Katie Shannon

By CACT on November 7, 2023 in Previous Recipients

Katie Shannon (b. Glasgow, UK) is an artist based between Glasgow and London, working across drawing, installation, printmaking, textiles, writing, performance, curation, music and collaborative formats. Her practice centres on the event as medium, exploring temporalities, collective intimacy, and states of energetic unrest. Rooted in a socialist, feminist, and materially led approach, her work navigates themes of class, sociality, and counter-culture, using repurposed or ‘low’ materials, laborious processes, and printmaking as means of dissemination to propose alternative economies of making and meaning. Her research investigates the time codes of place as they relate to bodies, peripheral music scenes, overlooked narratives, and suspended notions of time, particularly elongated adolescence and perceived “ends”, charting ways to reposition what has been marginalised or missed. She is the co-founder of TLC23 with Keira Fox, a collaborative platform that works with performance, curation, music, and scenography to explore mania, collective panic and filmic female archetypes in periods of instability and precarity.

Shannon was the subject of solo shows at Celine Gallery, Glasgow (2024); Kunsthalle.Ost, Leipzig (2022); Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow (2019); The Loftus Hall, Berlin (2019); and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2019). Group shows include Corpus Gallery, Cambridge (2025 forthcoming); Gnossienne Gallery, London (2025 forthcoming); Existers, London (2025); Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2025); Carousel IV, London (2025); After 8 Books, Paris / Borgenheim Rosenhoff, Oslo (2025); Okasenjatu11, Helsinki (2024); The Horse Hospital, London (2024) curated by Tai Shani and Anne Duffau; The Artist Room, London (2024); South Parade, London (2024); NEVEN, London (2024); The Horse Hospital, London (2023); Original Projects, Great Yarmouth (2023); French Place, London (2022); CCA, Glasgow (2022); Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2020). Selected performances and TLC23 actions include Somerset House, London (forthcoming 2025); TINA, London (2024); Dortmund Kunstverein, Dortmund (2024); Cafe Oto, London (2023); The Horse Hospital, London (2023); Le Bourgeois, London (2023); Sonica Festival, Tramway, Glasgow (2022); 103 Skopje Radio, North Macedonia (2022); Radio Vilnius, Lithuania (2022); The 343, Belfast (2019); Platform, Glasgow (2019); Riva Tunnel, Monaco (2019); Late at Tate Britain, London (2019); Kunstraum, London (2019); CCA, Glasgow (2018); Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2018). Shannon co-runs record labels and gig series, including Domestic Exile, So Low, and Rebi, and has a radio residency on NTS Radio. Shannon graduated with an MFA Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2024.

Instagram: @katieshannon23
Website: https://linktr.ee/katieshannon

screeprint on blue back poster, 841 x 1189mm, Le Bourgeois, Catford, 2023