Kate Montgomery studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, St John's College, Oxford and then Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1992. In the same year Kate was artist in residence at the Prince of Wales' Institute of Architecture. Her work is held in both private and public collections around the world.
Kate lives on the south coast: sources for her paintings are found through walking in the Sussex countryside, running by the sea, and the interiors and gardens of Georgian and Victorian houses and museums in Brighton & Hove.
Kate's paintings often suggest interior spaces associated with female responsibility, creativity and desire. Silent houses with children playing outside, workrooms, a costume gallery... Real time and space are avoided, permitting personal histories and fictions to be read.
Selected Exhibitions
A Spirit Inside Work by female and non binary artists from The Women's Art Collection Murray Edwards College Cambridge and The Ingram Collection at Compton Verney until September September 1st 2024 (two paintings Seawind and Night Watch included).
On Summery Afternoons (solo show ), The Campden Gallery , Chipping Campden 2023
The Art of Biodiversity (mixed show by submission), Star Brewery Gallery, Lewes 2023
Pattern Book (solo show), Long & Ryle, London, 2023
Winter Show, The Campden Gallery Chipping, Campden 2022/23
Sussex Contemporary Open i360 ,Brighton, 2022/3
Watercolour Group Summer show, Long & Ryle, London 2022
Inner Space with Dawn Beckles, Lindsey Moran and Alison Pullen. Sarah Wiseman Gallery Oxford 2022
Golden Hour (mixed exhibition), Le Salon Vert, Saanen, Switzerland Summer 2021
Quantum Contemporary Art Summer Show, West Horsely Place, Surrey 2021
Primavera (mixed show), Long & Ryle, Pimlico London 2021
L'Appel de la Montagne (mixed exhibition), Le Salon Vert, Saanen, Switzerland 2020/21
Beyond Other Horizons (mixed show), British Council Iasi, Romania 2020
Quartet, 4 artists, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh Winter 2019
Moon Gazing , mixed show, Sarah O'Kane, Fitzroy House Lewes June 2019
Dreamed House solo show Long & Ryle, Pimlico, London, May/June 2018
A Winter’s Tale mixed show Long & Ryle, Pimlico London, December 2016
Bijou mixed show Candida Stevens Fine Art Chichester, December 2016
Into The Woods mixed show St Annes Galleries, Lewes East Sussex, March 2016
Kind of Blue mixed show Candida Stevens Fine Art Chichester, November/December 2015
Good Figures The Mall Galleries London, February 2015
Figurative Artists Jerwood Gridshell, West Sussex, 2013
In Town St Annes Galleries, Lewes East Sussex, February 2013
Sussex Landscapes St Annes Galleries, Lewes East Sussex, October 2011
At Home New Paintings and Drawings by Kate Montgomery & Teresa Whitfield St Annes Galleries Lewes East Sussex, April 2009.
Four - The London Group Kate Montgomery, David Gluck, Anthony Wishaw RA, Peter Clossick
The Walk Gallery, London 2002
One Person Show
Cadogan Contemporary
Knightsbridge
London
1994, 1996, 1998 2000 2009
Gallery B, Föhr, Germany
1993
Awards
Elected member of the London Group, London, 1998
The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture Prize, Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, 1992
Egerton Coghill Landscape Painting Prize, Oxford University, 1988
Geoffrey Rhoades Commemorative Bursary, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, 1986
Casberd Scholarship, St Johns College, Oxford University, 1986
Work in Private Collections
Vivien Duffield, Princess Margarita of Romania, HRH King Charles III, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Jack Sheppard, Kevin Kwan and sales to private individuals in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Switzerland, Germany and the USA.
Work in Institutional Collections
St John’s College, Oxford
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College Cambridge.
The Cromwell Hospital, London.