Kate Butler (b. 1997) is a British artist and studio associate with SET, and alumni of ACME and Double Agents’ Associate Studio Programme 10. She is a graduate of Camberwell College of Arts with a first-class degree in Fine Art: Sculpture, and with a Diploma of International Study from the Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki. She currently studies MA Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Originally from the West Midlands, Butler has exhibited in Finland, Ireland and across the UK, in London, Bristol, Loughborough and Coventry, and studied at the Bauhaus School of Art in Germany.
Butler’s work has placed her runner-up in the Eccleston Sculpture Prize, 2021, and the Surrey Sculpture prize, 2023, and awarded her a Goldsmiths Master’s scholarship for 2025-27. She is currently based in London, working at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL, and is Editor-in-Chief at Smiths magazine.
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 – both what is within, and what is 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.
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