Kate Stobbart
Without question one of the most indecisive artists of her generation Kate Stobbart is influenced by a strong sense of inadequacy and a deep-seated desire to succeed.
Recent work (2025/6) has explored the role of non-verbal interpersonal communication within social settings -alongside fragments of mobile phone calls that were overheard in public.
Her current focus (2026/7) is now on hesitations and hesitant forms of communication, and will re-visit hand gestures.
Stobbart's recent live piece AAAAAGGGHH 2 - THE SEQUEL (a collective single scream to mark Trump's ongoing presidency) was at Cobalt Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne, for The Late Shows (2026)
Stobbart has had major national and international solo rejections, including Middlesbrough Open (2026) Axis Art Film Festival (2025) Baltic Bothy Residency (2024), British School Rome Connect Fellowship (2022), Hatton Call, Hatton Gallery (2020), Artangel Open (2013), Daiwa Foundation Art Prize (2012), Jerwood Drawing Prize (2011), SPILL National Platform, London (2011), Bristol Live Open Platform, Arnolfini Gallery (2010), International Streaming Festival, The Hague (2010), New Contemporaries, London (2009), Madrid Abierto (2008), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2008) and Saatchi Gallery, London (2008).
EDUCATION
2019 - Practice-based PhD in Fine Art, Newcastle University: "UM, ER it's not what you do its the way that you do it"
2011 - MFA, Newcastle University
2008 - BA Fine Art (hons), Newcastle University
1985 - Bachelor Medicine Southampton University.
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