KATE THOMSON's C.V.


Public Commissions

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

International Sculpture Symposia


1961 Born in St. Albans, Great Britain.
Primary and secondary education - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
1979 Awarded "Community Services" prize for 2 years voluntary work co-ordinating social activities for Craighouse Hospital & Garfield Home for Handicapped Children
1979-83 B.A Hons. in Fine Art, University of Newcastle-u-Tyne, Great Britain.
" Set & costume designer, & ASM, for Newcastle University Theatre Society
Founder member, choreographer, set & costume designer, & dancer for NU Dances Company
1983 Taught Dance/Movement/Sculpture Workshops:
Bonar Hall, Dundee; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; D.L.I Museum & Arts Centre, Durham, UK.
1984 Artist in Residence in two secondary schools, Newcastle-u-Tyne, England.
1984-1987 Artist in Residence/Community Artist in the Gorbals,Glasgow, Scotland.
1988 Founder Director & Company Secretary of Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Scotland.
" Organiser & participant College Lands Sandstone Sculpture Project, Glasgow, Scotland.
" Attended the International Sculpture Conference, Dublin,Republic of Ireland.
1991 Established Ukishima Sculpture Studio, Iwate, Japan.
1992 Consultant for Miyakoda Public Sculpture Project, Hamamatsu, Japan.
1993 "Gift from the Sea", private monument, Ardeche, France.
1994 Worked on Fountain Monument for Furusato Nigiwai Plaza, Hashikami, Aomori, Japan.
" Private monument, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan.
1997-2000 Member of Advisory Committee, Michinoku Mystery Film Festival, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
1997- Consultant for Ohkurayama ArtistsfWork Camp, Miyagi, Japan.
1997- Associate Member, Japan Institute of Architects, Iwate, Japan
1998

Juror for sculpture section, Iwate Prefecture Festival of Art, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

" Innitiator & Festival Co-ordinator, Iwate Art Festival UK98, Iwate, Japan
2000 Awarded "Best Artist Of the Year - 1999", Iwate Prefecture Board of Education, Japan
" 2 months working at Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland.
2001 Co-ordinator for Hironori Katagiri`s exhibitions, lectures, and residency project as part of the Japan 2001 Festival, UK
2003 Selected for the Japanese Comtemporary Sculpture Competition, Maquette Exhibition, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
2003 Selected for the Kajima Sculpture Competition, Maquette Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Invited speaker for the Stone Work Symposium 2005, Ohio, USA
2006 Member of Organising Committee, "Tokyo Ikebukuro Art Festival 2006", Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
Visiting lecturer in art schools, architecture departments, and various institutions in Japan since 1990, and the Fine Art Department, University of Newcastle-u-Tyne, UK in 1991. Freelance arts writer for "The Japan Times" (national English language newspaper)

Public Commissions

1991 Yurinoki-dori Sculpture Project, Hamamatsu, Japan.
1991 V.J.Bering Monument Plaza, Ajishima, Miyagi, Japan.
1992 Fountain Monument, Contemporary Poet Park, Kitakami, Iwate, Japan
1992 "Moon Echo", monument for Gobanshyo Park, Ojika, Miyagi, Japan.
1992-1993 Sculpture Project for NEOX, Chiba New Town Chuo, Japan.
1992-1993 PACT project, Monument for the centenary of Sendai Dai-ichi High School, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
1993 "Listen to the Wind", sandstone monument, Irvine New Town, Ayrshire, Scotland.
1995 Monument for the 50th Anniversary of Tsuchiyagawa Town, Iwate, Japan.
1996 Sculpture for Spash-Land Park, Shiroishi, Miyagi, Japan.
1998 Monument to Henry Dyer, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
and the Marine Technology Centre, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.
1998 "Waves of Affinity" Monument for UK98, British Embassy in Japan, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Sculpture for the EDA Garden Project, Tokyo, Japan
1999 "Family", statue for Children`s Centre, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
1999 Street furniture for Hirosaki City Land-readjustment Project, Aomori, Japan
2002 "Celtic Key" sculpture for Asahi Seimei Insurance Building, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
2003 "Lunar Cycle", light sculpture for the entrance of Sakai Hospital, Iwate-cho, Iwate, Japan
2003 "Iwate Red Data Book", Iwate Numakunai Art Road, Iwate, Japan
2004 Sculptures for "Dorchister Minamiaoyama", Minamiaoyama, Tokyo, Japn
2004 Sculptures for "Nango library", Nango, Aomori, Japn
2006 Sculptures for "High Home Hiratsuka ", Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan
2007 Sculpture for "Fortissimo H", Nagoya, Japan
2007 Sculpture for "Praud Fujimigaoka", Fujimigaoka, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Sculptures for "Praud Shin-Urayasu", Shin-Urayasu, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Sculptures for "Praud Shin-Urayasu", Kashiwanoha Campus, Chiba, Japan
2008 "Moon Dance", Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2008 "Messenger", Toyosu, Tokyo, Japan

Work in public collections in Japan, America, Austria, Lebanon, and Great Britain
Work in private collections in Japan, Germany, France, and Great Britain.

