Katherine Masters

Katherine Masters (b. 1979 London, United Kingdom) lives and works in Lisbon and is a graduate of Goldsmiths University (Bachelor of Arts in Design) and Central Saint Martins (Postgraduate Certificate in Photography). After graduating Katherine forged a successful career in publishing, working for publishing houses such as Condé Nast, Fairchild Publications, The National Magazine Company and Cedar Communications. This was an experience that would later inform her artistic practice.

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions; these include The Storyteller and the Sea, at the Farol Museu de Santa Marta and Museu do Mar, Lisbon (2011) and Flat White, at The Flat White, London (2014).

Group exhibitions include: Aid Contra Prose, shown in both Gallery 2902, Singapore (2004) and Oxo Tower, London (2003). Other group exhibitions include Exhibition of Artworks in support of the Ukraine, Galeria de Arte Estoril, Lisbon (2022) and Arte na Freguesia, Galeria de Arte Cascais, Lisbon (2023). More recently I’ll Be Here When You’re Gone, at The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland (2023) and a second year exhibiting with Arte na Freguesia, Galeria de Arte Cascais, Lisbon (2024).

Katherine’s work focuses primarily on the nat...

UCL Slade (short courses in colour theory, drawing and painting 2022-2023)

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts
(Postgraduate Certificate in Photography 2010 - 2011)

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (ABC Award, Photojournalism)

Goldsmiths, University of London
(Bachelor of Arts Degree, Design 1999 - 2003)

University for the Creative Arts
(BTEC Diploma in Art and Foundation Studies 1998 - 1999)

2024

Arte na Freguesia Group Exhibition. Cascais Gallery.

2023

I’ll be here when you’re gone

International Landscape Photography Group Exhibition
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Glasgow, Scotland.


2023

By the Bay

Arte na Freguesia Group Exhibition

Galeria de Arte Cascais. Collaborative work proceeds were donated to Cercica. Cascais, Portugal.

2022

There She Was

Group exhibition and auction of artworks in support of Ukranian refugees

Galeria de Arte Estoril. Event sponsored by Junta de Freguesia de Cascais & Estoril, Camara Municipal de Cascais, Santa Casa de Misericórdia and Fundação Dom Luis. Estoril, Portugal.

2014

Museu do Mar Solo exhibit, ‘The Storyteller & the Sea.’ Cascais, Portugal.

Flat White Soho Solo exhibit, ‘Flat White’ at The Flat White Café. London, UK.


2011

Santa Marta Lighthouse (Museu Farol de Santa Marta) Solo exhibit of ‘The Storyteller & the Sea.’ Sponsored by the Cascais Council, Cascais.

British Council Lisbon Solo exhibit of ‘The Storyteller & the Sea’ at the British Council. Lisbon, Portugal.


2010

Central Saint Martins exhibit ‘The Storyteller & the Sea’, individual sponsorship by Cascais Council & The British Council. London, UK.

Gallery 2902 ‘Pre-text’ group exhibit...