artist statement

Katie Sollohub

Katie Sollohub, born in Winchester 1969 of Russian descent, studied art briefly at Winchester School of Art before doing a degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex 1989 - 1992. Later returned to complete her art studies at Northbrook College, Worthing.

She has been teaching Fine Art painting and drawing in adult and further education since 1997: through CCE at the University of Sussex, at Brighton Museum, and at Sussex Downs College, Eastbourne, as well as for Emily Ball's Contemporary Art Courses at Seawhite, Partridge Green. She also runs regular drawing and painting workshops in Lewes. She exhibits regularly in UK and abroad, and is involved in an International group of artists known as the London Biennale, with shows in Berlin 2004 and most recently at the ICA, London, in September 2005

Katie Sollohub documents and records the places she lives and works in through drawings and paintings, installation, performance, photography and poetry. Obsessed by spaces and objects, relating them to personal narrative and memory, she strives to explore the intimate corners of everyday spaces. Where the person is absent, their presence is evoked by the objects depicted, or the title of the piece. She uses colour in vivid energetic strokes to describe what is before her, mapping the world as she experiences it, imbuing each scene with a sense of her own passions.