Katie Spragg British, b. 1987

Education

Postgraduate Certificate, Creative Higher Education, Royal College of Art 

MA, Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art 

BA(Hons), 3D Materials Practice, University of Brighton

 

Solo Exhibitions

2025

The Fragmented Landscape, Ruup & Form with invited artists

2023-24

Natural Practice, Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset

2021

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

2019

Nature Moves In, Ruup & Form @ Pi Artworks

2018

Katie Spragg - Glasshouses, Garden Museum, London

 

Katie Spragg Ceramics, Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Porcelain Dreams, Ruup & Form,

2022

Beyond Nature, Make Hauser & Wirth @ Hauser & Wirth Saville Row, London,

 

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

2021

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

 

Garden of Earthly Delights, Joanna Bird Gallery, London

2020

Gathering, Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset,

 

Crafts Council’s Collect, Ruup & Form, 2020 & 2023, Joanna Bird Gallery, 2019, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, 

2019

A Natural Selection, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

2018

Material Earth II, Messums Wiltshire, Wiltshire,

2017

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

 

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

 

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

 

Real to Reel, Crafts Council and Britsh Council Film Festival, Touring: inc UK & South Korea

 

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

2016

Future Heritage at Decorex, Syon Park, London

2012

Souvenir, Pump House Gallery, London

 

Network 2012, Grimmerhus: Denmark’s International Ceramic Museum

2010

Designers of the Future, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

 

 

Public Collections

2019

Lambeth Wilds, commissioned by Garden Museum

2017

Hedgerow, purchased by Victoria and Albert Museum  

2015

Company Treasures, acquired by Worshipful Company of Tin Makers Alias Wire Workers  

2012

Oh! The Jubilee, Souvenir Plate, acquired by Museum of London

 

Residencies

2023

Hauser & Wirth multi-site residency, Braemar, Scotland; Menora, Spain; Somerset, England

2022

MAKE Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange, Iceland

2018

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

2017

Cove Park, Fenton Arts Early Career Residency, Scotland

 

Forde Abbey with Flow Gallery and Somerset Art Works, Somerset

2016

Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Scotland

2010

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

2009

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

 

 

 

Awards and Achievements

2025

RCA Impact Fellowship, Making With. Sharing and amplifying Clay for Dementia workshops, AHRC funded

2022

Shortlisted for HAF Award with Towner Gallery,

2019

Shortlisted for Whitegold international Ceramics Prize,

2018

Shortlisted for Liaigre Prize, Collect,

2017

Shortlisted for British Ceramics Biennale AWARD,

 

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

2015-16

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

2015

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

2010

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