Solo Exhibitions

1983 "Dance - Sculpture & Drawing". Bonar Hall, Dundee and Belford Dance Centre, Edinburgh,Scotland
1989 "Journey To The Sea", One Woman Show, Honda Clio Gallery, Sendai, Japan.
1999 "Part of the Maze", Morioka Crystal Gallery, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
2001 "Drawings & Small Sculptures", Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club, Tokyo, Japan
2001

"Light", Morioka Crystal Gallery, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

2002 "Seventh Heaven", Bansui Gallery, Sendai, Japan
2003 One Woman Show, Moriioka Crystal Gallery, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
2004 "Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri",two man show, Space TRY Gallery, Shiroganedai, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

1983 "Tyne Tees Northern Open", touring exhibition, England.
"Movement", DLI Museum & Arts cventre, Durham, England.
1985/86/87 Gorbals Fair Society Arts Project, Glasgow, Scotland.
1985/86/87 Christmas Exhibition, Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
1986 Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy,Edinburgh, Scotland.
1986 "Open Circle - Sweinfurt Exhibition", touring West Germany.
1986 "Three Community Arts Projects", Transmissions Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
1986 "The Barras", Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
1988 "Torch" exhibited in the SSHA Garden, Glasgow Garden Festival 1988, Scotland.
1988 "College Lands Sandstone Sculpture Project", Glasgow.
1989 "Work from Glasgow Sculpture Studios". Springburn Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
1990 Guest Artist, "Masterpieces from the British Arts Council Collection", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
1990 "4th Japan Stone Product Concours", Oshima, Ehime, Japan.
1991 "First International Japan Stone Fair", Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.
1992 "NL40 in Iwate Sculpture Exhibition", Iwate, Japan.
1993 "Small Sculptures", Konishi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
1994 "Celtic Festival", Tokyo Ryutsu Centre, Japan.
1995 Yamanashi International Centre, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
1996 "Two Sculptors - Kate Thomson & Hironori Katagiri", Shirai Gallery, Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan.
1997 Invited artist, Iwate Prefecture Art Festival, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
1997 "Celtic Festival", ASIZ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1997 "Discovery in Known Space", Samurai House, Shiroishi, Miyagi, Japan
1997-1999 Iwate Festival of Art, annual exhibitions, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
1998 "Affinity", Iwate Art Festival UK98, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
1999 One Woman Show, Moriioka Crystal Gallery, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
2001 "Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri", Bansui Gallery, Sendai, Japan
2002 "10th Shiroishi Sculpture Exhibition", Samurai House, Shiroishi, Miyagi, Japan
2002 "DaikanYama Art Fair 2002", art Front Gallery, Tokyo
2002 "Charity Exhibition for Unicef", Bansui Gallery, Sendai, Japan
2003 Macquette exhibition, "Japanese Comtemporary Sculpture Competition", Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
2003 "Small Sculptures from Iwate sculpture Symposium in 30 Years", Ishigami no Oka Gallery, Iwate, Japan
2004 "Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri", SpaceTRY, Shiroganedai, Tokyo, Japan
2005 "Into Unknown Landscape", Bobiro Gallery, Mejiro, Tokyo, Japan
2005 "Song Sook-Nam's Pictures and Kate Thomson's Sculptures", Sendai Mediateque Gallery, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2005 "Kokaido Art Show 2005", Iwate ken Kokaido, Morioka, iwate, Japan
2006 "Art/Room", Art Front Gallery, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
2006 "Tokyo Ikebukuro Art Festival 2006", Takata Primary School, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
2007 "Kokaido Art Show 2007", Iwate ken Kokaido, Morioka, iwate, Japan
2007 "10th Anniversary Exhibition", Bansui Gallery, Sendai, MIyagi, Japan
2008 "Eloquence of Material", 4 man show, Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan

International Sculpture Symposia

1987 Assistant, Lumsden International Sculpture Symposium, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
1988 Organiser & participant, College Lands Sandstone Sculpture Project, Glasgow, Scotland.
1989 Invited Artist, Lindabrunn International Sculpture Symposium, Austria.
1989 Assistant, Sendai International Sculpture Symposium '89, Sendai, Japan.
1990 Assistant Artist, Park Hills Tawara Sculpture Symposium,Kansai Science City, Osaka, Japan.
1990 Invited Artist, 3rd Vermont Sculpture Symposium, Vermont, U.S.A.
1990 Invited Artist, Malta-Oshima Sculpture Symposium, Oshima, Ehime, Japan.
1996 Invited Artist, Nanao International Artist Camp, Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan.
1997 Invited Artist, NL40 Sculpture Symposium, Iwate-town, Iwate, Japan
2002 Invited Artist, Rachana International Sculpture Symposium, North Lebanon

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