Bio
Katie Elder completed her BA in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University and graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2010 with a Masters in Fine Art-Painting. She currently has her studio as part of the Bomb Factory Art Foundation in North London where she continues her practice
She has exhibited at a number of galleries and art fairs, predominantly in London with her international debut in New York at the Broadway Gallery, 2010. In 2013 she was the youngest artist to be selected for the Critics’ Secrets Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. She was championed by the critic, writer and poet Edward Lucie-Smith. In recent years she has also turned her hand to portraiture - a natural progression as the human form has always been central to her work. She has assisted the renown artist, Patrick Hughes, for several years now, and at the start of 2018 showcased her work with Hughes and his other studio assistants at ART HIX gallery.
Selected Exhibitions
2019
The Flourish of Liberty– Shandy Hall, Laurence Stern Trust, Yorkshire –June
XL x LX – Shandy Hall, Laurence Stern Trust, Yorkshire – May
2018
Annunciation as St Brides Church, Fleet Street, London - December
12 Hughes – HIX ART Gallery, Shoreditch London - February
2016
Group Print Exhibition - The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Archway, London
Paint Her To Your Own Mind– Shandy Hall, Laurence Stern Trust, Yorkshire –July
2014
Made in Bermondsey, Bermondsey Project Space, London - September
2013
Critics’ Secrets– The Mall Galleries, London – June
Championed by Edward Lucie-Smith
START13 – The Bermondsey Project Space, London - February
2012
The Other Art Fair, Marylebone, London - November
Exhibition at Channing School, London - September
Postcardwall; art/ words/,VEGAS Gallery, London – August/September
Polemically Small Formula, Orleans House, Richmond - June
Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith and Xavier Ellis
Contemporary Perspectives, The Mall Galleries, The Mall London - April
The Magma Group, Rag Factory, Brick Lane, London – April
Postcardwall; a catalogue,The Mall Galleries, The Mall London - April
2011
Into the Wild – The Long White Cloud Gallery, Hoxton - September
Connection Point London, Bermondsey Project Space, London - June
Curated by Edward Lucie Smith
2010
Wimbledon College of Art MA Degree Exhibition, London – September
Underground on Broadway, the Broadway Gallery, New York – July
Wimbledon College of Art MA Interim Show at The Nunnery, London – February
Education
2009 – 2010 MA Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London
2005 – 2008 BA(hons) in Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University , Oxford
2004 -2005 Foundation Fine Art Diploma, Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts, London