Kate Downie RSA
Kate Downie RSA is an American-born British landscape artist whose career over the past 30 years has spanned the media of painting, drawing, printmaking, performance and film. Teaching, communal art making and curating are intrinsic to her practice. Downie's work responds to subjects as diverse as North Sea oil platforms, breweries, hospitals and bridge construction.
In 2010 Downie won the RSA William Gillies Bequest Award to travel to Beijing and Shanghai to work with ink painting masters. Following on from this experience, in 2011 Downie won a position on the Red Gate Residency programme, allowing her to return to China and develop her research. In 2013 the new methodologies and techniques that Downie discovered in China resulted in the exhibition Walk through Resonant Landscape, mounted by the RSA in conjunction with the Royal Glasgow Institute Kelly Gallery.
In 2014 Downie was the Artist in Residence for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Forth Road Bridge. More recently, the new Queensferry Crossing has become a key subject in her work. Having recently relocated her studio from Edinburgh to Fife, Downie's work is increasingly looking to the landscape of the east coast of Scotland. Downie has won numerous awards and residencies throughout her career and her work appears in public and private collections worldwide.
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Kate Downie RSAConversations, 2003EtchingImage size: 55 x 40cm
Paper size: 69 x 51cm
Variable edition of 39£ 600.00 -
Kate Downie RSAFerry Down the Forth, 2009LithographImage size: 30 x 50 cm
Paper size: 56 x 69cm
Edition of 30£ 480.00 -
Kate Downie RSAThe Back of the Tweed: Dock, Cow Parsley and NettleMonoprint69 x 100 cm£ 750.00
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Kate Downie RSAThe Quarry PathScreenprint70 x 103 cmEdition of 100£ 850.00
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Kate Downie RSAMonsieur Braque's Allotment (Ceret), 2011Drypoint with watercolour wash45 x 60 cmEdition of 3£ 720.00
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Kate Downie RSAWalking the Dragon I, 2011-15Monoprint with chine collé and drypointImage size: 56 x 75 cm£ 820.00
Frame size: 74 x 93 cm -
Kate Downie RSAWalking the Dragon Wall II, 2011-15Monoprint with chine collé and drypointImage size: 56 x 75 cm£ 820.00
Frame size: 74 x 93 cm -
Kate Downie RSAWall Walk in the Mist (Gubeikao), 2011-15Monoprint with chine collé and drypointImage size: 50 x 100 cm£ 1,220.00
Frame size: 69 x 118 cm
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Outside Edge
8 October - 16 November 2022Kate Downie RSA | Helen Goodwin | Hongshen Ju | Professor Xu YunRead more
Outside Edge is the culmination of a collaboration between two Chinese and two British artists, that began with a residency in Carsaig, a remote coastal edge of the island of Mull, in 2019. -
Summer in the City
25 June - 22 July 2022The Academicians' Gallery | Free Summer in the City brings together recent works by Royal Scottish Academicians for the summer months. Featuring works by Henry Kondracki, Elspeth Lamb, Ade Adesina,...Read more -
Kate Downie RSA
East to West 9 April - 15 May 2016The Academicians' Gallery Free entry The Academicians' Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by Kate Downie RSA. East to West will feature a range of new...Read more -
Kate Downie RSA
Walk Through Resonant Landscape 31 August - 6 October 2013Finlay Room, RSA Lower Galleries Free entry In 2010 Kate Downie was awarded the RSA William Gillies Bequest Award to travel to Beijing and Shanghai to work with ink painting...Read more