Katy Dove

BIOGRAPHY

Katy Dove was born in Oxford in 1970 and died in Glasgow in 2015. She grew up on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands and after studying psychology at the University of Glasgow gained a scholarship to Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art where she studied Sculpture, graduating in 1999.

The practice she developed over the course of fifteen years comprised drawing, painting, printmaking, textiles, photography and moving image. Dove was active in several artist-led initiatives and co-founded the band Muscles of Joy.

Dove’s background in psychology and interest in art therapy influenced her work whilst exploring art's visceral potential. Her practice was collaborative and co-operative. Katy Dove worked with Edinburgh Printmakers to create 3 prints in 2004. She approached screenprinting with her typically playful creativity. For this edition she created shaped characters which were then moved, overlapped, and combined in different ways, suggestive of the movement of her stop-frame animations. The prints were exhibited at Edinburgh Printmakers alongside a full screen presentation of her animation.

Solo exhibitions of her work include Transmission, Glasgow; Talbot Rice, Edinburgh; and Pump House, London. Katie Dove was one of the first artists to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2003. She exhibited at Duff House, Banff for Generation (2014). A memorial exhibition of her work was held at Dundee Contemporary Arts and travelled to galleries in the north of Scotland in 2016.