Kathryn Maple
- Academic board member
- Faculty
- Bespoke Courses Faculty
- Alumni, 2013
Biography
Kathryn studied Printmaking at Brighton University and undertook a six month residency at The Muse Gallery on Portobello Road before completing The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School in 2013. Kathryn was the first prize winner of the 2020 John Moores Painting Prize, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (2014 and 2016) and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, with recent exhibitions including Kathryn Maple A Year of Drawings' (2023), a solo show at Lyndsey Ingram ' and 'Under a Hot Sun' (2023) at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Kathryn is represented by Bo Lee and Workman based in Somerset. Her solo show 'Encounters' opened with the Gallery in April 2024.
On drawing
A drawing does not have to make sense, but it can hold so much value. Ideas can be quickly generated, experimenting with different materials and generating marks. Through drawing and looking I feel totally present in the moment. As things around me move I am forced to respond, becoming less precious and often more playful. The concentrated and often intense journey a drawing takes is always surprising, holding back or letting go. I find there is always something left over or undiscovered, keeping the pursuit of what a drawing can be alive.
Through teaching I hope to unpack and develop new approaches in communicating drawing. Expanding my own use of vocabulary whether this is mark making or engaging in discussion I hope to broaden my knowledge of what a drawing can be and what a line can do.
