Katy Cole

Tethys

Pencil on paper, 29.7cm x 29.7cm, 2023

Katy Cole is a visual artist living and working in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Katy’s practice explores the line between the actual and the fantastical. Manipulating scale and imagery, combining science fact and fiction, she examines the human will to explore, inhabit, colonise and capitalise on the unknown. Katy’s practice incorporates drawing, painting, collage and installation and draws ideas from literature, landscape, and found imagery, in order to create visual stories representing potential futures. Most recent work in collaboration with artist Iris Priest has seen the creation of a series of ‘seed packet’ drawings which exhibited in group show ‘Habit, Ability’ at the Newbridge Project, Newcastle in the summer of 2022. This work considers what we can learn from nature's way of adapting, regenerating, healing and surviving.

 In 2021 Katy undertook the Abode Air Residency at the Auxilliary, Middlesbrough alongside collaborators Annie O’Donnell and Sarah Tulloch. This culminated in a large-scale installation for MAW (Middlesbrough Art Weekender) in September 2021. Katy has exhibited in London and Italy and undertaken a residency in Venice. She also exhibited at BALTIC centre for contemporary art in group show ‘They used to call it the moon’ in 2014/15, which led to her first solo show a solo exhibition at 36 Lime street, Newcastle in October 2015.

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