Katherine Nixon
Artist Bio
In 1994 Katherine was awarded the Conor Prize for a figure drawing by the Royal Ulster Academy. Subsequently, a Fine Art Degree Course at University of Ulster Introduced her to sculpture. Her student bronze and aluminium castings were shown in the Royal Hibernian and Royal Ulster Academies.
After graduating in 2001, Katherine joined the new “Warm Glass” movement in Ireland and established the first glass casting artist’s studio in Northern Ireland to use complicated closed moulds. During this period, her work included innovative crystal Hedgepieces and, after collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, a 25 Kilo lead crystal Brainpiece was selected for juried exhibitions and shown at academic level. A Brainpiece is on permanent display in the Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin. Her experimental pate-de-verre work was selected and shown in The Botanical Gardens, Dublin.
Katherine’s first solo show, a collection of small plein air landscapes in oil, was exceptionally well received in 2011 at The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust’s Graffan Gallery, Castle Espie.
In August 2016, her Ballydorn garden and studios was opened to the public in aid of The National Trust through the Ulster Gardens Scheme. It included an exhibition of garden sculpture and painting.
Recently Katherine has experienced health problems, and she has not created art, and is disposing of her glass-making, other materials and equipment.
Recent results for Katherine Nixon
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'MAHONIA & WITCH HAZEL'
SIZE: H 30" x W 22"
Result:
£160
Date: 15/01/2025
'TUSSIE-MUSSIE'
SIZE: H 19" x W 17"
Result:
£90
Date: 22/10/2024