For Kate, Lithography allows an exciting directness of expression whilst opening up possibilities for more experimental and abstracted visual vocabulary. She enjoys the challenge and discipline of the process, whilst exploring the unique chemical qualities inherent with working on the stone..
Kate's thematic concerns centre around her lifelong interest and study of natural history, specifically botanical and mycological subjects. Drawn from close observational field studies she combines the factual with invention, often suggested by the unique process behaviours of Stone Lithography. Fascinated by the myriad forms and intricacies of organic architecture in both flora and fauna, the art works often take on a bio-morphic quality alluding to our shared fragility and resilience, in the face of external threats. Growing up in a home with two doctors, biological discussion and imagery in medical journals and textbooks had a clear influence on her visual vocabulary. Through her practice Kate aims to investigate the often fractious relationship between man and the natural world in the light of contemporary environmental and ecological concerns.
biography
Kate Fortune-Jones is a visual artist and fine art printmaker living in Stamford, South Lincolnshire, UK. Born in Liverpool, she studied Fine Art at London's Goldsmith College graduating in the early nineties. Following a Post-Graduate Diploma in Photography, Kate embarked on a career in the Animation industry making Feature films and Television series for children. Kate worked as an Art Director, Designer and Layout Artist using her skills for drawing, composition and storytelling to inform her work.
In 2017 Kate left London for the East Midlands and joined the Leicester Print Workshop community. At this large, impressively equipped print studio, Kate was able to pursue her love of printmaking and work along like-minded artists. In particular, Kate restarted her interest and affinity for the complex process of Stone Lithography, under the watchful eye of expert Litho practitioner Serena Smith.
ARTIST PRINTMAKER
Selected Exhibitions:
Winter Members Show , The gallery at Leicester Print Workshop 2023-24
Members Show, The gallery at Leicester Print Workshop, 2022/23
Pressing On Selected works post Covid members of LPW at The Gallery, LPW 2021
Small Print International The Gallery and Online at Leicester Print Workshop 2020
Meditations on Stone Lithography, Installation for Reform – The Gallery Leicester Print Workshop in conjunction with DMU 2019-2020
Lasting Impressions, PmC Archive show Scarborough Museum, Yorkshire 2017,
Pushing Boundaries , PmC Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and touring Ireland 2016-17
Making an Impression BBH Annual Show, Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury 2016
Loosely Bound, PmC Highgate Gallery, London and Print Room Suffolk 2016-17
In Two Parts, PmC, Lombard Gallery, Margate, Kent 2016
International Miniprint Biennial, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Bangor 2016
50 Years of Artists Prints from the Printmakers Council, Bankside Gallery, London 2015
V&A Mini Print Archive Box Collection, Bankside Gallery, London 2015
Oceanographic in partnership with Queens University Marine Lab and the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Bangor, NI 2015
Works on Paper PmC Barbican Library , Barbican Centre, London 2014
20:20 Print Exchange 2014 Hotbed Press Manchester with Seacourt Printworkshop, NI
Fifty Years of Folk, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, NI 2014
Nature through Art, Castle Espie, WWT, Co. Down , NI 2013
Works on Paper, Recent Prints from the PmC, RK Burt Gallery, London 2012
Ghost of Gone Birds, Conservation Art Project, Liverpool and London 2011
Kate's work is held in private and public collections including the V&A National Print Archive, London and The Printmakers Council Archive, Scarborough Museum Collections.
Publications:
Making an Impression: Printmakers Council At 50
Ghosts of Gone Birds A book accompanying this unique Art and Conservation project, 2014
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Winter Members Show , The gallery at Leicester Print Workshop 2023-24
Members Show, The gallery at Leicester Print Workshop, 2022/23
Pressing On Selected works post Covid members of LPW at The Gallery, LPW 2021
Small Print International The Gallery and Online at Leicester Print Workshop 2020
Meditations on Stone Lithography, Installation for Reform – The Gallery Leicester Print Workshop in conjunction with DMU 2019-2020
Lasting Impressions, PmC Archive show Scarborough Museum, Yorkshire 2017,
Pushing Boundaries , PmC Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and touring Ireland 2016-17
Making an Impression BBH Annual Show, Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury 2016
Loosely Bound, PmC Highgate Gallery, London and Print Room Suffolk 2016-17
In Two Parts, PmC, Lombard Gallery, Margate, Kent 2016
International Miniprint Biennial, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Bangor 2016
50 Years of Artists Prints from the Printmakers Council, Bankside Gallery, London 2015
V&A Mini Print Archive Box Collection, Bankside Gallery, London 2015
Oceanographic in partnership with Queens University Marine Lab and the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Bangor, NI 2015
Works on Paper PmC Barbican Library , Barbican Centre, London 2014
20:20 Print Exchange 2014 Hotbed Press Manchester with Seacourt Printworkshop, NI
Fifty Years of Folk, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, NI 2014
Nature through Art, Castle Espie, WWT, Co. Down , NI 2013
Works on Paper, Recent Prints from the PmC, RK Burt Gallery, London 2012
Ghost of Gone Birds, Conservation Art Project, Liverpool and London 2011
Kate's work is held in private and public collections including the V&A National Print Archive, London and The Printmakers Council Archive, Scarborough Museum Collections.
Publications:
Making an Impression: Printmakers Council At 50
Ghosts of Gone Birds A book accompanying this unique Art and Conservation project, 2014
Kate is a multi-disciplinary artist and printmaker who works part time as a studio technician and educator at Leicester Print Workshop . She has delivered workshops within museum and gallery contexts, at community outreach events and privately.
EDUCATION:
Foundation in Art and Design - Liverpool Polytechnic
BA Hons in Fine Art - Goldsmiths College, London University
Post Graduate Diploma in Cultural History and Theory of Photography
- London College of Printing, London Institute
STUDIO MEMBERSHIP:
Leicester Print Workshop, since February 2018
East London Printmakers, 2016 - 2017
Boden Press Print Studio, 2016
Bucks, Beds and Herts Printmakers 2015 - 2017
Seacourt Print Workshop, NI Keyholder, 2015
Printmakers' Council, 2011 – 2017
London City Lit, 2009 – 2017
London Printworks Trust, Textile printing, 2009
London Print Studio, 2008 - 2013
AWARDS AND RESIDENCES:
TL Studio Bursary and Residency at Leicester Print Workshop 2020
Lithography Residency at Seacourt Print Workshop in Bangor, Northern Ireland 2015