Katy Gillam-Hull is a crafts artist and teacher with an MA in Jewellery and Metal from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Contemporary Applied Arts from the University of Hertfordshire with a period spent at Oslo Academy of the Arts. Based in London, she makes objects and jewellery, mostly for museum- and gallery-specific installations. Her previous residencies and exhibitions include working with St Albans Museum, Ruthin Craft Centre, Munich Jewellery Week and London Craft Week.
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Katy Gillam-Hull is an interdisciplinary artist who innovatively combines the material sensitivity of craft, the narrative richness of contemporary jewellery and walking art to make tactile and engaging artefacts which are often shared through walks that facilitate embodied material experiences. Her objects, jewellery and walks reflect upon found and archival materials, their capacity for encounter and for accumulating narrative through time. She often re-imagines these historic materials into speculative new forms and compositions, often made with real historic characters in mind, which are presented through museum displays and guided walks. Katy’s fascination with the temporality of material is reflected in her use of heritage crafts techniques, inspired by their intimate history of making by hand. However, her interrogation and subversion of such techniques results in an aesthetic of both a contemporary and historical artefact, a purposefully delightful confusion that encourages curiosity in the audience. Katy’s work currently explores themes of memorial, heirloom, monument and the anthropocentric flaws and naivety of these. She pays attention to the accidental material inheritance of the world found in the waste and remnants of history and the stories it may tell.
Exhibitions and Residencies
The Beads of Gresham Street Walk, London- Hosted by Walkative Society, August 2023
Season Gallery, London- SEAMS July 2023
Truman Brewery, London- RCA MA Graduate show July 2023
Munich Jewellery Week- JaM Cabaret March 2023
London Craft Week, Future of Craft, Oxo Tower- Absent Traces. May 2022
Safehouse Gallery, London- Work in Progress March 2022
St Albans Museum (online) - Hertfordshire Open. May-June 2019
New St Albans Museum- Abundance. June-July 2018
Unit Twelve Gallery, Staffordshire- Is it Useful. April-September 2018
Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales- Making it now. November-January 2018
London Design Festival, Mint Gallery London- Luminates. September 2017
Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales- Portal. August-September 2017
Business design centre, London- New Designers, One Year On. June 2017
St Albans museums and UH Galleries artist in residence -2015/2016 Culminating in 2 exhibitions
Rescued, Retained, Revered – Installed in both St Albans clocktower and St Albans Verulamium Museum September 2016
Business design centre, London- New Designers. June 2015
Hertfordshire University- Headlines graduate show. June 2015
St Albans Museum, Hertfordshire- Eastern Approaches. December 2014-January 2015
180 degrees gallery- Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway June 2014
Symposiums
Silt Kings College London September 2023
Awards and Bursaries
Armourers and Brasiers Award- June 2023
Behrens Foundation Bursary- September 2021
St Albans Museum Trust Award- December 2014