Katie Walker
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Katie Walker is a British furniture designer well-known for combining simple components in her work. Her designs combine the function of the object with a sculptural interpretation of its structure. She works with craft and volume manufacturers and produces specific one-off commissions from a variety of materials.
and Related Product Design
at London
's Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
and went on to study for an MA in Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art
.
Selected commissions include:
Award winning pieces include:
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
, A member of Design Nation and a member of Contemporary Applied Arts
Education
She first studied FurnitureFurniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
and Related Product Design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
at London
London
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's Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Ravensbourne is a university sector college innovating in digital media and design, with a vocationally focused portfolio of courses, spanning fashion, television and broadcasting, interactive product design, architecture and environment design, graphic design, animation, moving image, music...
and went on to study for an MA in Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
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Notable work
As a furniture designer and business person (she runs Katie Walker Furniture), Katie designs pieces for batch production and for one-off commissions. Most of these pieces are made by Katie Walker Furniture.Selected commissions include:
- 1993 Public seating for National Heritage, Bushy ParkBushy Park- External links :***...
, TeddingtonTeddingtonTeddington is a suburban area in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London, on the north bank of the River Thames, between Hampton Wick and Twickenham. It stretches inland from the River Thames to Bushy Park... - 1994 Boardroom, reception and terrace furniture for Parallel Media Group plc, London
- 1996 Boardroom table and chairs, Prince's Trust headquarters, Regents Park
- 1998 Seating for WalsallWalsallWalsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.Walsall is the administrative...
Leather Museum - 2000 Reception area seating, South East Arts, Tunbridge Wells
- 2000 Seating for Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
- 2000,02 Public seating for Allied London Properties Ltd. The Swan shopping Centre, LeatherheadLeatherheadLeatherhead is a town in the County of Surrey, England, on the River Mole, part of Mole Valley district. It is thought to be of Saxon origin...
and St. Christophers Place, St. Albans - 2002 Seating for HoveHoveHove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast...
Museum & Art Gallery - 2002 Altar, lectern and candlesticks for St. Nicholas' church, ArundelArundelArundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...
- 2004 Reception desk and retail display for FarnhamFarnhamFarnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley. The town is situated some 42 miles southwest of London in the extreme west of Surrey, adjacent to the border with Hampshire...
Crafts Study CentreCrafts Study CentreEngland’s museum of modern crafts, the Crafts Study Centre is located next to the entrance of the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham and its Foyer/James Hockey Galleries....
Award winning pieces include:
- Ribbon Rocking Chair (winner of the Wesley Barrell Craft Award and both the Wood Awards Furniture and Innovation Awards in 2006)
- Weight and See Mirror (the original of which toured the UK with the "One-Tree" Exhibition)
- Gallery seating (holder of Guildmark 250 from the Worshipful Company of Furniture MakersWorshipful Company of Furniture MakersThe Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation was formed in 1951, and the City granted it Livery status in 1963. The Company generally promotes the trade by awarding scholarship to students of the craft.The Company ranks...
) - Eyers Dining Group - a private commission
Exhibitions
- 1993 'Walk don't Walk', street furniture exhibition at LiverpoolLiverpoolLiverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
s' 'Visionfest' - 1994 The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Oxted, Surrey
- 1995, 96, 98 'Decorative Arts Today', BonhamsBonhamsBonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. It has 700 employees....
, London - 1995,96,97,98,99,01 '100% Design', London
- 1996,97 The Garden Gallery, Stockbridge, HampshireStockbridge, HampshireStockbridge is a small town and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It has an acreage of and a population of little under 600 people according to the 2001 census in Hampshire, England. It lies on the River Test, in the Test Valley district and renowned for trout fishing. The A30 road goes through...
- 1996 'Living at Belsay', BelsayBelsayBelsay is a village in Northumberland, England. It is situated about to the north-west of Ponteland on the A696 which links the village with Newcastle upon Tyne and Jedburgh....
Hall, Northumberland - 1996, 97 'Design Resolutions', Royal Festival HallRoyal Festival HallThe Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...
, London - 1997 'The Garden', The Harley Gallery, WorksopWorksopWorksop is the largest town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. It is about east-south-east of the City of Sheffield and its population is estimated to be 39,800...
- 1997, 2002, 2004 The Grace Barrand Design Centre, Nutfield, SurreySurreySurrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
- 1997 'Almost Edible' Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
- 1998 The Hill House, HelensburghHelensburghHelensburgh is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and the eastern shore of the entrance to the Gareloch....
, ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... - 1998 'Katie Walker Furniture' Hove Museum & Art Gallery
- 1999, 01 A Celebration of Craftsmanship, CheltenhamCheltenhamCheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
- 2001/ 2002 'onetree': Royal Botanic Garden EdinburghRoyal Botanic Garden EdinburghThe Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Originally founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland — Edinburgh,...
; Tenants Hall, Tatton ParkTatton ParkTatton Park is a historic estate in Cheshire, England, to the north of the town of Knutsford. It contains a mansion, Tatton Hall, a manor house dating from medieval times, Tatton Old Hall, gardens, a farm and a deer park of . It is a popular visitor attraction and hosts over 100 events annually...
, Cheshire; BristolBristolBristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
City Art Gallery; the Geffrye MuseumGeffrye MuseumFounded in 1914, the Geffrye Museum is a museum specialising in the history of the English domestic interior. Named after Sir Robert Geffrye, former Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Ironmongers' Company, it is located on Kingsland Road in London...
, London - 2002 Chelsea Crafts Fair, London
- 2004 'New Member Focus', Contemporary Applied Arts, London
- 2006 Collect
- 2006 Origin
Personal life
Katie is married and has two daughters. She lives in West Sussex, UK.She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Royal Society of Arts
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...
, A member of Design Nation and a member of Contemporary Applied Arts