Kathryn Maple
Kathryn Maple (born 1989) is an English artist based in South London who has won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and John Moores Painting Prize.
Early life
[edit]Maple was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1989, and raised in Maidstone.[1][2] She graduated from the University of Brighton in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Printmaking. She then studied at the Royal Drawing School.[3]
Career
[edit]Maple has won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition on two occasions: once in 2014 and once in 2016.[4] Her winning painting in 2014 was Fat Boy's Diner, which depicts a cafe near Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.[5] She used the £10,000 prize money to travel to India. The trip inspired her winning 2016 entry, Sandy Shoes. What Maple describes as its "part real, part imagined" scene is the product of a visit to the island of Vypin.[4]
Maple won the John Moores Painting Prize in March 2021 with her work The Common. Judge Michelle Williams Gamaker commented that the painting "struck a chord during the judging [...] perhaps because it depicts the very thing we are currently unable to share" due to Covid restrictions, and that it "embodies the deeply social nature of humans".[6][7]
Maple subsequently presented a solo exhibition at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, which hosts the prize. She is only the second of the prize's winners to do so, after 2019's winner Jacqui Hallum.[8] The Common is on permanent display at the gallery. Maple told The Guardian, "You always hope your work will get into a national collection [...] so you can return to see it when you’re 80 with your friends".[1]
Maple is a participant in the Artists Support Pledge, an initiative where artists sell their work, pledging to buy the work of another artist once their proceeds reach £1000. She has said it helped her with bills, and enabled her to buy three pieces by other artists.[1]
Maple lives and works in South London.[3][2]
Publications
[edit]- Maple, Kathryn (2023). A Year of Drawings. Anomie Publishing (published 2023-04-06). ISBN 978-1-910221-47-1.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Wise, Louis (2021-03-18). "'I went into a cold flurry and fell down my steps' – painter Kathryn Maple on her John Moores win". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ^ a b c "Kathryn Maple: A Year of Drawings". Anomie Publishing. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
- ^ a b "Biography: Kathryn Maple". Lyndsey Ingram. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ^ a b Wise, Louis (2016-08-27). "Watercolour Competition winners look to the east". The Times. Archived from the original on 2024-12-08. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
Congratulations to Kathryn Maple, who wins for the second time in three years with Sandy Shoes [...] When Kathryn Maple won this award in 2014, she used the money to travel, to gain inspiration for her work.
- ^ Wise, Louis (2014-08-24). "Watercolour competition: Southern comforts". The Times. Archived from the original on 2024-12-09. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2021-03-04). "Painting of a throng of humanity wins John Moores art prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "Kathryn Maple's 'deeply social' scene wins John Moores Painting Prize". BBC News. 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ^ "Walker Art Gallery to host art prize winner Kathryn Maple's first show". BBC News. 2022-12-02. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
