Kate Butler (b. 1997) is a British artist and studio associate with SET, and ACME and Double Agents’ Associate Studio Programme 10. She is a graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, 2023, with a first-class degree in Fine Art: Sculpture and a Diploma of International Study from the Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki.
Originally from the West Midlands, Butler has exhibited in Finland and across the UK, in London, Bristol, Loughborough and Coventry, and studied a summer programme at the Bauhaus School of Art in Germany.
Butler’s work has placed her runner-up in the Surrey Sculpture prize, 2023, and the Eccleston Sculpture Prize, 2021, and awarded her a Master’s scholarship at Goldsmiths’ University for 2025-26.
Artist Statement
Kate’s work is interested in space and the within: the domestic home, mental rooms, the familial and the familiar.
Reiterating recurring themes of privacy, comfort, and the pervasion of fear, the work derives from intimate, violent memories. Through feminist theory and a tactile formal language, the work is interested in articulating these isolated encounters and the time-sensitive desire to understand what is within and without.
Butler’s spatial assemblage takes influence from Arte Povera to re-site stirring miscellanea and typically un-valuable, discarded ‘non-objects’ to construct the makeshift forms and lacklustre gestures of the inner home. These liaise between comfort and threat, rest and paralysis; dividing ontological realities between the physical body, the familial body and the ever-developing architecture of the solitary self.
See below for detailed biography. Click here for full list of exhibitions, or here to request a CV.
2025-26
Associate with SET studios, London.
Awarded postgraduate scholarship and began MA Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths University of London.
Member of the Associate Studio Programme 10 in collaboration with Acme, 2025.
Working at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London.
Courses in Art Criticism at Central Saint Martins and History of Art at Chelsea School of Art.
2024
Studying a Reading the Screen course and two workshops in Filmmaking for Artists at the British Film Institute.
Working on a project team at the University of the Arts London.
2023
Began working at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
Studied summer school program at the Bauhaus School of Art in Weimar, Germany.
Graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, with a first class in BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture.
Awarded runner-up in the Surrey Sculpture Prize for degree show.
2022-23
Visitor Experience Assistant at Camden Art Centre, London, delivering the exhibitions of:
– Forrest Bess: Out of the Blue, 30 Sep – 15 Jan 22/23.
– Dani and Sheila ReStack: Cuts in the Day, 30 Sep – 15 Jan 22/23.
– Mohammed Sami: The point 0, 27 Jan – 28 May 2023.
– Atiéna R. Kilfa: The Unhomely, 27 Jan – 28 May 2023.
Steering Committee member for the Southwark Park Galleries show PIT, 21-22 January 2023.
2021
Awarded runner-up in the Eccleston Sculpture Prize in Loughborough.
2020-21
Diploma of International Study at the Academy of Fine Art, Uniarts Helsinki.
2020
Manifestos for the Future Summer School 2020 with Mansions of the Future and Proto-type Theatre, Lincoln.
Gallery invigilator at Martin Hall Gallery space.
2019
Art Society committee member for Loughborough Student Union.
Fine Art Student Voice Representative at Loughborough University.
2018
Began BA (Hons) Fine Art at Loughborough University.
2017
First year BA (Hons) Graphic Communication and Illustration at Loughborough University.
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