Biography
Kate-Rose Carrick is an International Academic Coordinator at London College of Communication. She is a multidisciplinary practitioner whose work encompasses sound, image and object.
Kate-Rose has spent her professional life exploring artists’ collective and research opportunities in challenging landscapes; immersing in community and cultural experiences to inform her artistic and pedagogic practice.
Since 2006 Kate-Rose has taught on a range of disciplines across the University at FE, UG and PG level in the UK and Europe; North America, SE and NE Asia. She has successfully written and delivered a condensed pilot Foundation Course for UAL in Thailand; worked as a fractional multidisciplinary tutor at UAL; ran the Part Time Foundation and covered the FT Foundation at Chelsea.
In 2010 Kate-Rose joined the International team at Chelsea, moving on to LCC in 2018. This has enabled an insight into and experience of a multitude of overseas cultural and educational institutions. She continues to deliver guest lectures on a variety of subjects including western learning and teaching methodology.
Educated at Central Saint Martins and Middlesex University with an Erasmus exchange with the Polytechnic University of Valencia, followed by an MA in Fine at Goldsmiths University. Kate-Rose completed Undergraduate and Post Graduate teaching and Learning qualifications whilst practising at UAL.
Related area
Site specific works and residencies include:
- Saint John the Baptist School Bethnal Green, London 1995 - 1996: Commissioned work Artist in Residence culminating in a permanent work.
- Neringa (Nida) Sculpture Park 1996: residence culminating in a permanent work entitled ‘Waiting’.
- Jyvaskyla, Finland 2005: Artist in Residence: invited to fabricate temporal site-specific work ‘Living off our land’.
Residential work with the International Artists Collective ESCALE:
- MAC Chile 2000: temporal installation ‘Trace’, ‘Wash me and I will be clean’.
- Valparaiso, Chile 2000: Pinochet’s Men’s Prison: working with inmates culminating in an installation and performance.
- Trafo, Budapest, Hungary 2001: Participated in performance directed by Andras Hajdu, entitled ‘ArtCup 2020’
- Abiko, Japan 2004: residency culminating in a temporal site-specific work paid for and hosted by the inhabitants of Abiko entitled ‘Breathing clean water’.
- Frijol (Quarantine island of Marseille) France 2007: Site specific performance, sound work
- Gardur Iceland 2011/2012: residency culminating in exhibition and site-specific works ‘Fresh winds of Gardur’.
Specialist areas
Research themes incorporate:
- Residue and trace, the abject object, cultural artefacts
- ‘The abject object’ left behind, in the context of shifts of power and territorial boundaries
- The phantom limb, dislocation of architectural forms, within shifts of status and political power.
- Liminal spaces, architectural holding spaces the affect/effect on then human psyche evoking both conscious and subconscious states
- Currently working on a project in conjunction with Espacio Modotti, Valencia, Spain.
- Independent project: Viceroys of India, New Delhi.
Selected exhibitions include:
- Dilston Grove, South London Gallery, London 2007: Co -curated and participated in exhibition which travelled onto Dublin and Den Hague. Supported by the Arts Council UK, entitled ‘Urban Gothic’.
- Tulca Visual Arts Festival Galway Ireland 2008: Work entitled ‘Little Bird’.
- Coleman Project Space London: entitled ‘I can’t help you’.
