Kate Groobey
Kate Groobey (born 1979) is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France. Early life and education. Biorn in Leeds, Yorkshire, Groobey was educated at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford receiving a BFA degree in 2000. She then studied at the Royal College of Art in London, receiving am MA degree in 2008. Career. Groobey exhibited in "Newspeak: British Art Now Part 2" at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010, the "Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011" at the ICA, in London and Surrreal at König Galerie, Berlin. In 2014, Groobey  was selected as one of a hundred artists for the book "100 Painters of Tomorrow". Groobey was the first woman to win the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize in 2018. Groobey's work has been written about in publications and essays including The Brooklyn Rail, NYC, by Alfred Mac Adam, 2017; The Daiwa Foundation Art Prize catalogue essay by Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Gallery, 2018;