Kate Daudy

Kate Daudy is a British conceptual artist internationally recognised for her public interventions and large-scale outdoor sculpture., who works  across a wide variety of media.

Inventive, complex, and celebratory, Daudy’s projects involve collaborations with people in all fields: science, digital technology, mathematics, poetry, music, a perfume house, the ancient world, and farming. This has led to museum exhibitions, citywide takeovers in Palermo, Spain, Manchester, London and New York City. Her works, a lot of them ephemeral, are juxtaposed in locations ranging from Saint Paul’s Cathedral and the Glastonbury Music Festival bus stops and writings on the back of a sheep.

Throughout their long standing collaboration, Daudy and Nobel Prize winning physicist Kostya Novoselov have produced experimental work that has been exhibited throughout the world, and have written a book, Wonderchaos, which explores the concepts of randomness and chaos through art. Kate will be spending time at NASA’s Cape Canaveral in June 2025.

Her interest in the poet Federico Garcia Lorca led to an exhibition in Granada and a commission by the Lorca Centre that includes a concrete poetry project, in which Daudy will read poems to honey inside a weightless vacuum box.

Upcoming projects include a retrospective exhibition at the Sorbonne in February 2025 and screenings of her film work at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

At the Institute, Daudy will be working on "Telling the Bees," a project exploring, through an historical study of humankind’s symbiotic relationship with his environment and with bees in particular, the way we communicate with one another. Through this she will shed light on questions of faith, collective memory and the consequences of our personal choices.