About
Katy Stubbs is a South-African British artist who lives and works in London. Stubbs studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York and has completed residencies at Anderson Ranch residency, Aspen, USA, 2024, Palazzo Monti, Italy, 2021 and ALMA ZEVI, Venice in 2019. She has had solo exhibitions at ALMA ZEVI London (2020) and Lyndsey Ingram, London (2023, to coincide with Frieze London).
Stubbs predominantly works in ceramics, building each piece by hand. Each work is planned with multiple sketches, and whilst some follow the Greek ceramic tradition of urns and vessels, others are more akin to still life scenes with ceramic appendages attached. Beer bottle lids, posters, cigarettes and food pieces are often integrated into clay. Her work evokes a witty commentary on everyday life, societal problems and the fine line between comedy and tragedy. Aside from her ceramics practice, Stubbs creates paintings on metal which tap into her myriad of interests; including but not limited to magic and magicians, Americana and both natural and man-made disasters. The language of these is often taken from Stubbs’s training in illustration and from her love of comic books.
