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Galleries / Exhibitions



Lara Bowen Contemporary
AAF Battersea & Hampstead 2020 - 2025

Petersfield Museum & Art Gallery

South Downs Open 2025

Oxmarket Contemporary

Art For Everyone 2025
Modern Makers  - Contemporary Crafts 2024
Wave  2024
Summer Exhibition 2023


The Art Buyer 
Winter Show 2023

 


Lucinda Dalton Gallery

Spring Exhibition and Cotswold Exhibitions  2023

Winter Show 2022

Gallery 57

Surface Edge Shadow Exhibition 2022



Winfield Gallery, California, USA

Gallery 57

Find/Make Exhibition   2021



The Old Lock Up Gallery

Selene Exhibition 2020
 


Gallery 57

Arc Angle, Plane, Form Exhibition 2019 


Candida Stevens Gallery 

Alice Kettle ‘More Threads’ Exhibition 2017  

About Me

Born in Dorset, I moved to London as a teenager, but after 11 years, I followed my heart back to the countryside. I've been based in West Sussex for the past 30 years, where the surrounding nature... rolling downs, ancient trees, sea-worn pebbles and driftwood, deeply inspires my work.

I often refer to this as design by nature, and I remain a keen student.

My sculpture is rooted in a purity and simplicity of form and finish but above all, I create tactile, sensual objects that invite touch.

I primarily carve in wood using a process called direct carving, responding intuitively to the material without a fixed outcome in mind. I love working with reclaimed or found wood, enhancing the inherent qualities,  grain, knots, cracks or manmade features from a previous life ... celebrating their so-called imperfections while shaping them into effortless, desirable forms.

 

Before becoming a full-time sculptor, I worked as a creative consultant, designing abstract site-specific installations internationally. Alongside that work, I studied sculpture part-time at Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London

 

This background in large-scale installation art continues to inform my sculpture. The lateral thinking I developed through years of designing site-specific pieces for museums, hotels, restaurants and retail environments  inspires me to reimagine some of my carvings as limited edition casts.

I enjoy revisiting selected forms ... exploring how changes in scale, orientation, material, colour and translucency change their presence. Each piece is hand-cast and finished, so even within a limited edition, every piece has its own unique character

This fusion of design craftsmanship and problem solving continues to shape my practice ... fueling my passion for working across materials and scales and finding fresh ways to bring forms to life

I've extended this approach into  Art With Purpose, a small collection of handmade, limited edition objects for the home. Co-created with my sister, this project focuses on thoughtful material combinations and functional tactile beauty ... each piece is made either by me or in collaboration with fellow artisan makers

 

 © Kate Henderson 2025

West Sussex , UK

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