Curriculum Vitae

Katie Elizabeth Welsford. BA Hons, P.G.C.E
14th 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 2008
Education 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, Canterbury
Art 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, Canterbury
3d 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 Shows
2007    “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, Kent
2008-2009           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, Kent
2005    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
CRB Check certificate-enhanced disclosure