Kate V Robertson works in print, sculpture and installation, with a focus on materials and processes. She selects materials based on their associative connotations, often employing strategies of minimalism, Surrealism and conceptual art. Representational systems of technology, advertising and print media are all explored and tested by the materiality of Robertson’s work and the dysfunctional nature of her objects.

Her installations often play with tension and illusion – solid objects may appear yielding, or a rippling wall or cracked floor may suggest a collapse of ordinary systems and structures. The themes of failure and obsolescence are recurrent in her practice, even becoming intrinsic to her working processes. Bodies of work often become a conversation between specific and directly expressed concepts, and the fruits of accidents or experiments.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Post, Patricia Fleming, Glasgow

2019 Terminal, Govan Project Space, Glasgow

2018 Divided and Yet Mutual, Patricia Fleming, Glasgow

2017 This Mess is Kept Afloat, DCA, Dundee

2017 Object(hood), TRG3, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

2016 Semper Vigilantes, OBJECT / A, Manchester

2016 Semper Solum, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow

2016 Adaptive Expectations, Figure Three, BALTIC 39, Newcastle

2014 In Progress, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow

2013 Paper Works + other 2D sculptures, Glasgow Project Room

2012 Kilian Rüthemann & Kate V Robertson, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow

2011 Plaza, Rez de Chaussee, Glasgow

2010 Tomorrows Another Day, Market Gallery, Glasgow

2010 To Be Continued…Edinburgh Sculpture Workshops

2010 Pieces, Feinkost, Berlin

2010 What Structures, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 It Happened in Üzümlü, Golden Rule, Liverpool

2015 JHB Archive, Birmingham Open Media

2015 Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery

2014 Reclaimed: the Second Life of Sculpture, The Briggait, for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (curator/designer)

2014 Art Lending Library, UK Tour

2014 Converse, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme public art commission, various locations

2013 41 Meter Fluchtweg, Schaumbad, Graz, Austria

2013 Walls Work, Embassy Gallery Offsite Project, Edinburgh

2012 Paper, Musée d’Art Moderne et Art Contemporain, Nice, France

2012 Rough Mix, with Magnetic North, interdisciplinary workshop

2012 Nothing About Us Without Us is For Us: riverside public art project

2012 HAUNT anonymous performance series, Glasgow

2011 Vault Art Glasgow, the Briggait, Glasgow

2011 Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Hunter College Times Sq Gallery, New York

2010 All Insignificant Things Must Disappear, Trinity Church, NYC

2010 During Office Hours, Feinkost hosted by VGF, Berlin

2010 Rubble Stir, The Glue Factory, Glasgow

2010 Breaking Windows, Feinkost, Berlin

2009 Running Time, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 2009 Vantage, Bloomfield College, New Jersey

2009 Set it Up and Go, Artnews Projects, Berlin

2009 MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow

2009 Shortlisted for ‘Artists Taking the Lead’ commission, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Scotland 2009 Les Urbaines Festival [with The Cause of Inflation Damage Limitation Orchestra], Lausanne

2009 Notices, Edinburgh Art Festival

2009 Plateaux Festival [with The Cause of Inflation Damage Limitation Orchestra] Frankfurt

2008 Times Square Billboards, New York

2008 Election Tree [performance on election day] New York

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

2017 Creative Scotland Open Project Award

2017 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award

2017 Interdisciplinary Residency Hospitalfield, Arbroath

2016 Creative Scotland Open Project Award

2015 Hope Scott Trust Visual Artists Award

2015 SPACE/TIME Residency at Cove Park

2015 ESP Summer Residency, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

2014 Creative Scotland 20for14 Award

2013 Glasgow Life Visual Artists Award

2013 Creative Scotland Professional Development Award

2012 Chateau de Sacy, France

2011 Creative Lab Residency, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow

2009 Plateaux Festival of Live Art, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt [with The Cause of Inflation Damage Limitation Orchestra]

PUBLICATIONS

2018 Art Monthly, review of This Mess is Kept Afloat by Tom Emery

2018 The Scotsman, review of This Mess is Kept Afloat by Susan Mansfield

2018 The Skinny, review of This Mess is Kept Afloat by Colm Pearce

2016 Art Monthly, Glasgow International review, Martin Holman, issue 396

2016 A-N artist newsletter, Glasgow International review, Chris Sharratt

2016 The Scotsman, Glasgow International review, Moira Jeffrey

2013 Måg Magazine by NABROAD, issue 12

2012 Frieze Magazine, review by Chris Sharratt, issue 149

2012 Art Review, feature by Oliver Basciano, issue 60

2011 The Skinny, ‘Weird Silence’ by Alex Hetherington

2009 The Herald, ‘Artists Taking the Lead’ Sunday Herald

2009 ‘The Art of Being Invisible’, Sarah Urwin Jones

Kate V Robertson, Stratas, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2017. Photo: Ruth Clark