Kath’s practice is tactile, embodied, and socially sensitive. She operates in spaces where meanings are fluid and boundaries remain undefined, exploring our desire to control shifting identities. Working across drawing and textiles, Kath investigates the challenge of living through transitional times. She embraces the everyday by repurposing pre-consumer waste wet-wipes, second-hand yarns, and discarded clothing—using found materials to construct new layers of meaning.
For Kath, the repetitive motion of stitching acts as a generative act, from which new forms emerge. Her work exposes women’s hidden labour and the subtle ways inequality manifests from within, holding sustainability at its core to transform the waste of modern life into objects that sit precariously between beauty and waste.
Alongside her studio practice, Kath is an experienced Head of Art and Photography at a London secondary school.
Selected exhibitions, publications, performances
December 2020: Lovett.K, ‘Wipe Away’, ed. Earley R., Research Circles, Centre for Circular Design
November 2020: Finalist in the Mother Prize, Cromwell Place, London
August 2020: Public Notice: An Exhibition, Grace and Thorn, Hackney
July 2020: Nominated for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards (AFFAs) 2021 for Materials Innovation.
June 2020: Birth Rites Collection Biennale finalist
February 2020: Visual essay in Filler Zine
January 2020: Depictions of Living, The Art Pavilion, Mile End
January 2020: Solo show - Black Box Gallery, UCA Farnham
June 2019: Shirt Stories performance, Centre for Circular Design, University Arts London
March 2019: Interview with BBC Radio on wet wipe activism
March 2019: There and Back Again conference, Center for Circular Design, University Arts London
February 2019: Nominated for the Tiffany X prize
August 2018: Sunlight, 508 Gallery, Chelsea
June 2018: The Art of Making Sense, Chelsea Triangle Gallery
March 2018: Against Static, Wimbledon Space Gallery
March 2018: Refusing to Play Cabaret, Performance, Chelsea College of Art
Qualifications
MA Textiles, UAL Chelsea: Distinction
Postgraduate Certificate in Drawing, UAL Wimbledon: Distinction
History of Art BA
Contact details
Instagram: kath_lovett
