Collection of KATIE TOMLINSON in a gallery layout

KATIE TOMLINSON

Katie Tomlinson (b. 1996, Teesside) lives and works in Manchester. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. She was awarded the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award.


Katie Tomlinson’s work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions. Most recently, Tomlinson presented the solo exhibitions They Only Want You When You’re Seventeen, Seoul (2024); At Least Buy Me Dinner First, Brooke Benington, London (2022); and Fight the Moon, Paradise Works, Manchester (2022). Among the group exhibitions she has participated in are 40 Years of the Future: Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2024); Viewing Room, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo (2024); A Mirror to Vanity, Brooke Benington, London (2024); LET THE ABSENCE SPEAK, curated by Mattia Pizzani and Marta Orsola Sironi, Milan, Italy (2023); Buried in Affection, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo (2022); Stories, Bankley Gallery, Manchester (2022); Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2022); A star is just a memory of a star, Brooke Benington, London, online (2022); RAW, Soho Revue, London (2022); Obstructions, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2021).

ARTWORKS

EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITION: LIMINAL SALON II

26 October - 23 November 2024

KATIE TOMLINSON: FANTASY GIRLS

7 September - 12 October 2024

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Born in Teesside, UK, 1996

Education:
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, 2021-2023
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester School of Art, 2015-2018
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, The Northern School of Art, 2014-2015

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2024 They Only Want You When You’re Seventeen, LKIF Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2024 Fantasy Girls, Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK
2022 At Least Buy Me Dinner First, Brooke Benington, London, UK
2021 Fight the Moon, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK

Duo/ Group Exhibitions:
2024 The Pearls and The Oyster, The Birley, Preston, UK
Fantasy Girls, Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK
40 Years of the Future: Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Viewing Room, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo, Japan
A Mirror to Vanity, Brooke Benington, London, UK
2023 LET THE ABSENCE SPEAK, a project by Mattia Pozzoni curated by Marta Orsola Sironi, Milan, Italy
2022 Buried in Affection, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo, Japan (duo)
Stories, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK
Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Nibble Island, ROGUE, Manchester, UK
A star is just a memory of a star, Brooke Benington, London, UK (online)
RAW, Soho Revue, London, UK
2021 Obstructions, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Extension, Castlefield Gallery New Arts Space, Wigan, UK
2020 The Warrington Contemporary Open Exhibition, The Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Enough is Definitely Enough, Pineapple Black, Middlesborough, UK
More T’North, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK

Awards and Residences:
The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award (Granted by Royal College of Art), 2021
The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Grant, 2021
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant, 2021
Developing You Creative Practice Arts Council England Grant, 2020
The Essential School of Painting Artist Scholarship, ESOP London, 2020
A-N Time Space Money Bursary, 2020
Jerwood Collaborate nomination, Jerwood Arts, London, 2019
Artists’ Internation Delegation to Denmark - Copenhagen & Aarhus, Granted by Castlefield Gallery and The Artists
Information Company, 2019
Castlefield Gallery Mentee Award, Manchester, 2018
The Biscuit Factory Foundation Contemporary Young Artist Award, 2018
Joya: arte + ecologia, Andalucia, Spain, 2016

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