Kate Holford is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. She is interested in stories and affects of desire, violence, and melancholia, and the ways image-making can express and manipulate them. Many projects consider these ideas in relation to landscape and extraction. Her research integrates the political potentials of fiction, and of psychoanalysis. She works with painting, installation, drawing, photography and writing.
Kate’s work has been exhibited in London, Glasgow, Bristol and elsewhere in the UK. In 2025-26 she developed a body of research with artist Pippa Thomas, undertaking a residency at 16 Collective
Kate is currently the Co-director and Curator of Boardroom Committee Room CIC, Glasgow, and was Co-founder and Art Director of Stillpoint Magazine from 2018-2022.
Contact: kmholford[at]gmail.com
Selected Exhibitions
2026: OUTPOST members show selected by Market Gallery, OUTPOST Norwich
2026: Death by Landscape, duo show with Pippa Thomas, 16 Collective, Glasgow
2024: That unquestionable bloom, solo show, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow
2024: In every shadow, group show, BlackShed Gallery, East Sussex
2024: eternal interstice 20-06-24, online, eternal-interstice.co.uk
2023: Life is Short! group show, Cathkin Park, Glasgow
2018: In the stories there is an abundance, solo show, Stillpoint Spaces London
2015: Doppelgängers, group show, Strand Gallery, London
2013: Now Falmouth, group show, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2013: The Near and the Elsewhere, 3-person show, Bristol
Selected Curatorial
2025-26: Co-Director & Programme Curator, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow
2023: Life is Short! Exhibition and publication co-curator, Glasgow
2023: Short Lapses, Long Rolls, Curatorial support, 3-person show, SaltSpace, Glasgow
2018-22: Co-founder & Art Director, Stillpoint Magazine
2020: Imagine the Future, Jessica Holdengarde, Curator, Glasgow
2017-19: Exhibitions & Events Programmer, Stillpoint Spaces London
Lectures
2023: Ambiguities: On the origins, practices, and programming of Stillpoint Magazine, Postgraduate Professional Practice Lecture Series,
The Glasgow School of Art
Residencies
2026: Holding Practice, with Mina Heydari-Waite & Kate Timney, supported by Creative Scotland
2025: Winter Residency, 16 Collective
2023: Jamie Crewe Winter School, Lux Scotland
2021: Interdisciplinary Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
Education
2020: M(Litt) Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art), Glasgow School of Art/University of Glasgow
2013: BA(Hons) Fine Art, Falmouth University
2026 Study for the land of concealment
Death by Landscape
2024 The Land of Concealment
That unquestionable bloom
2023 Evaporated Milk
Case Images
2022 Setting a Fire
2021 ANGEL
2020 Dear Lithium
2019 A Romantic Night
2018 The Rural America Project
In the stories there is an abundance
Curatorial
2026 Boardroom Committee Room
A Present Disturbance
2023 Life is Short!
Ways to Fall
2022 Stillpoint Magazine
2020 Imagine the Future
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