Kate Montgomery studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, St John's College, Oxford and then Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1992. In the same year Kate was artist in residence at the Prince of Wales' Institute of Architecture. Her work is held in both private and public collections around the world.
Kate lives on the south coast: sources for her paintings are found through walking in the Sussex countryside, running by the sea, and the interiors and gardens of Georgian and Victorian houses and museums in Brighton & Hove.
Kate's paintings often suggest interior spaces associated with female responsibility, creativity and desire. Silent houses with children playing outside, workrooms, a costume gallery... Real time and space are avoided, permitting personal histories and fictions to be read.
Selected Exhibitions
Winter Show The Campden Gallery Chipping Campden 2022/23
Sussex Contemporary Open i360 Brighton 2022
Watercolour Group Summer show Long & Ryle, London 2022
Inner Space with Dawn Beckles, Lindsey Moran and Alison Pullen. Sarah Wiseman Gallery Oxford 2022
Golden Hour mixed exhibition Le Salon Vert, Saanen, Switzerland Summer 2021
Quantum Contemporary Art Summer Show West Horsely Place Surrey 2021
Primavera mixed show Long & Ryle Pimlico London 2021
L'Appel de la Montagne mixed exhibition Le Salon Vert, Saanen, Switzerland 2020/21
Beyond Other Horizons mixed show, British Council Iasi, Romania 2020
Quartet, 4 artists, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh Winter 2019
Moon Gazing , mixed show, Sarah O'Kane, Fitzroy House Lewes June 2019
Dreamed House solo show Long & Ryle, Pimlico, London, May/June 2018
A Winter’s Tale mixed show Long & Ryle, Pimlico London, December 2016
Bijou mixed show Candida Stevens Fine Art Chichester, December 2016
Into The Woods mixed show St Annes Galleries, Lewes East Sussex, March 2016
Kind of Blue mixed show Candida Stevens Fine Art Chichester, November/December 2015
Good Figures The Mall Galleries London, February 2015
Figurative Artists Jerwood Gridshell, West Sussex, 2013
In Town St Annes Galleries, Lewes East Sussex, February 2013
Sussex Landscapes St Annes Galleries, Lewes East Sussex, October 2011
At Home New Paintings and Drawings by Kate Montgomery & Teresa Whitfield St Annes Galleries Lewes East Sussex, April 2009.
Four - The London Group Kate Montgomery, David Gluck, Anthony Wishaw RA, Peter Clossick
The Walk Gallery, London 2002
One Person Show
Cadogan Contemporary
Knightsbridge
London
1994, 1996, 1998 2000 2009
One Person Show
Gallery B, Föhr, Germany
1993
Awards
Elected member of the London Group
London
1998
The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture Prize
Degree Show, Royal College of Art
London
1992
Egerton Coghill Landscape Painting Prize
Oxford University
1988
Geoffrey Rhoades Commemorative Bursary
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Oxford University, 1986
Casberd Scholarship
St Johns College, Oxford University
1986
Open submission exhibitions include
The Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, The Mall Galleries London, 2009/2011/2018
The Sussex Open, Brighton & Hove Museum and Art Gallery, 2006
The Chichester Open Goodwood, 2005
The Discerning Eye , The Mall Galleries, London 1996/1997/1999/2013/2014/2016/2017/2018
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1995/1996/1999/2000/2001/2010/2013
Work in Private Collections
Vivien Duffield, Princess Margarita of Romania, HRH The Prince of Wales, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Jack Sheppard, Kevin Kwan and sales to private individuals in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Switzerland, Germany and the USA.
Work in Institutional Collections.
St John’s College, Oxford
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College Cambridge.
The Cromwell Hospital, London.
Press Cuttings
Artists & Illustrators 2018 interview and colour reproduction.
Country Life 2018 exhibition preview and colour reproduction.
World Of Interiors 2018 exhibition preview.
Women In Art (MIA) online exhibition preview and colour reproduction.
The London Paper, September 2009 : Review of The Threadneedle Prize Exhibition and image.
The Financial Times, February 2002: review of the London Group at The Walk Gallery, William Packer.
Temenos Academy Review, Spring 2000: Two Paintings reproduced; work discussed by Keith Critchlow with notes by the artist.
The Sunday Times, November 1997: review of “The Discerning Eye”, Cosmo Landesman. Painting - b&w reproduction.
The Independent, November 1997 : mentioned in review of “The Discerning Eye”, Andrew Lambirth
Art Review, February 1995: one of ten artists selected and discussed by Nicola Shane. Colour reproduction.
The London Evening Standard, May 1994: preview of Cadogan Contemporary Show. Colour reproduction.
The Spectator, 1992: review of R.C.A. degree show, Giles Auty. Painting reproduced in colour.
Commissions
Record Cover, Tapete Records, The Catenary Wires 'Til the Morning' 2019
Major commission with London Contemporary Art
Paintings for Royal Caribbean's new fleet of cruise liners
2001, 2002, 2003
Children’s Book illustrations for “Razia, Queen of India“
Hood Hood Books, London
1997
Textile commission
Edinburgh Weavers
1992
Carpet design commission
Conoco headquarters, Warwick
1992