Katrina Vivian 

Education

University of Derby School of Art, Design & Technology
Derby, England

2007 - MA ADAPT Art & Design
2005 - BA (Hons) Fine Art (first class)

Tamworth & Lichfield School of Art, Design & Technology
Tamworth, England

2002 - AA Art & Design
2002 - AS Photography
2001 - City & Guilds Photography

Exhibitions / Residencies

May 2008 - July 2008
Staffordshire Open Art Exhibition, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

Feb 2008 - March 2008
Kyoori-Ossati, Madame Lillies, London

Nov 2007 - Jan 2008

Derby City Open 3D, Silk Mill Gallery, Derby
 

Sept 2007

Artsfest 2007, Birmingham Council House, Birmingham

July 2007
Art in the Dome, Buxton Dome, Derbyshire

May - July 1st 2007
Staffordshire Open Art Exhibition, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

April 2007
No Such Thing, The Custard Factory, Birmingham

Feb-Apr 2007
Birmingham Open Art Show, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Jan 2007
Bibliomania, John Holden Gallery, Manchester MMU

Dec 2006
Postcard Show, Greendoor Printmaking Studios, Green Lane, Derbyshire

Sept 2006 
Alrewas Open Art Show, Alrewas, Staffordshire

Sept 2006
Wirksworth Festival Sculpture Trail, Wirksworth, Derbyshire

Aug 2006
Multi Ethnic Britain – Antipodean, Shoebox Theatre, Tamworth

June 2006
Staffordshire Open Art Exhibition, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

Sept 2005
Wirksworth Festival Sculpture Trail, National Stone Centre, Wirksworth

June 2005
So you think you’re an artist? Brittania Mill, Derby

April 2005
Postcards, Derby Museum & Art Gallery

Nov 2004
Green Lane, Derby School of Art, Design & Technology

April 2004
Meet the Artists, National Trust - Ilam Hall, Derbyshire

July 2002
Transitions, Tamworth & Lichfield College of Art

References available upon request.

Katrina Vivian

katrina_fa@hotmail.co.uk

References

Robert Clark
Katrina's sculptural work shows a remarkable sensitivity to the evocative potential of raw materials. She creates installations that are redolent with traceries of collective and personal memory. Her arrangements of deceptively banal object-images suggest whole worlds of lived, half remembered experience. Particularly impressive, for an artist at her stage of career, is her ability to take on quite daunting and serious themes (the Holocaust, the picturing of the unthinkable in history) and arrive at works of quite moving simplicity and depth.

Robert Clark
Artist, Arts Writer,
The Guardian,
Senior Lecturer, University of Derby

Nominations

C&G Medals
Katrina was nominated for the City & Guilds Medals for Excellence for her photographic  Broken Landscapes’.

The Judges praised Katrina’s work stating;

 “The folio shows visual and technical development of the candidate which will lead to more experimental and innovative applications as confidence develops”