Kate Milsom

I began producing elaborate mixed media pieces while on my long stay in Venice, making use of the city-floor ephemera of discarded museum leaflets and postcards. Incorporating ‘scraps’ of the past, sourced from secondhand books and magazines, and the maps I grew up with as the child of an intrepid Geophysicist, I produced a diary of sorts, the alternative reality of a history I invented for myself. I have since developed this way of working, often inspired by current events, creating ‘intricate scenes of social malfunction’, my investigations into ‘the human condition’ through a series of imagined portraits.

I studied Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University, spending my final year at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on an extended travel award. Graduating in 1992 I moved back to London, where for a time I slipped into the world of graphic design and illustration, working for Raymond Loewy International, and subsequently becoming Course Tutor at Lambeth College, and later a lecturer at Worcester University.

By the late 1990s, emboldened to pursue my painting career by formidable gallery owner and art advocate the late Elizabeth Organ, a series of events shaped my subsequent work, beginning with the move from London to unfe...

BA (Hons) Fine Art
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1991-1992
Oxford Brookes University 1989 - 1991

2024 Bradleys Building Llandrindod Wells
2022 Society of Women Artists
2021 Society of Women Artists
2021 Oriel Y Bont | USW
2020 Society of Women Artists
2020 Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2019 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2019 Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2018 7 Painters, GalaFineArt , Bristol
2018 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2018 Vis-à-Vis Oriel Y Bont
University of South Wales.
2018 Solo Show, Martin Tinney, Cardiff
2018 Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham
2018 Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2017 Winter Show, Martin Tinney, Cardiff
2017 Edinburgh Art Fair
2017 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
2017 25 years Part I & II, Martin Tinney, Cardiff
2017 Legend, MOMA Machynlleth
2017 Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham
2017 Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2017 40 Days | 40 Artists, Discoyd, Powys
2016 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2016 Manchester Buy Art Fair
2016 Edinburgh Art Fair
2016 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
2016 Menier Gallery, SE1
2016 Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2016 Gala Fine Art, Bristol
2016 Lion Street Gallery, Hay on Wy...