CEO/Artist Director
Kate Adams is an artist, advocate and activist. She is Director & CEO of Project Art Works and has curated many responsive, collaborative projects with neurominorities, families, care services, artists and galleries.
Kate co-founded Project Art Works in 1997 to explore an expanded concept of art that was and continues to be influenced by Paul Colley, her son, who has complex support needs. Their work embraces personalised studio practice, peer support and award-winning films, art actions, installations and exhibitions. Kate’s practice disrupts preconceptions about what people can and can’t do, who they are and how they live, revealing other ways of being in and seeing the world.
Exhibitions & Residencies
2020 – Joint winners of the Film London Jarman Award
2021 – Shortlisted for the Turner Prize
2022 – Commissioned as one of 15 global ‘lumbung’ collectives to present in documenta fifteen