Katie Spragg

Combining clay with a range of processes including animation and installation, Katie Spragg creates work that aims to arouse curiosity. Her current work explores our relationship with nature; specifically the ways that humans and plants co-exist - how we attempt to curate nature yet it grows and thrives beyond human ordering. She hopes to motivate an appreciation for the natural world, yet not be elitist about the environments that are revered – to see value in the overlooked nature that exist in urban spaces as well as vast, natural landscapes.

Through workshops and projects, Katie often creates work in response to collaboration and participation of other people, most recently with young people from Lambeth Young Carers and people with Dementia through the Clay for Dementia at the Garden Museum for an Arts Council and National Lottery Heritage funded project Lambeth Wilds (2019).

Katie’s catalogue of work includes a piece purchased for the V&A Museum collection (2017), a permanent installation for the Garden Museum (2019) and commissions for the British Ceramics Biennale (2017) and Sotheby’s (2018) as well as numerous private collections and commissions. Her work has been exhibited by the Craft Council in London and Miami (2017), included in the British Council’s touring Film Festival (current) and presented at solo shows at Blackwell, Arts and Crafts House (2018), the Garden Museum (2018) and Pi Artworks (2019).

Katie is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, a founding member of Collective Matter; an outreach group who pioneer collaborative practice through clay, and has developed a Clay for Dementia programme with the Garden Museum. Working with and in response to others and their stories is an important part of her creative practice.