Kate Trafeli is an American-British visual artist, curator, and arts educator based in London, UK. She maintains an active studio practice at Collage Arts, a long-established creative hub in North London. On this site, you can explore available works, an interview and video of Kate in her studio, and of her large-scale public commission in London.
Kate’s paintings and sculptural works use colour synesthesia, expressive composition, and gestural brushwork to evoke emotion and narrative. Her work draws from personal memory, literature, music, magical realism, and both natural and built environments. Through abstraction and mark-making, she explores the emotional landscape of lived experience.
In the United Kingdom, Kate is currently represented by WAW Gallery and SOTA. She has exhibited widely, including solo showcases with After Nyne Gallery (Holland Park), The Union Club (Soho), J/M Gallery (Notting Hill), and has shown work at major curated art fairs such as the London Art Fair, StART at Saatchi Gallery, the Affordable Art Fair (London and New York), and The Other Art Fair (London, Los Angeles, New York).
Kate welcomes studio visits by appointment and is open to commissions and collaborations. For news on current shows and projects, please visit the News page or follow her on Instagram.
In addition to her studio practice, Kate is a guest tutor at Coombe Farm Studios in Devon, where she leads a five-day immersive abstract painting course twice a year for adult learners. She is also involved in collaborative and curatorial projects. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-founded Katmapped, an online exhibition platform that showcased thematic, multidisciplinary work by international artists. The project, developed as a social enterprise initiative, remains archived here.
Kate holds a B.A. in Fine Art and English Literature from Gonzaga University and has completed further graduate study in law and philosophy in the United States. She is open to working with galleries, curators, consultants, and arts organisations across the UK, Europe, and the US.
For inquiries or further information, please contact Kate.
Thank you for your interest in her work.