KATE MCCGWIRE Archives

Vigo Gallery now represents Kate MccGwire

27 July 2026 • Mark Westall

British sculptor Kate MccGwire joins Vigo Gallery, bringing her internationally recognised feather sculptures to the gallery’s programme.

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Rock Paper Scissors at CLOSE Gallery: A Study in Play, Materiality and Slow Looking

8 December 2025 • Lee Sharrock

Bringing together eleven contemporary artists working across sculpture, ceramics, textiles, installation, and mixed media

Art of a Feather: Kate MccGwire’s works come to life at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

28 October 2025 • Tabish Khan

Feathers emerge from the floor and walls, and are encased within vitrines.

Kate MccGwire GLITCH opens in Paris at Les Filles Du Calvaire.

17 April 2025 • Mark Westall

In these uncertain times, MccGwire’s work reflects our confusion. Here, there is something askew—working both with and against her innate pull toward perfection and verisimilitude.

Review: Reimag(in)ing the Victorians at Djanogly Gallery

10 December 2023 • Theo Ellison

Spread across four rooms of the Djanogly Gallery in Nottingham, this exhibition looks to serve up that treat by evaluating how the Victorian legacy maps onto our present day.

Kate MccGwire & Co-Lab369 create ‘Enigma’ a limited edition of artist-designed scarves

13 November 2023 • Mark Westall

Artist Kate MccGwire has joined forces with Paris-based Co-Lab369, to create a series of limited-edition artist-designed scarves.

Guerlain looks to the future as it presents its new exhibition, Gaïa, what are you becoming?

21 August 2019 • Mark Westall

In the name of the beauty of the planet, Guerlain looks to the future as it presents its new exhibition, Gaïa, what are you becoming?

21st Century Women

2 October 2018 • Mark Westall

This Frieze Week, Fru Tholstrup and Jane Neal present 21st Century Women, an iconic new group exhibition of British female artists, at Unit London’s new Mayfair gallery.

EXHIBITIONS

Last Chance: FORCE OF NATURE An exhibition of works by international contemporary artists inspired by nature.

7 April 2017 • Mark Westall

Closing this weekend is FORCE OF NATURE. Featuring work by 28 contemporary artists, surveying the influence of nature and its processes on their work.

Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week

26 July 2015 • Tabish Khan

This week’s top 5 features feathered sculptures, NASA photographs, Renaissance masterpieces, lots of tongue and a Stegosaurus.

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Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 119: ‘The Victorian Tendency’

22 July 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent

The art of the Victorian age is not itself much in fashion, but heading back to it as a source to twist does seem to be

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All Visual Arts Present : Viewing Room Private View Tonight Monday 14th October 2013

14 October 2013 • Mark Westall

Following the success of Vanitas: the Transience of Earthly Pleasures and Metamorphosis: the Transformation of Being, presented during Frieze Art Fair in 2010 and 2012 respectively, All Visual Arts is pleased to announce its upcoming fall show entitled Viewing Room. Curated by Joe La Placa and Mark Sanders

EXHIBITIONS

ART STUFF on a train # 14: ‘ Feathers and light’

6 August 2013 • Paul Carey-Kent

Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?

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Preview: Kate MccGwire LURE at All Visual Arts

18 November 2012 • Mark Westall

23rd November – 26th January 2013 All Visual Arts are to present a major solo exhibition from sculptor Kate MccGwire…. Read More

Art Previews

ALL VISUAL ARTS present METAMORPHOSIS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BEING Private view Monday 8th October 2012

8 October 2012 • Mark Westall

Following the success of 2010’s critically acclaimed group exhibition Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures, which attracted over 4,000 visitors during the Frieze Art Fair, All Visual Arts is pleased to announce its upcoming autumn exhibition, Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being.

EXHIBITIONS

SCULPTORS’ DRAWINGS & works on paper at PANGOLIN LONDON Private View: Thurs 30th August 2012

30 August 2012 • Mark Westall

It will include around 200 drawings dating from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day by both established and emerging sculptors.

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Bringing together 30 of the world’s most innovative and exciting artists, the Beck’s Green Box Project shows what can be done with the right kind of support.

12 August 2011 • Mark Westall

? Beck’s Green Box Project – Overview from Beck’s Green Box Project on Vimeo. Bringing together 30 of the world’s… Read More

VIDEO: Beck’s launches Green Box Project

5 July 2011 • Mark Westall

Beck's Green Box Project – Overview from Beck's Green Box Project on Vimeo. The Green Box Project is the world’s… Read More

Alice Anderson and Kate MccGwire BOUND at All Visual Arts Private View Thursday 31st March 2011

30 March 2011 • Mark Westall

BOUND is the inaugural exhibition at All Visual Arts’ (AVA) new space at Kings Cross. Featuring new work by Alice Anderson and Kate MccGwire that tap into some of our deep-seated fears.

EXHIBITIONS

All Visual Arts to Open New Showroom Art Opening Thursday 25th November 2010

25 November 2010 • Mark Westall

All Visual Arts (AVA) will move to a 5,000 square foot warehouse in the heart of King’s Cross. The new… Read More

NEWS

VANITAS: The Transience of earthly pleasures Private View Monday 11th October 2010

11 October 2010 • Mark Westall

Artists in the exhibition will include Nicola Bolla, Jodie Carey, Bertozzi and Casoni, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Wim Delvoye, Aaron van Erp, Hans Peter Feldmann, Paul Fryer, Tom Gallant, Ori Gersht, Rachel Howard, John Isaacs, Reece Jones, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Alastair Mackie, Charles Matton, Kate MccGwire, Polly Morgan, Martin Sexton, Mee Kyung Shin, Dolly Thompsett, Bouke de Vries, Jonathan Wateridge, Tim Noble and Sue Webster and Hugo Wilson.