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.

Pointon explores the physical cost of our intangible digital age. While we often perceive the "cloud" as a weightless, ethereal entity, it is inextricably tethered to the earth—forged from rare Earth minerals, high-grade silicon, and the aggressive extraction of core materials. Her practice navigates the tension between this high-tech acceleration and the slow, inevitable reclamation of the natural world.

She depicts ancient civilisations and historic ruins not merely as relics of the past, but as prophecies of our future. In these sites, where nature has systematically dismantled the grand architectures of previous empires, we see the blueprint of entropy. By juxtaposing the infrastructure of the digital world—data centres, mines, and sprawling cable networks—with the crumbling stone of antiquity, Nature does not just inhabit these ruins; it consumes them, turning monuments back into minerals.

Visually, her landscapes function as a contemporary re-interpretation of 18th-century British landscape painting. drawing heavily on the Romantic tradition of the "Sublime"—the feeling of awe and terror when faced with the overwhelming power of nature. However, these works are a meditation on industrialization and climate change. employing the soft light and sweeping compositions of the British masters to mask a more harrowing reality: a landscape fundamentally altered by human appetite. By using a traditional aesthetic to depict human devastation, to create a "toxic pastoral." The viewer is invited into a scene that feels familiar and nostalgic, only to realize they are witnessing the environmental degradation required to sustain our modern connectivity.

Contact Details

www.katepointonart.org
katepointonart@outlook.com
Instagram @kate_pointon_art
Tel: 07581258455