Katie Spragg is an artist working predominantly in ceramics. Her work explores our interconnected relationship with nature, questioning the evolving patterns in which humans and plants co-exist. She is interested in how plants behave and how their behaviour can help us reconsider our own approach to communities, care, landscape and our place in the world.
Katie often creates work in response to participation of other people, recent projects include Lambeth Wilds (2019) at the Garden Museum with Lambeth Young Carers and Clay for Dementia group, Plants, Porcelain People (2021); a collaborative exhibition with Norwich International Youth Group and Sowing the Seed (2022); workshops for children at a community allotment with Grow Eastbourne and Towner Gallery, and Natural Practice (2023); a series of community engagement and research residencies across three Hauser & Wirth sites; Braemar, Scotland; Menorca, Spain and Somerset, England, culminating in a solo exhibition at Make Hauser & Wirth.
Katie’s catalogue of work includes a piece in the V&A collection, a permanent installation at the Garden Museum and commissions for the British Ceramics Biennale and Sotheby’s. She has exhibited with the Craft Council in London and Miami, at Make, Hauser & Wirth and with solo shows at Blackwell, Arts and Crafts House, the Garden Museum, Ruup & Form and Make Hauser & Wirth. Katie is a tutor on the Ceramics & Glass department at the Royal College of Art and a founding member of Collective Matter; an outreach group pioneering collaborative practice through clay.