EVENTS AND RELATIONSHIPS” Carlo Rovelli
“THERE ARE ONLY EVENTS AND RELATIONSHIPS” Carlo Rovelli
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Louisa Martindale Building. Brighton. Kate was commissioned as Lead Artist for the Welcome Space 2011-2022. ’Wrapped’ is a work in ceramic tiles wrapped around the concrete columns of the entrance area, injecting robust colour and rhythm to the cavernous space. “Brighton is full of colour it is in the architecture and in the attitude of the place. I want this work to feel like Brighton and to have a positive emotional influence on all those who work there and all those who need to be there.”
Photograph Matt Livey 2022
Photograph Matt Livey 2022
Southmead Hospital, Academic Building, Bristol 300cm x 300cm. Handmade hand glazed ceramic tiles, paint. Lead Artist Commission 2008-9 - photography Sarah Blee
City and Islington College London. Hand made ceramic tiles in 10 white glazes 200cm x 500cm 2003 - production with Sally Bourne - photography Sarah Blee
Southmead Hospital, Bristol, Academic Building Facade. Coloured glass panels. Lead Artist Commission 2008-9 - photography Sarah Blee
Timber pole sliding screen 300cm x 270cm. Private House London 2012 - photography Sarah Blee
Lwakhakha pole sliding screen detail
Suspended glass screen 450cm x 160cm Financial Services Authority, Canary Wharf Art Collection, 2000 - photography Philip Vile
Moving On - detail
Proposal model for 3Ts hospital. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. BDP Architects. Ceramic Tile wrapped concrete columns for the Welcome space. Phase 1. (installation in 2019)
On board the ship Antigua in the Greenland Sea, in support of Artist in residence Nora Silva raising awareness of our climate crisis.
Painted cashmere shawls 2010
Model - Lily Roberts
painted cashmere shawl photographed in Geoffrey Bawas' Lunuganga, Sri Lanka. 2017
painting in 2001
"I have always enjoyed Kate's work and I worked with her on a project for one of my collections which was very successful. I have followed her career and admire especially her designs for rugs which always have a strong impact"
PAUL SMITH
"Her acute vision, uniting colour, form, texture and proportion, will continue to move and engage our senses"
Christopher Farr
Kate Blee FLOOD exhibition at Christopher Farr 2001
Kate Blee FLOOD exhibition at Christopher Farr 2001
Kate Blee FLOOD exhibition at Christopher Farr 2001
Series of 3 flatware tapestries for London Westminster Parliament Portcullis House 2000 - 500cm x 150 cm
Flat weave tapestry woven through Christopher Farr 1.6m x 1.6m
Commission for a pair of rugs for the Welcome Trust HQ London. 550cm x 460cm. Architects, Michael Hopkins, produced through Christopher Farr. 2004
Photography Sarah Blee ©
Diptych, ink on paper, from ‘The Gathering’ Show, Artist House, New Art Centre, 75.3cm x 55.5cm and 31cm x 55.5cm framed, 2018
Diptych from ‘The Gathering’ Solo show, Artist House, New Art Centre, 77cm x 55cm and 77cm x 55cm, framed 2018
Ink on folded Paper 2018
Oil on paper 45cm x 60cm
Oil on paper 45cm x 60cm
Oil on paper 45cm x 60cm
Oil on paper 45cm x 60 cm
Oil on board 40cm x 30cm
Oil on paper 45cm x 60cm
Oil on paper 45cm x 60cm
Oil on board 27cm x 35cm
oil on board 2012
Painting on cashmere cloth for a new Exhibition at The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh opening on 7th Jan 2023!
A table setting of 8 ceramic plates, wall mounted, with steel brackets . Each bracket responds to each plate. The work imagines a gathering of individuals - with commonalities and differences. The plates would present and hold the food precariously. There is risk involved in keeping the food on the plate and care and attention and even skill needed. Our physical engagement with materials and objects especially around the table with food are full of cultural agency, traditions, familial habits, harmonies and conflicts. This work looks at the intricacies of the simple act of daily gathering to eat, and in its presentation references the tradition of the aspirational and commanding displays of fine china in homes.
brackets made by sculptor Finn Thomson
photography Sarah Blee
Artists House Roche Court - 2010 - wool, textile gum 200cm x 140cm photography Sarah Blee
Series of 15 painted shawls 100cm x 200 cm Roche Court 2010 photography Sarah Blee
Flatweave 80cm x 500cm
with Edmund De Waal. Roche Court 2010 photography Sarah Blee
"Kate, Edmund, Chien-Wei, Matthew, and Marthe command their medium and subvert its function. A repetition of pots becomes a wall, or a movement of light; a woven carpet is a boundary, and a piece of lead looks as soft as cloth; silver tools hover between the ceremonial and the utilitarian. The processes of industrial design are married through material with craft and become sculpture" Sarah Griffin 2010
Lead bed sheet 250cm x 250cm Artist House Roche Court 2010
Artist House Roche Court 2010 - photography Sarah Blee
Series of paintings set in a timber frame work 250cm x 250cm. Open Studio 2012
'The Unpredictable Life of a Piece of Cloth'
Solo exhibition Scottish Gallery Edinburgh 2008
detail from 'the unpredictable life of a piece of cloth'
solo exhibition at the Scottish Gallery Edinburgh 2008
'The Unpredictable Life of a Piece Of Cloth'
exhibition Scottish Gallery Edinburgh 2008
ceramic and hardwood 38cm x 21cm x 10cm The Gramounce 2016
Skewered cup detail 2016
LOSA LOndon South Africa. Social Investment Project in South Africa. Kate's work centred on beadwork, weaving and crochet. Supported and exhibited by Sotheby's London. The founding group were Kate Blee, Ed Barber, Jay Osgerby, Ou Baholyodhin, Nathalie Hambro, Jessica Rose and Julia Leakey. Curated by Rachel Barraclough and Janice Blackburn. The aim of the venture was to create a wider market for South African rural craft workers by working together. 2001
Wool, beads.
Series of painted Organza Scarves Egg Gallery Knightsbridge London 2000
Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery London
Place settings for The Gramounce Artist Supper Club 2016
Ceramic tile 2016
'Falling Water' tapestries hanging at The Gramounce Artist Supper Club 2016
In the studio - Process and Experiment
painting in the studio
'Paper Plates' Work for exhibition at Egg London 2004
Cardboard box left out in the wet
Folding and dying
Dye onto wet cloth
Painting at the Franz Mayer glass studios in Munich for the Canary Wharf commission 'Moving On'
painted scarves drying before steaming
paint over rock
studio shelves
Finn in stiffened shawl tent
Lead bed sheet trial
Installing Lead Bed at the Artist House Roche Court 2010
screen printing 'Untitled Map' design for Christopher Farr Cloth in London
working through colours for Untitled Map screen print design for Christopher Farr Cloth
colour workshop HAY studios Cornwall
work for Scottish Gallery Exhibition hanging in the studio
Inspiration - Alvaro Siza. Saal Boca Housing. Porto. Portugal
Paintings for wallpaper for Christopher Farr Cloth
found composition on the streets of Santa Marta Colombia
'Loose Weave' Final swatch of new wallpaper for Christopher Farr Cloth
model experiment table cloth
cleaning a pot plant, screen grab from a favourite part of a favourite film, Mon Oncle - the genius Jacques Tati.
series of pot shapes 2017
Colour work for BDP architects for 3T's Hospital Brighton.
Lwakhakha Pole Screen in progress in the Windmill workshop
clay blocks 2018
