Curriculum Vitae
Katie Elizabeth Welsford. BA Hons, P.G.C.E14th January 1976.
12 Marlborough Road, Margate, Kent, CT9 5SU
H: +44 (0) 1843 224199
M: 07984 723865
E: Katie@katiewelsford.com
W. www.katiewelsford.com
Positions held
Director, Margate Rocks Art and Ecology Festival 2008Education Co-ordinator, Margate Rocks Art and Ecology Festival 2008-2009
Education Coordinator, Pushing Print Festival 2009
Director of Albatross: Own business specialising in vintage handmade goods.
EDUCATION
Christchurch University College, CanterburyArt and Design P.G.C.E
University of Brighton
First Class BA Honours degree in Fine Art Sculpture.
Kent Institute of Art and Design
B.T.E.C Art and Design Foundation.
Employment
March 2008- Currently, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury3d Design Pathway Leader, BTEC Foundation Art and Design.
September 2005-Currently,
Turner Contemporary, Freelance artist, holding talks and workshops in the Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate, Kent
Exhibitions
Solo Shows2007 “Neighbourhood” Solo show at the Old Town Gallery, Margate
2007 “Neighbourhood” Solo show at the Foyer Gallery Aberdeen, Scotland.
2004 “Survival of the Fittest”, Solo Show, Georges House Gallery, Folkestone.
2001 “Self Defence” Solo exhibition.
Selected group shows
2009 August Alturnerative, Crate Project Space, Kent2008-2009 Various vintage fairs selling handmade goods, under the business name Albatross 2008 December Blurred Vision, Art in Offices for Liberty Trust, Kings Hill.
2008 November Handmade craft fayre, Margate Old Town
2008 November “Handmade and Bound” Artist Book Fair, St Aloyions Hall, Euston, London
2008 January The Bell Hotel, Sandwich. Joint show with the artist Tim Guest
2007 May Expect the Unexpected. A series of exhibitions running throughout Kent libraries. A collection of my works were shown at the Folkestone Library Gallery, Kent.
2007 April Mapping, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Bury, nr Manchester. Nationally selected group show. Piece of work Mass was exhibited.
2006 History and Identity, international group selected show, Primo Piano Living Gallery, Lecce, Italy.
2006 Waiting Projects. A selected show of short films that were exhibited in GP waiting rooms across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
2006 Winner of the Sofa So Good Competition The Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland.
“Glue” performance piece won the first prize and was exhibited in the gallery alongside sixteen short listed artists.
2006 First Class Post Selected group show of Kent artists. Work had to be sent in an A4 envelope to the curator, Exhibition of a latex letter titled “Covering Letter”. The work was a touring exhibition shown in four in Kent libraries.
2006 Paperworks, Selected group show at the Bury Art Gallery and Museum, Lancashire. Exhibition of the pieces “Home comfort” and “Self defence”.
2006 “Eating out in the Great Outdoors”Selected proposal for the piece “The Ornithic Range” as part of an outside group show, at the Museum of Domestic Architecture, MoDa, London.
2006 “Betrayal of the Senses”, Selected group show, Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London. Exhibited two pieces “Jewellery” and “Underwear”
2005 “Margate Rocks 05” Selected group show “Seascapes” A textural, mixed media hanging, shown in a disused warehouse in the Old Town, Margate.
2004 “Margate Rocks 04” “Be Me” piece shown in an empty shop, in the Old Town, Margate.
2004 Group show with students from KIAD, Canterbury, photographic artwork shown amongst museum exhibits at the Powell Cotton Museum, Birchington, Kent
2003 “Launch” Mixed media group show. The Acute Angle Gallery, Waterloo, London.
2002 “Architecture Week” Title: “Urban Armour” exhibited as part of a mixed media group exhibition at The Studio Voltaire, Clapham, London.
2000 “Urban Lab”. Title: “What I left behind” Mixed Media group show as part of the nationwide architecture week at the Contact Gallery, Brighton.
1999 “Portland Stone” Selected to exhibit photographic works in Anthony Reynolds Gallery, Farringdon, London.
Awards
2006 Winner“Sofa So Good” competition launched by the Instant Neighbour Trust, Aberdeen, Scotland, Exhibition of work at the Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland.2000 Winner Burt, Brill and Cardens Solicitors student awards: Highly commended, first prize for sculpture. Publications
2004 Article on the solo exhibition at the Georges House Gallery, Folkestone, appeared in Kent Today, regional newspaper.
2002 NHS Newsletter, Information about the commission at Pembury and Tonbridge Hospital
2000 Antenatal piece appeared on page 6 of The Guardian Newspaper: June 2000
2001 Glue performance piece appeared upon Worldart.com
Commissions
2002 Commissioned by the NHS Trust to produce a photographic artwork for the entrance foyer of Pembury Hospital, Kent2005 Commissioned by Thanet Coastal Projects, Thanet Council, to produce two large scale sand sculptures on Viking Beach, Broadstairs.
Residencies
2006 One week artist in residence at Kemsley Primary School, Sittingbourne, Kent
1999 One-month stone carving residency at Tout Quarry, Island of Portland, Dorset
2002 Resident artist at Pembury Hospital. Working staff and patients to produce a final photographic piece for the hospital foyer.
Additional qualifications
Full clean driving licence.Knowledge of various computer packages, including Word, Power-point, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Digital Imaging. Two years of digital imaging experience: scanning, cataloguing, re-sizing, and preparing images for digital delivery.
Food and Hygiene certificate.
MAC and PC literate.
Covered for public liability insurance
Covered for personal accident insurance
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