Kate Butler (b. 1997) is a British artist and studio associate with 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 has recently 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 prestigious Master’s scholarship at Goldsmiths’ University for 2025-26.
Artwork
Kate’s work is interested in space and the within: the domestic home, mental rooms, the familial and the familiar.
Recurring themes of privacy, comfort, and a pervasive sense of fear versus safety, the work derives from intimate memories with and the social issue of male violence; through feminist theory and a visual language of tactile form, the work is interested in articulating isolated encounters and the time-sensitive desire to understand.
Butler’s spatial assemblage takes influence from Arte Povera, siting 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 or paralysis, and the divided realities of being in the physical body, the family body and within ever-developing architecture of the solitary self.
See below for detailed history. Click here for full list of exhibitions, or here to request a CV.
2025
Joined the Associate Studio Programme in collaboration with Acme.
2025
Working at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London.
2025
Studied a 10-week short course in Social Anthropology.
Studied courses in Art Criticism at Central Saint Martins and in History of Art at Chelsea School of Art.
2024
Studying a Reading the Screen film module through the Open University, as well as two workshops in Filmmaking for Artists at the British Film Institute.
2023
Began working at Central Saint Martins school of art in London.
2023
Studied a summer school program at the Bauhaus School of Art in Weimar, Germany.
2023
Graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, with a first class in BA Sculpture.
2023
Awarded runner-up for degree show work in the Surrey Sculpture Prize.
2022-23
Gallery volunteer at Camden Art Centre, London.
2022
Awarded Diploma of Higher Education in BA Fine Art from Loughborough University.
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.
2020
Gallery invigilator at Martin Hall Gallery space.
2019
ArtSoc committee member for Loughborough Student Union.
2018
Began BA (Hons) Fine Art at Loughborough University.
2017
First year BA (Hons) Graphic Communication and Illustration at Loughborough University.
2016-17
Art & Design Foundation Diploma at Stafford College, Staffordshire.
2015
Work experience at Keeler Gordon Textiles, London.
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