kate paxman

 Selected Projects

2025 algae and tufa, will you be more successful than me?, Soiree, MIC

Estuary Sensing, Mawddach Residency

2022  Excursion, Performance lecture, Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth

Sirens, performance lecture, Sentient Performativities, Dartington

2021  The New Geolinguists, Recalibration, BEAST FEaST 2021

Storm Ellen, Aeolus Online, curated by Mike Blow and Hogarth Productions

The Highest Light, for ‘Lightning Birds: A Game of Sonic Tag’, Soundart Radio + Resonance FM

2020  Rock Doves, selected by Cine Sisters SW, Plymouth Arts Cinema, Plymouth Art Weekender

The New Geolinguists, Tomorrow’s Transmissions, Soundart Radio

With all the Unsounds, Jodie Saunders’ Sonic Restoration Task, Plymouth Art Weekender

Tuesday’s Child, Kate Carr’s Interiorities Broadcasts, RTM

2019  Dimetrodon: Threshold Ecologies, Plymouth Art Weekender

Diapsid and The Highest Light, artdotearth, Dartington

2018  Diapsid, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge

2017  The Iron Coast, Fulldome Performance, Balance/UnBalance, Plymouth University

2016  Overture, Inside Out Festival, Dorset, commissioned by Activate Performing Arts

2015  Arctic Tern, Salon at St Saviours, Plymouth Art Weekender

Mutability, Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay

Beaten Earth, Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay

2012  The Inner Quarry, for ‘over the horizon’ Berry Head NNR, Brixham, Devon

2010  I Dream, Bucks Mills Cabin, Devon. Commissioned by Appledore Arts and the National Trust

2009  China Now! In Taunton, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton; The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton

2007  Uncrowned Kings, Occombe Farm, Paignton. Commissioned by the Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust

2006  On a May Evening, The Art Farm Project, Middle Rocombe Farm, Devon

2004  The Meeting of Hands and Hearts, The Gallery at UCE, Birmingham, St Martins in the Bullring, Birmingham, The Birmingham City Art Gallery, TRACES Festival, Lyon, France

Liquid Love, From OH! With Love, Group Show, Oh!art, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London

Residencies

2025 Mawddach Residency, Gwynedd, N.Wales

2022  Sprite Arts Collective Meanwhile Use Residency, Plymouth Culture, Plymouth

2015  Preston Street Union, Spacex, Exeter, with Trevor Pitt

2014-5  Smooth Space-Torre Abbey Artist’s Residency. Produced by Smooth Space in partnership with Torbay Council

2012  over the horizon, Smooth Space in partnership with Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust and English Riviera Global Geopark Organisation

2010  Bucks Mills Cabin Residency, commissioned by Appledore Arts and the National Trust

2008  China Now! In Taunton, commissioned by Hestercombe Gallery and The Brewhouse, Taunton

2004  Self-Action/Research Project, commissioned by Craftspace and the Midlands Refugee Council.

2003  Sharing the Problem, commissioned by Anna Collard, Social Action for Health, Whitechapel, London. Hosted by the St Dunstan’s Bengali Resource Centre, Stepney Green, London

2002  Connecting Cultures, commissioned by Colchester Institute, Essex. Hosted by The Healthy Living Centre, Bromley-by-Bow, London

Awards

2022  Meanwhile Use Commission, Plymouth Culture, for Sprite Arts Collective Residency

2021  Arts Council England Project Grant for Cine Sisters SW

2019  (shortlisted) Arts & Culture Fellow, University of Exeter

2018  Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice Award (first round)

2016  Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for Smooth Space project BGS350

2014  Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for Smooth Space/Torre Abbey Residency Project

Visual Arts South West Mentoring Network Bursary

PACHome travel bursary to visit the Liverpool Biennial

2013  a-n Re:view award

2012  Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for Smooth Space project over the horizon

Teaching

2023 – (ongoing)  Module Lead, MA Art, Design and Media, University of Plymouth 

2021 – 2022  University of Plymouth Associate Lecturer MA Arts and Media

2018 – 2021  University of Plymouth Associate Lecturer, BA Arts and Media School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

2014 – (ongoing)  Smooth Space Peer-Supported Critical Review Network

Education

2023  Practice research PhD candidate, Media Arts, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth

1996  Central St Martins School of Art (CSM) London. BA (hons) Fine Art

1995  School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) USA.

1993  Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Whitechapel, London. Foundation Cert