Kate Langrish-Smith

🌟 PSSA Member Profile: Kate Langrish-Smith 🧨 We are delighted to present the work of new PSSA Member Kate Langrish-Smith, whose practice explores the language of form, materiality and movement through ceramics, assemblage and performances to camera. Her practice is sculptural and material lead using clay and other transformative and plastic materials to draw connections between bodily gesture, balance, and the physical and visual memories held by matter. She creates evocative clusters of objects that engage with embodiment, surreality, and composition - an approach that reconfigures and highlights everyday materials and forms, inviting viewers to consider the narrative and origins behind familiar objects echoed in novel forms. Her practice is represented in international museum collections including the Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art (South Korea), and nationally at Sheffield Museums Trust (UK). She is a member of PSSA and the Royal Society of Sculptors. 🚦Kate is one of the Shortlisted artists for the @london_sculpture_prize and her work will be on show at Gunnersbury Park Museum from 25th November 2025. Images: 1. ‘Half-Arched (Golden) Photo © Baptiste Coulon 2. ‘Clutched’ Photo © Nat Luk and Kate Langrish-Smith 3. ‘Dyadic’ Photo © Kate Langrish-Smith 4. ‘Postures in Landscape I, II, II Photo © Flo Carter and Kate Langrish-Smith 5. ‘Composition I’ at The Royal Society of Sculptors, Dora House, Photo © Royal Society of Sculptors 6. ‘Per-form; handling session’ at Yorkshire Artspace Photo © Kate Langrish-Smith 7. ‘Brace’ Photo © Kate Langrish-Smith 8. Installation of ‘Spiked Club’ and Self-Portrait with Club, The Naughton Gallery, Belfast Photo © Simon Mills 9. Electric Etiquette - Plastic When Wet II - at the Korean International Ceramic Biennale Photo © Korea Ceramic Foundation 10. ‘Artefact III’ Photo © Stephanie Potter Corwin, Performer Bea Perini #katelangrishsmith #pssamember

Dyadic (2021\2025) Ceramic, foam, rubber, painted wood. I am pleased to share that I have a sculpture on display as part of the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show 2025 - until 21st September. The show has been curated by Polly Bielecka, Gallery Director, Pangolin London Sculpture Gallery @pangolin.london and it features +70 artworks by RSS members, including fellow Sheffield based artist @gillianbrent This year’s theme is Sculpture in the Home, the exhibition takes as its inspiration the innovative series of Post War touring exhibitions organised by the Arts Council under the title ‘Sculpture in the Home’. These exhibitions explored and celebrated the important role sculpture plays in a domestic environment.’ You can see it at Burgh House, a Grade I Listed Queen Anne and early Georgian house situated in the heart of Hampstead Village @burghhouse1704 Exhibition: Thursday 17 July – Sunday 21 September Opening times: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays + Bank Holidays, 10am to 4pm Address: Burgh House, New End Square, London, NW3 1LT FREE ENTRY Image 1 - ‘Dyadic’ by Kate Langrish-Smith Photography by Kate Langrish-Smith Image 2 - ‘Dyadic’ at Burgh House, Courtesy of the Royal Society of Sculptors copyright by Mike Glide Photography #ArtInLondon #CreativeEscape #ModernSculpture #RSSummerShow #transformative #balance #organicformalism #materiality #interiordecor #objetdart #composition #contemporarysculpture #sculptureexhibition #sculptureinthehome

I’m pleased to be showing ‘Static Flow’ (2021/2025) in ‘To and Fro’, a display of work at @sheffmuseums featuring visual artists from @yartspace . The diverse works in the showcase are thematically linked by ideas of movement and space. It is on view in the avenue at Millennium Gallery until 19 October. @kedishacoakley @charlottedawsonart @katelangrishsmith @jamesklclarkson Emma Cocker @seikokino @tlgrrr @gillianbrent The studios are open to the public on 15 and 16 November, visit @yartspace website for more details.

Image shows a selection of my club forms being handled at the last crit session @yartspace with @tylermellins back in May. Exploring the tensions, permissions and touch through inviting the handling of the sculptures- engaging the senses and exploring the language of objects, materials and our relationships and responses to them. #tension #matter #sculpture #handling #femalesculptors #materiality #indianswingingclubs #physicalculture #ceramic #clay #touch #objects #permissions #artwork #sculptural

I’m pleased to be showing ‘Platinum Loop’ in Autumn Almanac IV, open 2nd to 23rd November at Persistence Works (Thu-Sat, 11am - 5pm). The exhibition is curated by @swseanwilliams and is a survey of contemporary practice at @yartspace ,features work by more than 40 fellow studio members. Everyone is welcome to join us for the preview on Friday 1st November, 6-8pm. The exhibition also forms part of our annual Open Studios event on 16 and 17 November, with over 100 artists opening their doors across both buildings.” There is a website article for the exhibition which you can find here: .uk/articles/autumn-almanac-iv/

Currently on display as part of The Naughton Galleries sixth annual sports exhibition, ‘DRIBBLE’ Self-portrait with Club after Giacometti and Man Ray (2021) and Spiked Club (2021) are part of a series of forms and ongoing research, in making, sculpting, using and documenting objects associated with physical culture. Previously popular physical culture objects, the solid wooden lathed fitness pins or ‘Indian Swinging Clubs’ inspired the ceramic form. The objects became fashionable in 19th century Britain, after colonists noted their use in Indian physical culture practices. They were adopted and re-interpreted in accordance with Victorian physical culture fashions and used to develop both military and civilian fitness. The image ‘Self-portrait with club after Giacometti and Man Ray’ was developed as a way of contextualising the scale of the form. It references a photograph taken in 1931 by Man Ray titled ‘Woman holding the disagreeable objet’ ‐ the ‘disagreeable object’ was made by Alberto Giacometti. DRIBBLE is open daily, 11am-4pm, until 25 September 2024 Images from Naughton Gallery @naughton_gallery by Simon Mills @photosbysi Daniel Batista Celia Croft HuskMitNavn Jules Magistry MAKIHIROCHI Sean O’Connor John Rainey Didi Rojas Casey Steffens Alex Synge Nathan Walker Justin Yoon

