Page 49 - Art First: Kate McCrickard: New Romantics

Her first exhibition in London, Open the Box, was with Art First in 2014, followed
by Belleville in 2016. The current exhibition, New Romantics, takes place in Art
First’s recently opened gallery space in Lambeth, with this publication marking
her first ten years of exhibiting.

There have been many group exhibitions along the way, including:
The Hour of the Little Cocktail: Drink in Print, Now and Then, C.G. Boerner
Gallery, New York (2017); Points of Contact: Printmaking in Britain 1949–2019,
Austin/ Desmond Gallery, London, curated by Julian Page (2019); and
The John Kinross 40th Anniver sary Exhibition, at The Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh (2021). McCrickard has also shown regularly in various art fairs,
notably the London Art Fair, the British Art fair, London Original Print Fair,
and the Paris Print Fair.

McCrickard’s work is included in the collections of:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The New York Public Library;
The British Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; The Davison Art Centre
(Wesleyan University, Connecticut); and The Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh).

Kate McCrickard lives and works in Paris with her husband and three young
children. She travels to the UK regularly, and her studio practice combines
drawing, painting, and printmaking.

A full record of her writing and her recent works are recorded on her website:
www.katemccrickard.com. Her exhibition history and selected works can be
found on www.artfirst.co.uk.

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