Bio
Kate Pointon was Born outside London, in the United Kingdom.
Pointon studied at Winchester School of Art.
From 2000 - 2020, the artist lived and worked in London.
The artist has exhibited in London, LA, Tokyo, and Ireland.
In 2025, Pointon is working on a new body of work at her new studio, outside London, United Kingdom.
It marked a significant departure in style from her previous work. 

Statement
Pointon’s practice explores the relationship between material states, the moment when one matter violently transitions to another material. In her Explosion series, a series of intricate and dynamic oil paintings and drawings visualising the force of change by referencing explosions, and the transformation of materials into another state. Exploring the gap between "deep time" (geology) and "real-time" (digital processing). By linking the violent extraction of minerals to the "violence" of an explosion, to evoke a visceral connection between the human use of technology and the earth’s raw materials, the violent natural forces which shape them, and the often violent means of extraction to mine these materials.

Pointon explores the conflation of, and inherent contradictions involved in taking the raw beauty of natural materials and extracting them to produce technology which produces simulacra of natural beauty and materials, ingested by the secondary medium of screens.

The Feldspar series explores how raw natural materials are transformed from their natural state into manufactured entities. For example, Feldspar is used in glass for Screens and Displays, in smartphones, Laptop displays and TV panels. Glass manufacturers rely on feldspar-rich formulations for strength and clarity.
Human experience is marked by continual transformation—some gradual, others abrupt—and few changes are more profound than those that redefine the boundary between life and death, or ability and disability. The transition from life to death is not solely biological; it carries psychological, cultural, and existential weight.

In pigment, Pointon finds the elasticity needed to hold contradiction. A single brushstroke can evoke both tension and release; layers of texture can mirror the complexity of loss, reclamation, and becoming. Through colour and material, the translation of what cannot be easily named: the existent grief of loss, and diminished physical state, in 2025, she has started on a new body of work, her extinction event series.

  • British Artist
    Resides and works in Northamptonshire - London, United Kingdom
    BA Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, United Kingdom


    Selected Exhibitions

    2025. OSD Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
    2014, Unseen Art Fair, Nispen, Amsterdam
    2010, Car Boot Fair, Brick Lane London
    2010, Tit For Tat, Whitechapel Gallery Project Space, London
    2010, PlusArtProjects, 278 Cambridge Heath Road, London
    2008, Free Art Fair, London
    2006, Mimoid, Limehouse Arts Foundation, London
    2005, More, Three Colts Gallery, London
    2005, Cold Climates, Apt Gallery, London
    2004, But Not As We Know It, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
    2004, Cold Climate, APT Gallery, London
    2003, Miniature, touring exhibition Raid Projects, Los Angeles & Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo
    2002, Loco For Rococo, The Nunnery Gallery, London
    2002, Cross-Currents, Raid Projects, Los Angeles

    Residencies

    2004, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, United States of America
    2003, Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS, Limerick, Ireland

    Relevant Professional Experience & Art-Related Contributions

    2006, Limehouse Studios curated show, Limehouse, London, United Kingdom
    2001-2005, Bow Arts OSD, Bow, London, United Kingdom