Kate PembertonBorn in Leamington, England, 1977 Lives and works in Birmingham, U.K.
Work:
2000 BA (Hon’s) Interactive Arts - University of Wales College, Newport , UK 1997 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - Bourneville College of Art (UCE), UK Solo Exhibitions 2006 Royal Icing, Solihull Art Gallery, West Midlands, UK. The High church of Gaming, St Phillips Cathedral, Birmingham, UK.
2005 SMS, Herbert museum and art gallery, Coventry, UK.
2004 EMS at Screenplay SD, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK. Endfile, BA Window Project Space, Birmingham, UK.
2003 Cardboard Network, Flux Custard Theatre, Birmingham, UK.
2002 240v fairy’s, Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, UK.
Selected Group Exhibitions 2007 Endfile Shop , VIVID, Birmingham, UK. Chinese Whispers, Periscope Project Space, The Event, Birmingham, UK. Birmingham Open, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK.
2006 Playmobiel, Art et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Digital Wellbeing, Bluebird at Kings Road, London. Made in the Middle, various venues, Central England. Stampede, Periscope Project Space, Birmingham. UK.
2005 Art Gallery, Siggraph 2005, Los Angeles, USA. New Art Birmingham, Kettle Works, Birmingham, UK. Mobile, Arena Gallery, Liverpool, UK. Vivid Preview, Vivid, Birmingham UK.
2004 La Superette 2004, La Superette, New York, USA. Artsparkle, various locations, Leeds, UK. New Forms Festival04, Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada. Small Works, BA project space, Birmingham, UK. Blueskies, Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK.
2003 Art Machine, various locations, Tokyo, Japan. Flipside, St Paul’s Gallery, Birmingham, UK. Post-it, Floating IP Gallery, Manchester, UK. YAH festival, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK. Bath Fringe Festival Fringe Festival, Bath, UK.
2002 Plug and Play, Public Life, London. Birmingham Works, Chuck Works, Birmingham, UK. 240v fairy’s, Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, UK.
Awards 2007 Birmingham Open 3D Prize, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Awarded for The High Church of Gaming kneelers. Selected by Kathleen Soriano, Director - Compton Verney, Terry Grimley, Arts Editor - Birmingham Post and Max Kandhola, Senior Lecturer in Photographic Studies Nottingham Trent University.
2006 Textile Prize – awarded by the arts council. Awarded for work selected for 'Made in the Middle' a touring show by Craftspace.
2005 British Council Grant To show Tracert at Siggraph 2005 in LA. Creative Talent 05/06 Trophy awarded by channel 4's Ideasfactory.
2004 Peoples Choice Award, New Forms Festival 2004 My work was chosen as the peoples favourite.
Arts Council Grant To build the EMS project and take it to Canada after being selected for New Forms Festival.
2003 Haus_guest Bursary Award, Vivid, Birmingham About her work Kate Pemberton’s work addresses one of the defining characteristics of our generation: digital technology and communication. By exploring the realm of pixels and bytes her practice not only depicts what our increasingly digitized world looks like, but also offers an insightful and often witty perspective on what the digital revolution has meant for our society, and how we behave within it.
Bibliography Catalogues Made in the Middle, Craftspace Touring, 2006 SIGGRAPH, Electronic art and animation catalogue, 2005 Technography, New Forms Festival 2004
Press Endfile Bluetooth broadcast feature, The Daily Telegraph, 15/03/2007, www.telegraph.co.uk/ Terry Grimley, “reviews on the prize winners of Birmingham Open 2007 – Kate Pemberton won 3D Prize”, Birmingham Post, 13/02/2007 “Class Rosettes review”, Bunnyshop, 12/01/2007 SMS project is featured, Icon Magazine, Issue 041, 01/11/2006, www.icon-magazine.co.uk Exhibition review, Adfero News, 03/09/2006, www.adfero.co.uk Interview by Loyd Williams, BBC WM Radio, 01/09/2006 “Turning high-tech gadgetry into art”, The Birmingham Post, 31/05/2006 “Kate Pemberton”, Design Only Magazine, 01/02/2006 “System Rosettes”, Max magazine, 01/02/2006 “Q&A Kate Pemberton”, What's On, 14/01/2006, interview pg. 30 “SMS: Stitched Message Samplers”, Metro, 24/11/2005, review of solo show at The Herbert Art Gallery “SMS, DOS, and txt art”, BBC, 18/10/2005 “Making digital beautiful”, BBC, 17/10/2005 “Midlands’s talent shining”, The Birmingham Post, 07/07/2005 “Kate Pemberton”, Ideas Factory Press, 30/06/2005 “La Superette”, Time Out New York, 01/12/2004 “Get the Needle”, The Birmingham News, 13/10/2004 “A crafty take on artwork”, Metro, 13/05/2004
Online Articles Created in Birmingham, Kate Pemberton, 05/04/07, http://www.createdinbirmingham.com Prylkoll, Korsstygn för pensionerade nördar, 01/10/2006, http://www.prylkoll.se Gizmodo, Pixel Samplers: If Grandma Was a Techie, 25/09/2006, http://gizmodo.com Craftzine, Pixel Samplers, 25/09/2006, http://craftzine.com Popgadget, Pixel Samplers: embroidery for geeks, 23/09/2006, http://popgadget.net NOTCOT, #1445, 01/09/2006, http://notcot.org Boing Boing, Cross-stitched tracert output, 10/10/2005, http://boingboing.net information aesthetics, Stitched dos commands, 07/10/2005, http://infosthetics.com Textually.org, EMS craft project, 19/10/2004, http://textually.org Cell phones etc, Embroidered SMS, 06/08/2004, http://www.cellphones.ca Boing Boing, SMS messages become embroidered cross-stitch art, 28/07/2004, http://boingboing.net Protein Feed, SMS Embroidery, 30/07/2004, http://proteinfeed.net SmartMobs, SMS messages become embroidered, 29/07/2004, http://www.smartmobs.com Textually.org, SMS messages become embroidered, 28/07/2004, http://textually.org disinformation, SMS Messages Become Embroidered Cross-Stitch Art, 28/07/2004; http://disinfo.com artfuture, "Pixel Samplers" by Kate Pemberton, 28/07/2004, http://www.artfuture.com EYEBEAM, SMS messages become embroidered cross-stitch art, 28/07/2004, http://eyebeam.org web zen, gallery zen, 14/03/2003; http://webzen.org CITRIC |