Katharine Platts
Artist, Technician, Arts Organiser / Producer
khplatts@icloud(dot)com
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
(2024) MIG Welding and Fabrication skills 10 week course, Truro College
(2023) IPAF 3A and 3B Operator Training Licence (To operate Mobile Elevating Work Platforms such as Cherry Pickers, Scissor Lifts and Mobile Booms)
(2023) Evening course in Silversmithing, Cornwall College
(2023) Permaculture Association, Permaculture Design Certificate
(2018-21) BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art Writing (First), University of the West of England
(2016-17) Foundation in Art and Design (Distinction), Truro College
(2016) TEFL Course (Distinction), The Teaching English as a Foreign Language Academy
(2014-16) A-Levels in English Literature (A), Photography (A), History of Arts (B), Truro College
AWARDS AND GRANTS
(2023) The Great Turning, commissioned by Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge
(2022) Artist Studio Residency, Grant and Mentorship with CAMP / Back Lane West (as Leifang Collective)
(2021) The Rebecca Smith Memorial Award
(2021) Spike Island Recent Graduate Bursary
(2021) UWE Futures Award
(2017) Truro College Prize
(2014) Most Innovative Product and second place overall at the Cornish Innovation Awards
RESIDENCIES
(2022) Artist Studio Residency, Grant and Mentorship with CAMP / Back Lane West (as Leifang Collective)
(2020) Warping Symbols Finding Meaning Residency with Daniella Del Carmen
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
(2024) Arts career workshops on establishing creative careers in rural areas for How Can I Stay? Gathering event hosted by Visual Arts South West and Flamm
(2024) Assisting facilitation of willow lantern workshops with City of Lights X SALT Projects at Great Estate Festival
(2023) Collaborative large scale map making workshop with sixth form students, Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon
(2023) Helping Businesses Build Creative Careers, Old Bakery Studios, Truro, Cornwall [Guest Speaker]
(2022) A Talk From Our Artists In Residence, Back Lane West, Redruth [as Leifang Collective]
(2022) Jewellery making workshop series for students at Bodmin College, including enamelling and beaded jewellery
(2021) People and Places, Kei Langley’s Curator-In-Residence Project at CAMP [Guest Speaker]
(2021) Art Writing as Creative Practice, UWE Spike Island Studios, University of the West of England, Bristol [Guest Speaker]
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
(2024) Production assistant for Learn from a bird series of exhibitions, Grays Wharf Gallery, Penryn. With Arts and Culture Exeter X Environment and Sustainability Institute X Falmouth University. Curation / Events set up / Invigilation / Packing artworks / Desinstall exhibitions
(2024) Production assistant and facilitating willow lantern workshops with City of Lights X SALT Projects at Great Estate Festival
(2023 - current) Freelance Gallery Technician and Art Handler at Tate St Ives, Barbara Hepworth Museum
(2023) Production assistant at Flamm Arts Festival, Redruth, Cornwall
(2023) Gallery and Visitor Assistant at Tate St Ives
(2023) Production Assistant at Od Arts Festival, Somerset. Produced by OSR Projects.
(2021 - current) Freelance Assistant Producer at contemporary arts project organisation Field Notes. [Projects including Red River Poetry and Tender Acts]
(2022-23) Screen Printer and Digital Printer at Blackwater Studios, Cornwall
(2022) Lighting Assistant / Shadowing at Kernowtopia, Cornwall and Portal Weekender, Somerset. Digital 3D projection mapping and liquid light analogue oil projectors.
(2021-22) Assistant Producer internship with arts residency space Back Lane West, Redruth and contemporary arts project organisation Field Notes. Funded by Cultivator Cornwall
(2021-22) Art Technician at Bodmin College, Cornwall
(2020) Steering Group Volunteer for St Werburghs City Farm. (Generated insights to enable the organisation to understand the value and impact of their work. Analysed how they could tackle local social and environmental issues through their newly acquired funding, ahead of strategic change and the reallocation of resources.)
(2019) Fabrication assistant for Andy Holden’s Natural Selection exhibition, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
(2019) Volunteer for Herbalists Without Borders, Bristol
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
(2023) The Great Turning: Tidal Signal, Tidal Cycles, Harbour House Arts and Yoga, Kingsbridge, Devon [solo commission]
(2022) Unmade [the space between], Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (as Leifang Collective). Curated by Hat Fidkin and Jocelyn Brett
(2022) Remnants, Cloudshelter digital exhibition curated by Bryan Ridpath (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) How Long, Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth. Curated by CAMP.
(2022) Featured on Mark Leckey's series on NTS Radio, as part of Mark Leckey's Music and Video Lab (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) Golowi, Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall. Artwork, curation and event production by myself and Phoebe Bray (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) CAMP's 1 Minute Film Festival, Maketank, Exeter (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) Cornish Maids, Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall. (Independent work and Leifang Collective). Curated by Fran Rowse.
(2022) Music and Video Lab Showcase, CAST Cornwall, Helston (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) The Back of Beyond, Polygon Platform, Online. Curated by Tilly Craig and Molly Erin McCarthy
(2022) Mark Leckey's Music and Video Lab, Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) Alumni Showcase, Free Range, Brick Lane, London
(2021) BARTO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
(2021) Keskorra, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall
(2021) In Your Hands as part of Forced Collaboration, Newlyn Gallery & The Exchange, Newlyn, Cornwall
(2021) UWE Graduate Showcase: Moving Image, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
(2021) Spike FM: Spike Island Open Studios, Online
(2021) UWE Graduate Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol and Graduate Showcase, Online
(2020) Make Do and Mend: Reimagined, Virtual Exhibition
(2019) Gathering Speed 1, The Old England, Bristol
(2019) Spike Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol
(2019) Home: BBB Art Collective, BS6 6AF, Bristol
(2019) Electronic Ecosystem, St Paul’s Crypt, Bristol
(2018) Trust Absolute Unconditional, St Paul’s Crypt, Bristol
(2017) Page Turner, Lemon Quay Piazza, Truro
PUBLICATION
(2022) Frontpage/Backpage/Centrefold, Selected work by Devon and Cornwall artists (as Leifang Collective)
(2022) My Eyes are Lotus Flowers, Poetry Picnic Productions, Issue 1
(2021) That Chopping Sound, Issue 6
(2020) Earth Bodies Collective, Issue 1
COLLABORATIONS
(2024) WITTA Researcher
(2022-23) Leifang Collective
(2021) Keskorra, first cohort. Led by Kei Langley and funded by CAMP
(2019-20) Earth Bodies Collective