Katie Dove
1970, Oxford. Lives and works in Glasgow

Katie Dove presents us with a fugue of newly born forms emerging slowed down, and arranged for retinal pleausure: a hypnotic dance of assimilation and disintegration.

Forms like children absorbed in play, guided by a tension between isolation and synchronicity: freedom with the gentle terror of disappearance.

We continue to look and are confirmed by families of abstract figures. They float in sublime unison: The synchronized swimmers of our neutral networks tracing the intimate space between surface and the act of seeing.

And as our gaze ossifies we see the virgin flight of an untested platonic form emerging from Monet’s deification of surface. We see Icarus given a second chance and choosing not to change a thing, refuting transcendental rhetoric with the sheer pleasure of surfacing, of appearing, of becoming.
— David Huxtable



Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Transmission, Glasgow; 2000: Collective, Edinburgh.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: 50a Biennale di Venezia; I Am A Camera, Mu, Eindhoven, Holland; 2002: The Stray Show 2002, The Seven Three Split, Chicago; Video Holiday, The Project Room, Philadelphia; Ladies’ Rock, The Changing Room, Stirling; Perspective 2002, The Pormeau Baths, Belfast; Our Anomaly, Glasgow Project Room; Global Economy, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse, Nantes; Member Show, Transmission, Glasgow; 2000: Colebrooke Place, Artist-run exhibition in Glasgow flat; It’s In Your Head, Generator, Dundee; 1999: Citizen 2000, Collective, Edinburgh.



Untitled, 2003. Pencil on paper, 13 x 13 cm. (detail).

Untitled, 2003. Felt tip pen on paper, 21 x 12 cm.

Untitled, 2003. Felt tip pen on paper, 16 x 16 cm. (detail).