"If Not Now, When?" YSP, 2017. Photo by Jonty Wilde.
Kate Daudy is a British conceptual artist internationally recognised for her public interventions and large-scale outdoor sculpture. Working across a wide variety of media, she lives and works in London. Daudy’s work deepens our understanding of identity and belonging, at a time when those concepts are both in flux and deeply consequential.
Inventive, complex, and celebratory, Daudy’s work enfolds collaboration with people in all fields: science, digital technology, mathematics, poetry, music, a perfume house, the ancient world and farming. Her personal curiosity leads to thought-provoking and multi-disciplinary work that sheds light on what it means to be a human being. This has led to museum exhibitions, citywide takeovers in Spain. Manchester, London and NYC. Her works, a lot of them ephemeral, are juxtaposed in locations ranging from Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Glastonbury Music Festival to pasted on a bus stop or written on the side of a sheep.
Daudy’s longstanding art + science collaboration with Nobel Prize winning physicist Kostya Novoselov has led to experimental work that has been exhibited throughout the world. Their book “Wonderchaos” exploring the concepts of randomness and chaos through art will be published in October 2024.
Her interest in the poet Federico Garcia Lorca led to a major show in Granada, following on from which a body of work has been commissioned by the Lorca Centre, including a concrete poetry project, in which she will read poems to honey inside a weightless vacuum box. She will be spending time at NASA’s Cape Canaveral in June 2025.
Upcoming projects will include a retrospective exhibition at the Sorbonne in February 2025, accompanied by a publication and 4 part lecture series exploring themes in her work. Her work in the medium of film will be screened at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.
At the Institute, Daudy will be working on "Telling the Bees," a project exploring the way we communicate with one another through an historical study of humankind’s symbiotic relationship with his environment, and bees in particular. Through this she will shed light on questions of faith, collective memory and the consequences of our personal choices.