Biography
Katharine Morling is an award-winning artist working in the medium of ceramics. She set up her studio in 2003 and has since gained international acclaim for her work. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2009, she has won the Arts Council ‘Award for the Arts’ two years in a row and was awarded First prize at the 2010 World Crafts Council Triennial in Belgium. Morling also represented the UK at the 2010 European Ceramic Context in Denmark and was selected for the ‘Award’ exhibition at British Ceramic Biennial. For COLLECT 2011, she showed a new installation ‘Out of the House’ in the Project Space of the Saatchi Gallery.
In 2012, Morling created a large wall mounted installation commissioned by the Royal London Hospital through Vital Arts, for the new children’s ward and the New Dance Commissions at the Royal Opera House created a new dance piece inspired by her work.
As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Morling was invited to create an artist’s response to the Staffordshire Hoard. Morling designed 10 large ceramic sculptures of mythological godlike creatures, which represent the deities that the Anglo Saxons might have worshiped. ‘Morling and the Hoard’ is now on permanent display alongside the Staffordshire Hoard at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent. Morling is represented by Long & Ryle gallery London, and for her large scale Installations is represented by the Balman Gallery Corbridge, Northumberland.
