Kate Morrison is a UK-based abstract expressionist artist and designer whose practice explores memory, emotion, and sensory experience through layered, instinctive mark-making. Her work draws on a background in woven textiles and a life shaped by movement - reflecting an ongoing fascination with place, transition, and the unseen details we carry with us.

Kate graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Textile Design (Weave) from Manchester School of Art (2016), where she was awarded the Rosenthal Prize for excellence in design. She went on to work with the design team at Missoni Home in Milan, under Creative Director Wanda Jelmini, developing bespoke visuals and client-led projects. She has also held roles at Nina Campbell, Turnell & Gigon, Missoni Home UK and Beaumont & Fletcher, grounding her creative approach in both the fine art and design worlds.

Her work has been exhibited at Chapel House, Penzance and Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall (2024), where she was also Assistant Curator in collaboration with Newlyn School of Art. In 2024, she presented her first solo exhibition, ‘Between Places’, at The Salt House Gallery, St Ives - a quiet yet powerful body of work curated and managed under her own studio.

Kate’s paintings are sensory and emotional time capsules - built through texture, repetition, and colour, often inviting personal resonance. She describes her process as intuitive and exploratory, favouring the tactile over the conceptual, and allowing the work to reveal itself through exploration of processes.

She is the co-founder of ART + WINE, a London-based, soon to be nationwide creative event series that brings together her love for community, painting, and good wine - offering accessible, meaningful experiences rooted in creative exploration and connections. Her most recent showcase was with her co founder William Watson-West were they both showcased their latest collections at Oeno Maris a up and coming fishmonger and wine bar in Newington Green, London.

Kate’s design work has received several accolades, including the Home & Interiors Design Award for Best Weave (‘Kyma’, 2023), and a World of Interiors Award of Excellence alongside Best Stand at Decorex (2022). 

Her work doesn’t shout. It invites. It becomes a quiet companion in interior spaces - contemporary artefacts composed of fragments or traces of stories, places and echoes - offering space for emotional presence and personal reflection.