KATIE FOWLIE

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I am an independent art specialist with a strong interest in education, a commitment to the natural environment and a keenly developed ability to foster creativity in others.

I strive to make visible the generation and germination of ideas, moving away from the notion that the artists’ studio need only be a closed-off or solitary space. I want to underline the freedoms of art in a playful, energetic way - accessible for all – a change from often controlled gallery settings.

Plants have played a significant role in my work for many years; both in terms of Floriography, the hidden language of plants, alongside their many physical alternative applications.

I support a holistic way of learning, engaging with wider audiences, cultivating a deeper sense of place and have a leaning towards co-creating with communities.

I enjoy exploring the photosensitive properties of plants and seaweed. I use Kelp as a medium to illustrate its role in our socioeconomic history, how it’s shaped our landscape, and how it could mitigate our perilous future. My current interest lies in applying my knowledge of the Anthotype and Chlorophyll photography processes in ways that support this narrative.

If you would like to contact me to discuss a potential project, please email me at: kefowlie@gmail.com

CV

Academic Qualifications

2003                MFA Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh College of Art

2002                Postgraduate Diploma in Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh College of Art

2001                BA (Hons) Drawing & Painting (First Class), Edinburgh College of Art

Awarded the Andrew Grant Bequest Travel Scholarship for achievement ,Venice, E.C.A. (2003)

Awarded the Helen A. Rose Bequest Travel Scholarship for achievement, Japan, E.C.A. (2001)

Residencies

VISITING RESIDENT ARTIST | Pinhole Enterprise Project, Parkhill Primary School, Fife (2012)

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE / ART TUTOR | Senior School, Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh (2006 - 2007)

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE / A-LEVEL ART TUTOR | Senior School, Repton School, Derbyshire (2003 - 2005)

Public Engagement

REMEMBERING TOGETHER FIFE | Appointed role of Lead Artist for ‘Fife’ as part of a Scotland-wide project funded by the Scottish Government, co-creating memorials with communities in each Local Authority in response to the Covid Pandemic. Appointed by Greenspace Scotland and supported by Fife Contemporary, OnFife and Fife Coast & Countryside Trust (Fife, August 2022 - June 2024)

CYANOTYPE WORKSHOPS | Devising and facilitating a series of outdoor public art workshops along the River Leven, exploring landscape through the cyanotype process. Commissioned by the Green Action Trust (Fife, July & August 2023)

DANDELION: UNEXPECTED GARDEN | Devising and facilitating 15 public art workshops for all ages to encourage creative engagement using foraged, natural and home-grown materials. Exploring co-created collaborative photographic applications, botanical inks and natural pigments, ‘green’ photography, cyanotypes, bookbinding, printmaking, dandelion cordage, ’sewing’ gardens and mosaics (Fife, July - Sept 2022)

INTO THE OCEANIC | Lead artist, public engagement project, supporting a commissioned documentary and public art installation by artist Elizabeth Ogilvie and Rob Page for COP-26, devising and facilitating a programme of public engagement projects along Fife’s rugged coastline. We will explore ways of working in a sustainable manner in a ‘green’ darkroom, foraging for our eco-friendly photographic materials. Into the Oceanic is part of a larger Global project Ogilvie & Page are involved in called We Are Ocean, overseen by ARTPORT_makingwaves (Fife, 2021- )

FOREST BATHING | Several bespoke therapeutic artworks within East Lothian Community Hospital exploring the landscapes of East Lothian, aimed to soften the clinical environment and steep the new hospital in creativity to support a patient-centred approach to care. A site-specific body of work was created exploring and combining alternative photography techniques, the hidden language of plants (Floriography) and photograms using foraged plants from East Lothian’s landscape. Commissioned for Mental health inpatient ward & also public circulation areas, (2019)

BY LEAVES WE LIVE | Lead artist, devising and facilitating a programme of public engagement projects and exhibition with primary school pupils in response to the public art installation, MEANDER, by Elizabeth Ogilvie and Rob Page in Perth’s City Centre, Perth (2019)

