Kate Turner

Artist and Curator

Cornwall, UK

Kate Turner is an artist and curator, specialising in learning, engagement and social practice. She has over 10 years’ experience collaborating with children, young people, and their communities to co-steer and deliver programmes that break down barriers to the arts, widen participation, and encourage playfulness and creativity in galleries and cultural spaces.

In her artistic practice Kate works alongside her collaborators to explore shifting and disrupting existing hierarchies, social justice and equity, using studio processes and multi-sensory exploration to open space for conversation, reflection, slowness, play and experimentation. She works in socially engaged contexts to create workshops, projects, artwork for public display and live performance.

Her work is informed by professional experience in social care and youth work settings and best practice in access and inclusion, anti-racism, trauma-informed practice and safeguarding young and vulnerable people.

Current roles:

Assistant Curator: Young People’s Programme at Tate St Ives

Young People’s Lead at CAST

Lead Artist, Toddle Tate Early Years Programme at Tate St Ives

Lead Artist, Going Places engagement programme with Penlee House Gallery and Carefree Cornwall, Art Fund

This website is currently in development, for further details and examples of recent work please contact kateturnerprojects@gmail.com