Currently on display as part of The Naughton Galleries sixth annual sports exhibition, ‘DRIBBLE’ Body in Landscape Postures I, II, III with Ceramic Haltere (2022) explores objects associated with the origins of sport and physical culture. The ceramic object based on the Ancient Greek Haltere, is thought have preceded the modern-day dumbbell, and would have been carved out of stone. In the images that accompany the object I explore the relationship of the body to both the landscape and the ceramic haltere in a performance to camera (📷 @florencemaisie ) playing with surreality, assumed functionality and purpose. DRIBBLE is open daily, 11am-4pm, until 25 September 2024 Images from Naughton Gallery Belfast @naughton_gallery by Simon Mills @photosbysi Including work by: Daniel Batista Celia Croft HuskMitNavn Jules Magistry MAKIHIROCHI Sean O’Connor John Rainey Didi Rojas Casey Stefans Alex Synge Nathan Walker Justin Yoon

Exhibition opening today in sunny Scarborough @oldparcelsofficeartspace @royal_sculptors MATERIAL TRUTHS – Exploring the Substance of Sculpture The materiality of a sculpture affects and impacts on the viewer’s experience and engagement with its presence. The artist’s ideas, purpose, contextual backstory and expression is held in its form, its matter and the space it occupies. Materials and their different qualities will often determine the form and narrative of a work. “Truth to Materials” was of fundamental importance to Henry Moore who stated “Every material has its own individual qualities. It is only when the sculptor works direct, when there is an active relationship with his material, that the material can take its part in the shaping of an idea”. This is exhibition by Northern and Scottish members of The Royal Society of Sculptors seeks to freely explore individual members’ material truths. Gallery: The Old Parcels Office Art Space Westborough, Scarborough YO11 1TU Exhibition Dates: 23rd March to 21st April. The curators are Paul Bonomini, Sally Gorham, and Rob Moore.

Last week to catch the body of work ‘A Taut Grasp’ made as part of the Artcore ceramics exhibition “Terra” at Artcore Gallery Derby @artcoregallery The exhibition will run until Saturday 20th January 2024. Artcore Gallery opening times are Tuesday - Saturday 11-5pm @artcoregallery - The exhibition will feature artworks by Hayley Blackwell and Kate-Langrish Smith following a two-month residency at Artcore where the artists got an opportunity to explore the ceramic heritage of Derby and Derbyshire. “Terra” embodies the spirit of Derby’s ceramic heritage, symbolizing the deep-rooted connection between our city and the art of contemporary ceramics.the body of work I made as part of the Terra residency at Artcore Derby @artcoregallery #ceramic #residnecy #artcore #derby #handbuilding #sculpture #matter #bodies #objects #composition #form

Last week to catch the body of work ‘A Taut Grasp’ made as part of the Artcore ceramics exhibition “Terra” at Artcore Gallery Derby @artcoregallery The exhibition will run until Saturday 20th January 2024. Artcore Gallery opening times are Tuesday - Saturday 11-5pm @artcoregallery - The exhibition will feature artworks by Hayley Blackwell and Kate-Langrish Smith following a two-month residency at Artcore where the artists got an opportunity to explore the ceramic heritage of Derby and Derbyshire. “Terra” embodies the spirit of Derby’s ceramic heritage, symbolizing the deep-rooted connection between our city and the art of contemporary ceramics.the body of work I made as part of the Terra residency at Artcore Derby @artcoregallery #ceramic #residnecy #artcore #derby #handbuilding #sculpture #matter #bodies #objects #composition #form

Gratitude to Squishy Sister @goodmorningmsfosterltd for capturing this impromptu walk-through performance video 😂 Last day to experience some gestures from the Squishies before we retreat back into our online space. The exhibition is open until 4pm @metrolandcultures Metroland Studios and Gallery is at: 91 Kilburn Square, London, NW6 6PS. If you are coming from the high street go through the market or down the alley next to Argos and you’ll see us across the square. The exhibition offers objects, gestures, rituals and ideas, gatherings for navigating precarious times. Brought to you by the @SquishySessions aka @elastic_fiction @materialfeels , @elizabennett_art , @perkigeo @awaitingbody , @rosina.godwin @katelangrishsmith , @_amanda_rice , @natashasabatni , @rhonaeve & @abigailfletcherstuff #London #art #research #repair #gestures #creativity #exhibition #archive #experiments

A new body of work 'A Taut Grasp' part of the Artcore ceramics exhibition "Terra" is opening today, Friday, 1st December 2023 between 5.00pm - 7.00pm - link in my bio. The exhibition will run from 1st December 2023 to 20th January 2024. Artcore Gallery opening times are Tuesday - Saturday 11-5pm @artcoregallery - The exhibition will feature artworks by Hayley Blackwell and Kate-Langrish Smith following a two-month residency at Artcore where the artists got an opportunity to explore the ceramic heritage of Derby and Derbyshire. "Terra" embodies the spirit of Derby's ceramic heritage, symbolizing the deep-rooted connection between our city and the art of contemporary ceramics.