Kate Gilman Brundrett is an artist, visual arts producer and adviser.
She graduated from Camberwell Arts College in 1998 specialising in graphics and sculpture before working for a number of years at The Independent newspaper as a graphic artist. Kate completed an MA in Art's Management at City University and also helped to set up AREA10 project space with artists Dimitri Launder, Emily Druif and Anila Ladwa.
In 2002 Kate returned to Cumbria and started to look at ways to improve the infrastructure for the arts in the county. She met Steve Messam from fold gallery and together won an award to pilot a network and a county wide arts festival which led to the beginnings of The Cumbria Network and FRED in 2004.
During this time Kate also curated a number of art spaces including Greystones Gallery, Inside Out at Bluebell, and an Arts&Business award winning experimental season at The Village Bakery in collaboration with Lowood Arts.
In 2006 Kate was invited to 11 Downing St to input on the nation's Creative Industries and since has consulted on numerous strategies and regeneration projects including Lowther Castle and Gardens. She organised Why Public Art? and Art & the Built Environment symposiums with Art Gene and more recently developed the Fly Eric series with Celia Cross and LAN working with Art Gene, Castlefield and Storey Galleries.
During 2007/8 Kate worked with small businesses, creative entrepreneurs and start ups through Voluntary Action Cumbria (now ACT) and A4E Enterprise. As a SFEDI qualified adviser she now works on a freelance basis advising businesses in the creative sector, and as an associate of Christian Dodd.
Whilst 2009 saw a return to practice based work, the meeting points between art practice and business continued to be a point of interest, a dialogue that was extended through her role as Editor for a-n's Jobs&Opps site.
2010 saw a lively project in Best in Eden, working with Eden Arts in Cumbria, plus a new lifelong project in Small Person born at the end of the year.
She graduated from Camberwell Arts College in 1998 specialising in graphics and sculpture before working for a number of years at The Independent newspaper as a graphic artist. Kate completed an MA in Art's Management at City University and also helped to set up AREA10 project space with artists Dimitri Launder, Emily Druif and Anila Ladwa.
In 2002 Kate returned to Cumbria and started to look at ways to improve the infrastructure for the arts in the county. She met Steve Messam from fold gallery and together won an award to pilot a network and a county wide arts festival which led to the beginnings of The Cumbria Network and FRED in 2004.
During this time Kate also curated a number of art spaces including Greystones Gallery, Inside Out at Bluebell, and an Arts&Business award winning experimental season at The Village Bakery in collaboration with Lowood Arts.
In 2006 Kate was invited to 11 Downing St to input on the nation's Creative Industries and since has consulted on numerous strategies and regeneration projects including Lowther Castle and Gardens. She organised Why Public Art? and Art & the Built Environment symposiums with Art Gene and more recently developed the Fly Eric series with Celia Cross and LAN working with Art Gene, Castlefield and Storey Galleries.
During 2007/8 Kate worked with small businesses, creative entrepreneurs and start ups through Voluntary Action Cumbria (now ACT) and A4E Enterprise. As a SFEDI qualified adviser she now works on a freelance basis advising businesses in the creative sector, and as an associate of Christian Dodd.
Whilst 2009 saw a return to practice based work, the meeting points between art practice and business continued to be a point of interest, a dialogue that was extended through her role as Editor for a-n's Jobs&Opps site.
2010 saw a lively project in Best in Eden, working with Eden Arts in Cumbria, plus a new lifelong project in Small Person born at the end of the year.