Emotional experience and personal identity form the foundation of Katherine St Angelo’s practice. Her work considers the tension between inner stillness and personal turbulence, recognising that calm and unrest often coexist within the same psychological landscape. Drawing inspiration from shifting emotional states and the complexities of human interactions and relationships, she seeks to make visible the layered, and at times contradictory, conditions that inform lived experience. Through painting and mixed media, these internal dynamics are translated into immersive visual spaces.

Central to her process is the intuitive construction of surface. St Angelo develops her compositions through layered applications of paint, subtle tonal shifts, and gestural mark-making. Colour plays a vital role within this dialogue; nuanced variations and restrained palettes are carefully calibrated to evoke atmosphere, mood, and psychological depth. Materials are applied, obscured, and reworked in cycles that mirror disruption and resolution. The canvas becomes an active space of listening, where control and release exist in constant negotiation.

Soft, meditative passages are set against areas of movement and density, reflecting both contemplation and emotional unrest. By revealing traces of process and resisting polished finality, St Angelo embraces vulnerability as a fundamental aspect of growth. Her intention is not to prescribe interpretation but to create an environment in which viewers can encounter their own emotional complexities and reflect on their evolving circumstances.

Born in Miami, Katherine St Angelo spent her early years in the Washington metropolitan area before making her home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she now lives and works. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine and Applied Textiles from the Belfast School of Art. Her paintings are held in private collections nationally and internationally.

Residencies

In 2019 she was awarded an artist’s residency in Gdansk, Poland where she produced and exhibited a new body of work.

Member of

Visual Artist Ireland

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Creative Exchange Artist Studios

Awards

2021 ACNI Individuals Emergency Resilience Programme 1

Education

2003 BA (Hons) degree Fine and Applied Textiles, University of Ulster Belfast

Solo Exhibitions

2024 ‘Restoration’, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland

2020 ‘Defining the Elements’, EastSide Arts Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 ‘Fuse’, Members Exhibition, Creative Exchange Studios, Portview Trade Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland

2025 ‘Group Show’, Gallery 545, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland

2024 ‘Block’, Members Exhibition, Creative Exchange Studios, Portview Trade Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland

2023 ‘Group Show’, Gallery 545, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland

2023 ‘5²’, Group Show, Creative Exchange, QSS Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

2021 ‘Group Show’, The Harrison Hotel, Gallery 545, Belfast, N. Ireland

2021 ‘Painted Perspectives’, two persons show, Gallery 545, Belfast, N. Ireland

2020 ‘Group Show Online’, Gallery 545, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland

2020 ‘Group Exhibition Online’, Gallery 545, Belfast, N. Ireland

2020 ‘Group Exhibition’, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

2020 ‘Which Way Next’, EastSide Arts Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

2019 ‘Gdansk Group Show’, Dom Aktora Gallery, Gdansk, Poland

2019 ‘Members’ Exhibition, Portview Trade Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland

2018 ‘Winter Show’, Framewerk’s Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

2018 ‘Winter Show’, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

2017 ‘NIEG Show’, The Curve Gallery, Bangor, N. Ireland

2017 ‘The Tutors’, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland

2016 ‘Outside and Between’, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, N. Ireland

2015 ‘Members’ Exhibition, Studio 11, Belfast, N. Ireland

2014 ‘Transformation’, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland

2014 ‘Summer Show’, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

2014 ‘NIEG Summer Show’, Carrickfergus Museum, Carrickfergus, N. Ireland

2011 ‘The Lost Gallery: John Garstang and the Discovery of the Hittite World’, The World Museum Liverpool

Art Fairs

2025 Art Source with Canvas Gallery, RDS, Dublin

2023 Edinburgh Art Fair with Gallery 545, 02 Academy, Edinburgh