Katie Spragg

Katie Spragg is a ceramic artist and educator, lives and works out of London. In 2016, she earned her Masters from Royal College of Art in Ceramics and Glass. Katie’s catalogue of work includes a piece in the V&A Museum collection and commissions for the British Ceramics Biennale and Sotheby’s. Her work has been exhibited by the Craft Council in London and Miami, included in the British Council’s touring Film Festival and presented at solo shows at Blackwell, Arts and Crafts House and the Garden Museum.

Katie tutors at the Royal College of Art, is a founding member of Collective Matter; an outreach group who pioneer collaborative practice through clay and has developed a Clay for Dementia programme with the Garden Museum. Her current project at the museum with Lambeth Young Carers has been awarded Arts Council funding.

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Selected Exhibitions

Use & Ornament, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, October 2021

Garden of Earthly Delights, Joanna Bird Gallery, London 2021

Plants, Porcelain, People: Katie Spragg & Norwich International Youth Project, St Peter Hungate, Norwich, May 2021

Ceramics: Facing the New, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland, May 2021

Gathering, Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, November 2020

Crafts Council’s Collect, Ruup & Form, 2020, Joanna Bird Gallery, 2019, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, 2018

Nature Moves In, solo show, Pi Artworks in Collaboration with Ruup & Form, September 2019

David Gates: In Conversation, Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, August 2019

A Natural Selection, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, May 2019

Katie Spragg - Glasshouses, solo show, Garden Museum, London, July 2018

Katie Spragg Ceramics, solo show, Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere, January 2018

Material Earth II, Messums Wiltshire, Wiltshire, February 2018

British Craft – The Miami Edit, FORM Miami / The New Craftsmen, Miami / London, December 2017

BCB AWARD show, British Ceramic Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent, September 2017

Landscape of Objects, Forde Abbey, Curated by Flow Gallery, Somerset, September 2017

Young Masters Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Cynthia Corbett Gallery at Gallery 8, London, June 2017

Real to Reel, Crafts Council and British Council Film Festival, Touring: inc UK & South Korea, May 2017 - current

Spotlight Space with Flow Gallery, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, February 2017

Future Heritage at Decorex, Syon Park, London, September 2016

Show 16, Royal College of Art, London, June 2016

Paper, Publication, Performance, Lychee One Gallery, London, April 2016

Emerging & Established, Ceramic works by Picasso, Staff and Students from the RCA, Christies, London, February 2016

Fragile in Transit, International Travelling Exhibition, August 2012 - August 2013

Souvenir, Pump House Gallery, London, June 2012

Network 2012, Grimmerhus: Denmark’s International Ceramic Museum, April 2012

Designers of the Future, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, June-July 2010

Public Collections

Garden Museum, Lambeth Wilds, Commissioned 2019

Victoria and Albert Museum, Hedgerow, Purchased 2017

Worshipful Company of Tin Makers Alias Wire Workers ‘Company Treasures’, Acquired 2015

Museum of London, Oh! The Jubilee, Souvenir Plate, Acquired 2012

Residencies

Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark, 2012 and Invited Guest Artist 2018

Cove Park, Fenton Arts Early Career Residency, Scotland, 2017

Forde Abbey with Flow Gallery and Somerset Art Works, Somerset, 2017

Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Scotland, 2016

Victoria and Albert Museum, Ceramics Studio, Graduate Residency, London, 2010

Seoul National University, Ceramics Department, Awarded Prime Minister Funding, South Korea, 2009

Awards and Achievements

Shortlisted for Whitegold international Ceramics Prize, 2019

Shortlisted for Liaigre Prize, Collect, 2018

Shortlisted for British Ceramics Biennale AWARD, 2017

Winner BSAA Young Masters Prize & Highly Commended Young Masters Emerging Women’s Prize, 2017

Charlotte Fraser Award, awarded at RCA Ceramics & Glass WIP Show, 2015 and 2016

The Grocers Company Bursary, awarded to an RCA Ceramics & Glass student, 2015

June and Sidney Crown Dissertation Prize for Criminality and Clay: An Investigation into Victorian Staffordshire Portrait Figures of Infamous Murderers, 2010

Selected Teaching and Public Engagement

Tutor, Royal College of Art, London, 2017 – Current

Clay for Dementia Artist and Facilitator, Garden Museum, London, 2017 - Current

Tutor, Royal College of Art, PG Cert in Creative Education, 2020 – Current

Visiting Lecturer: University of Brighton, Staffordshire University, Norwich University of the Arts, ongoing

Plants, Porcelain, People, Arts Council Funded project with Caroline Fisher Projects, Norwich, 2021

Course Validation, University of the Creative Arts, 2019

Lambeth Wilds, Arts Council Funded project with the Garden Museum, 2019

Invited speaker with Collective Matter, NCECA, 2018, CoCa: Restating Clay, 2019, Ceramic Art London, 2019

Education Artist, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2011 – 2019

Tate Exchange Artist with Collective Matter, Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership, London, 2016

Big Draw Artist, Garden Museum, 2017