Kathryn Armitage (b. 1994) is a London-based artist from North Yorkshire. Currently undertaking her MA in painting at the Royal College Of Art (2023/2024), she also has a BA in painting from Camberwell College Of Art (2016) & a background working as a freelance food photographer.

Kathryn’s artistic practice explores appetite, specifically through a feminist lens. Manipulating imagery found online, her large-scale, unruly depictions of women eating consider what it means to be a hungry woman with an appetite. Applying paint in an emotionally charged, bodily manner - with thick, gestural marks and vivid, exaggerated tones - her approach to figurative painting is almost abstract in nature, distorting and expanding reality.

Utilising heavily cropped compositions, Kathryn’s paintings point to the heavy scrutiny of women within society, and the almost voyeuristic way in which we now scroll, zoom & obsessively consume intimate parts of people’s lives online.

Exhibitions

Body Songs, Fitzrovia Gallery (2024)

If You’re Lost, This Is Where You Can Be Found, Safehouse 1 (2023)

Camberwell BA Degree Show (2016)

Unit, Dalston Grove (2015)

An Arranged Marriage, Lewisham Arthouse (2015)

Education

MA Painting - Royal College of Art (2023-present)

​BA Fine Art Painting - Camberwell College of Art (2016)