LEAD ARTIST | Merchant City Festival, ‘Year of Architecture, Design & Innovation’: devising & facilitating a week of public engagement workshops, approximately 2000 participants, Glasgow (2016) 

LEAD ARTIST | Merchant City Festival, ‘Year of Green’: devising & facilitating a week of public engagement workshops, approximately 2000 participants, Glasgow (2015)

LEAD ARTIST | Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, ‘The Big Draw’: devising & facilitating public engagement workshops for the duration of The Games with approximately 20,000 participants, Glasgow Green (2014)

WIND MAPPING | Devising & facilitating an open-air public engagement workshop for Cupar Arts Festival, Fife (2013)

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR | Public engagement projects across East Ayrshire, East Ayrshire Council Kilmarnock (2005 - 2007)

Schools/Colleges /Adult

HEAD OUTDOORS | Engagement with supported secondary school pupils in the outdoor setting of Silverburn Park in Fife, on behalf of FEAT, Fife Employment Access Trust (Aug 2022 - )

BOTANICAL INKS | Creative outdoor workshop exploring mark making with botanical inks, created from locally foraged plants. Autumn Festival, Silverburn Park (October 2022)

GROW YOUR MIND | Creative outdoor engagement to help support a group of veterans reach their full positive mental wellbeing and encourage personal growth on behalf of FEAT (September 2022)

INTO THE OCEANIC | Coastal art project exploring sustainable photography and alternative camera-less photography techniques with secondary school students across Fife (Aug - Oct 2021)

FOCUS | Alternative photography project with students at Fife College, online workshop due to Covid-19 Restrictions (2021)

DRAWING MACHINES | Art workshop, Lundin Mill Primary School, Fife (2019)

TIME TO SCALE BACK | Blueprint Photography Workshop responding to coastal pollution, Lundin Mill Primary School, Fife (2018)

APOTHOCARY | Halloween Inspired Workshop, Lundin Mill Primary School, Fife (2016)

LANDMARK | Art project responding to the coast, Parkhill Primary School, Fife (2013)

PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY | Pinhole enterprise project, Parkhill Primary School, Fife (2012)

GREEN GRAFFITI | Viewforth Nursery, Fife (2013)

LIFE DRAWING TUTOR | Weekly life-drawing tutor, Repton School, Derbyshire (2003 - 2005)

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR | Public engagement projects, Repton School, Derbyshire (2003 - 2005)

PRIVATE ART TUTOR | Dairsie Castle, Fife (2001)

Commissions/Private Collections

‘The Orchard’ Mosaic | Dandelion, Unexpected Gardens | Large scale (4m) outdoor mosaic using foraged sea pottery to mark a community productive growing space (2022)

Lumens | Forest Bathing | East Lothian Community Hospital | Mental health inpatient ward & public circulation areas (2019/20)

Hide| Forest Bathing | East Lothian Community Hospital | Public Circulation Areas (2019/20)

Pinhole Photography | Permanent Collection, Edinburgh Academy (2007)

Pinhole Photography | Permanent Collection, Repton School (2005)

Film | Permanent Collection, Edinburgh College of Art (2003)

Installation | Public art commission, Art of Saving Energy Exhibition, City of Edinburgh Council (2002)

Photography |Permanent Collection, Edinburgh College of Art (2001)

Drawings | Private Collection, Scotsman Hotel, Edinburgh (2001)

Painting | Private Collection, Naim Attallah, Bond Street, London (1998)

Drawings | Permanent Collection, Edinburgh College of Art (1998)

Galleries

BY LEAVES WE LIVE | Civic Hall, Perth (2019)

TIDEMARKS | City Art Centre, Festival of Museums, Robert Callender Exhibition, Edinburgh (2018)

WORKING THE BORDER | Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington (2015)

APOTHOCARY | Halloween Inspired Workshop, Tramway, Glasgow (2014)

GENERATION | Camera Obscura Workshops, commissioned for GENERATION: 25 Yrs of Contemporary Art, GoMA & Tramway, Glasgow (2014)

