Katie Marland is a fine artist and illustrator based in Bristol. She is currently undertaking a practice-based research project at the University of Leeds studying the British folklore of the Black Dog through drawing and print.

 

Her practice takes inspiration from esoteric texts, medical history, museum collections and from observation, with a keen focus on folklore and the eerie. 

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

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For information regarding exhibiting, projects or commissions, please see the contact page. 

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PhD University of Leeds - 2023 to present

Royal Drawing School Drawing Year 2021

Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) Illustration 2019

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Exhibitions:

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The Bell Gallery: The Black Shuck Exhibition. (31st July - 16th August 2025)

The Crypt Gallery: The Black Dog: Crypt Residency (26th - 30th November 2024)

Fringe Arts Bath: Bath Open Art Prize (10th - 26th October 2024)

Fresh Salad: Symbiosis (12th September - 16th September 2024)

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)

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Publications as artist:

Cover and illustrations: Love the Albatross (2024) Deborah Harvey, Indigo Dreams Publishing.

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

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

Full illustrations: Birdsong in a Time of Silence (2021) Steven Lovatt, Penguin Books.

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

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Papers:

Print is (Un)Dead, A brief history of print and the eerie. Centre for the Comparative History of Print, Leeds.

Enchantment, the Sensory and the Eerie: Ethel Rudkin and the Black Dog. Lincolnshire Folk Tales Symposium, 11th April 2025.

Three Graves Near Glenade Lake: The Legend of the Dobhar-Chú. Folklore Society Legendary Weekend, 31st August - 1st September 2024.