About The Artist

Katie Marland is an artist and illustrator based between Bristol and London, where she recently completed the postgraduate Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School. She achieved a first class with honours in Illustration from UAL in 2019.

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Her practice is research-led, working from esoteric texts, medical history, museum collections and from observation, with a keen focus on folklore and the eerie. Her work falls into the category of dark art or horror art, but also includes classical studies and careful observation of nature.

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She has worked with Penguin Random House, University of Wales Press, Little Toller Books, the Green Letters journal, the London Postal Museum, and on private commission. 

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For information regarding exhibiting, projects or commissions, please see the contact page. Any ideas are welcome, and commission requests are always considered.

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Publications:

The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) Delyth Badder and Mark Norman, University of Wales Press - All illustrations

Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago (2022) Pippa Marland, Rowman and Littlefield - Illustration

Birdsong in a Time of Silence (2021) Steven Lovatt, Penguin Books - All illustrations

The Wren: A Biography (2018) Steven Moss, Penguin Books - Frontispiece illustration

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Exhibitions:

Oil & Oak: Arising (24th January - 2nd April 2023)

Folklore Library and Archive: Folklore (10th October - 16th December 2022)

Bristol City Hall, The Vestibules: Folklore (13th - 16th September 2022)

Salisbury Arts Centre: Wiltshire Creative Summer Open (12th July - 3rd September 2022)

The Royal Drawing School: Works on Paper (8th - 14th April 2022)

SPACE Studios: RDS Open Studios (6th - 19th April 2022)

Christie's: The Best of the Drawing Year (March 2022)