Kate Downie

b.1958
Kate Downie

Born in North Carolina, Kate Downie is one of Scotland’s most respected contemporary painters, celebrated for a practice that moves fluidly between painting, drawing, printmaking and installation. After studying at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Downie travelled extensively, undertaking residencies and projects in the United States, England, Amsterdam and Paris. Over the past three decades she has built a distinctive body of work rooted in direct engagement with place, landscape and industry, responding intuitively to environments through colour, gesture and mark-making.

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Cliff Grass

ink on paper
H:38cm W:70cm
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The Trash-Turf of Brindister, Voe

ink on Xuan paper
H:52cm W:114cm
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Muckle Roe

ink on Xuan paper
H:53cm W:114cm
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Hear the Wind Blow

stone lithograph on paper
H:31cm W:76cm
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Marram

gouache and watercolour on Xuan paper
H:35cm W:74cm
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Noticed Field

oil on canvas
H:100cm W:200cm
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The Bird Cherry

watercolour on paper
H:18cm W:50cm
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Kate Downie in her Studio, 2021

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