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Kate Underwood - née Kate Dover - was born in Tring,
Hertfordshire in 1953.
She completed a Foundation Course at St. Albans
School of Art (where her regular life-model was the famous
Quentin Crisp), 1973 – 1974, and then a B.A Hons Degree
in Art & Design at N.E.L.P (now the University of East London), graduating in
1977.
Her graduation show was held at Battersea Arts Centre, London,
where she filled an entire room with life-sized soft sculpture
and fibreglass/resin figures, giving vent to her quirky
humour and strong sense of social satire.
Previous exhibitions include the Westgate Library, Oxford;
“The Magic Café”; Altamira and “The
Mill”
Arts Centre, Banbury.
Kate is a doll/puppet maker, textile worker and cartoonist,
and paints vibrant oil and acrylic canvases and intense
black & white ink drawings. Her work embraces landscape
and natural organic forms, myth and magic, and the frailty
of the human condition.
A keen member of Hooky Players Drama Group, she designs
and paints the sets and scenery for their productions, including
the annual Christmas Pantomime.
Kate has lived in Hook Norton for 25 years, and is the mother
of six children (aged 27 – 10), all of them artistic!
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