Katharine Dowson
MA RCA, MRSS
Lives and works in London
Born: 1962 London UK
Education:
1989 - 1992 – MA Sculpture – Royal College of Art, London. The Princess of Wales Scholar
1985 - 1988 – BA Fine Art (Sculpture) Camberwell School of Art and Crafts, London
1984 - 1985 – Foundation The Heatherly School of Art, London
Current Exhibition
2021-2023 Cancer Revolution: Science Innovation and Hope Science Museum Touring Exhibition
May 2022 - January 2023 Science Museum, London
2020 University Collage London, Commission
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2015 Sculpting Science, Inorganic Chemistry & Research Chemistry Building, Oxford University
2013 A Transforming Light Through a Veil of Tears, Permanent Instillation, Palestinian Bible Society Chapel, Bethlehem
2013 The Institute Of International Research In Glass Research Fellow 2013 Fellowship Work National Glass Centre, UK
2010 Relics of the Mind, GV Art, London
2005 Mitosis, Henshelwood Gallery, Newcastle
2004 Move as if Breathing, The National Glass Centre, Sunderland UK
2001 Myriad, Wingsfield Arts, Suffolk
1998 Myriad, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1997 Myriad, Montpelier Sandelson, London
1996 In Vitro Installation, Back Space, Galeria, Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1995 Growth, Mayor Gallery, London
1993 Barium Meal, 181 Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 'What do we care About’ The Matter Matters Ecology Project touring China 2019
2018 Spellbound: Magic, Ritual, & Witchcraft Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. UK
2017 Blood: Life Uncut Copeland Gallery Peckham for the Science Gallery London
Science Gallery International Exhibition Presidio building, San Fransisco USA
2016 Language Deutches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Transparent Femininity National Glass Centre, Sunderland
On Form Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire
2015 Trauma Science Gallery, Dublin Ireland
The Art Of Saving A Life Commission for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2015 Berlin, Palm Springs, 2016 Seattle)
Summer Science Exhibition Royal Society London
Post Mortem Rommelaren Instituut, Gent
2014 Project Daejeon 2014 : The Brain, Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea
UK Glass, Glazenhuis, Belgium,
Full House, Aeroplastics Gallery, Belgium,
Encyclopedia Galactica GV Art London
2013 Brains: The Mind as Matter The Wellcome Collection, London (2012) Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester (2013)
2012 The British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge (2006, 2012)
Images of the Mind, Hygiene Museum Dresden & Moravian Gallery, Brno (2011-2012)
Trauma, GV Art London (2011-2012)
2011 Art and Science, GV Art London
2010 Brainstorm, GV Art London
The Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Art, London (2010, 2008, 2007, 2005, 1997)
The Glass Delusion, The National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Experiments, GV Art, London
2008 Diffracted Solstice, Aeroplastics, Brussels
2007 Medicine Now, The Wellcome Collection, London (2007-)
2006 Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics,
The Field Museum Chicago, National Museum of Health & Medicine Washington, COSI
Columbus Ohio, Memphis Academy of Naturel Sciences, Villa-Nova University, Philadelphia (2006 – 2008)
Seeing Heads, Centre for Life Bioscience, Newcastle
New British Glass, Institute for Contemporary Art, Singapore
2005 Edge, The National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2004 Paranormal, Aeroplastics, Brussels
2002 Head On, Science Museum, London
2000 Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, London (2000 - 2001)
1998 Project 8, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul ,South Korea
1992 New Contemporaries, ICA, London & UK Tour (1992 - 1993)
1991 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Awards/Residency’s:
2015 Commended, Atelier Fine Art Casting Prize, The Society of Portrait Sculptors
2013 The Institute Of International Research In Glass Research Fellow, Sunderland University
2008-11 Middlesex University Artist in Residence
2004 Arts Council, England Grant
2004-05 Sunderland University Glass Artist in Residence
2000 Gulbenkian Foundation Research Grant
1991 Granada Foundation Prize, Whitworth New Contemporaries
1992 The RCA Princess of Wales Scholarship
1985 The Heatherly School of Art Drawing Award
Collections:
The Arts Council Collection, Gift of Charles Saatchi 1999,
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation USA.
The Wellcome Collection, UK.
University Collage London
Cultura Inglesa ART Collection, Brazil.
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK.
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Aberdeen Art Gallery UK.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums UK.
The Bio-Chemical Society
Private Collections
Selected Publications:
Spellbound: Magic, Ritual, & Witchcraft (2018)
E-Squared Issue 2 (2017)
See Yourself X by Madeline Schwartman (2016)
The Art of Saving a Life, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2015)
Colliding Worlds by Arthur I Miller (2014)
Reading Room Companion, Wellcome Collection (2014)
Project Daejeon 2014 : The Brain
Brains: The Mind as Matter Wellcome Collection (2012)
Polymath, GV Art London (2012)
Trauma, GV Art London (2011)
Art & Science, GV Art and Arthur I. Miller (2011)
Relics of the Mind, GV Art London (2010)
Acts of Seeing: Artists, Scientists and the History of the Visual, Zidane Press (2009)
Glass North East, Art Editions North (2008)
British Glass Biennial, Ruskin Glass Centre (2006, 2012)
Head On, The Science Museum, London (2002)
Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, London (2000)
Myriad, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (1998)
Project 8 Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (1998)
Shark Infested Waters: Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90’s, Sarah Kent(1994)
East, Norwich Art Gallery (1992)
New Contemporaries, UK Touring Exhibition (1992)
Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery (1991)
Selected Bibliography:
Women In Art http://wearewia.com/wia-artist-profile-katharine-dowson/
Spellbound: Musermeku 24/10/2018 Angelika Schoder
Spellbound: Magia 9/9/2018 Nicol Degli Innocenti
Spellbound: Apollo 8/9/2018 Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Spellbound: Frieze 3/9/2018 Hettie Judah
Spellbound: Economist magazine 31/8/2018 David Bennun
Spellbound: Financial Times 27/8/2018 Geoffrey Mann
Trauma: Science Gallery Dublin 2016
https://labiotech.eu/bioart-katharine-dowson-hiv-brain-tumor-glass/
Huffingtonpost World Aids Day Interview, German edition:
Brains: The Mind as Matter: The Independent 1/4/12 Wired 11/4/12 Metro 28/3/12
Relics of the Mind: Where to Buy, The Week 2 Oct 2010
Relics of the Mind: Market News The Daily Telegraph 14 Sept 2010
Head On: Times Educational Supplement, Scotland (March 2002) Heather Neill
Head On: The Guardian (March 2002) Tim Radford
Spectacular Bodies: The New Statesman (November 2000) Lisa Jardine
Spectacular Bodies: The Guardian (December 2000) Peter Conrad
Spectacular Bodies: Independent on Sunday (October 2000) Charles Darwent
Spectacular Bodies: Evening Standard (October 2000) Annabel Freyberg
Myriad: Manchester Metro News (July 1998) Nadine Johnson
Myriad: Journalist, Tate Gallery Magazine (Summer 1998)
RA Summer Exhibition:The Daily Telegraph (June 1997) John McEwen
Growth: Art Monthly (July/August 1995) Godfrey Wordsdale
Growth: Time Out (June 1995) Rose Jennings
Barium Meal: Galleries Magazine (May 1993) Rebecca Fortnam
BT New Contemporaries: The Guardian (July 1992) Robert Clark