WIND MAPPING | Public engagement project for artist Elizabeth Ogilvie’s OUT OF ICE exhibition, Ambika P3 Gallery, London (2014)

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR | Various public engagement projects, Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington (2007 - 2014)

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR | Public engagement projects, specifically working with marginalised teenagers out-with formal education, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock (2005 - 2007)

Art Related Work Experience

SCOTTISH BEACH FINDS | Founder, professional beachcomber and online business owner (2009 - )

LATERAL LAB | Scottish/UK based international cultural trust concerned with visual art and environment, associate and collaborator on the team of artists and curators supporting young artists and public engagement at home and abroad (2018 - )

FUNDRAISER | For artist Elizabeth Ogilvie’s ‘Out of Ice’, Ambika P3 Gallery, London (2013/2014)

BOOKBINDER | Founder and maker at ‘Wee Green Press’, (2008 -) 

PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGER| Edinburgh (2005 - 2008)

CO-ORGANISER & CURATOR| Deutzer Brücke Exhibition,Cologne, Germany (2003)

RECEPTIONIST | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (2001 – 2003)

PHOTOGRAPHER| Documenting British Artist Angus McPhee's work (2002)

ARTIST’S ASSISTANT| British Artist Tom Lawson, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh (2001)

Selected Exhibitions

Latticed Window | Solo Show, Edinburgh Academy (2007)

Group Show | Derbyshire, (2005)

MFA Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh (2003)

[spaen] | 21 International Artists, Deutzer Brücke, Cologne, Germany (2003)

Art of Saving Energy Exhibition | Mansfield Traquair Centre, Edinburgh (2002)

Group Show | Taigh-Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, North Uist (2002)

Fresh Art |Islington Business Design Centre, London (2002)

Djinniditto on the Outskirts | Joint exhibition, Edinburgh (2002)

Postgraduate Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh (2002)

29 Artists at Stills | Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (2002)

Masters of Fine Art | Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (2002)

Fairbridge Art Exhibition | Edinburgh (2001)

Three Sixty Contemporary Arts | Edinburgh (2001)

Recent Graduates Show | Scotsman Hotel, Edinburgh (2001)

Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh (2001)

Locate | Out of the Blue, New Street Exhibition Space, Edinburgh (2001)

Drawing from Life | Solo Exhibition, Hanover Street, Edinburgh (2000)

Scottish Artists | R.S.A., Edinburgh (2000)

E.C.A. School of Drawing and Painting | Edinburgh (2000)

Scottish Artists | R.S.A., Edinburgh (1999)

Solo Show | St. Andrews (1999)

Prizes/Awards

Helen A. Rose Bequest Travel Scholarship for achievement, E.C.A. (2003)

Andrew Grant Bequest Travel Scholarship for achievement, E.C.A. (2001)

Andrew Grant Travel Award for achievement, E.C.A. (1998)

CSYS Art Prize (1997)

CSYS Art History Prize (1997)

Travel

Beachcombing Expedition | Helgoland | Germany (2015)

U.S.A. | Study Trip Tutor in New York, teaching A-Level Art Students (2005)

U.S.A. | Study Trip Tutor in New York, teaching A-Level Art Students (2004)

Far East | Japan, Travel Scholarship Award (2001), China (2000)    

Asia | India, Residency at Baroda Art College (1999)

Europe | Venice Biennale, Travel Scholarship Award from Edinburgh College of Art (2003), France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Holland, Italy, Ireland

Recent Local Community Involvement

Treasurer | Victoria Rd Park Development Group, raising funds to replace and develop a run-down play area in Lundin Links, Fife. A fully inclusive Park was installed in May 2019.

Member of Largo Communities Together (2017/18), a charity we set up with the aim of developing community enterprises and outdoor recreation space on the Largo Estate, Fife under new land use laws.

Miscellaneous

Enhanced Disclosure, Member of PVG Scheme (Current)

Current Public Liability Insurance £5million

Full Driving Licence

Food Hygiene Certificate