Kat Hudson, Fine Artist. London, England.

Selected Work

Community Garden
Jonny Slut
Who Knows
Untitled 2020
Saint Sebastian
Babes

Selected Writing

Collaborative Production

Public House

Rebel Dykes

The Horse Hospital

Lesley

Gender Fvcker

Femmetopia

Light After Dark

Fat Lip

Retro Gallery

Bio / CV
Contact

Bio / CV

By Darren Black

Katherine ‘Kat’ Hudson is a fine artist and writer with a professional background in libraries, archives and nightlife. Kat has curated notable community-focused exhibitions and nightlife events and lives and works in London, England.

Born in Oxford, England, Kat was raised in Oxfordshire with family ties to London, UK and Pennsylvania and California, USA. Consistently London-based since 2015, her work has developed through years of collaborative production and private study.

Kat has been commissioned to write critically and speak publicly on the subject of contemporary art and culture. Kat has spoken publicly at Tate Modern and Oxford University and her writing has been published in notable publications including Frieze magazine.

“Freedom is a many feathered thing, and there are people with harder red lines and softer pink lines when it comes to what will achieve it. Kat Hudson, artist, curator and founder of some of London’s most iconic nightlife movements, is all about looking at the validity of both of those lines.”

Tom Rasmussen for LOVE Magazine

Kat’s work explores individual multiplicity, collaborative creation and community wellbeing across visual, written and curatorial practice. Her most critically acclaimed work to date has centred on the work of her peers and, consequently, contemporary London counterculture. These projects engage with empowering cultural narratives and present them in accessible formats, through marrying archival materials with creative works and new commissions.

Art Monthly says The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show, “rises like a leather gloved and studded fist from the rubble of a transgressive history”. Artist, Tia Simon Campbell writes that Lesley, “bridges the gaps between spaces that wouldn’t otherwise be connected while organically encouraging collaboration and unity” whilst designer, Genn Nomie professes, “I really believe in the work Kat Hudson puts into fostering a community by creating print/exhibition environments that nurture the artistic and intellectual expression of voices within UK centred queer and WLW communities.”

Most recently, Kat has been taking inspiration from our natural world in her personal practice, whilst focussing on her public library work in East London.

For further context and biographical background see, London Calling: An Interview with Kat Hudson.

The Horse Hospital 2020

Selected Work, Writing, Appearances, Exhibitions and Press

Libraries and Archives

  • London Public Library Service (location not publicly disclosed)
    – Public Library and Education Services: August 2023 – Present
    – Local History Library and Archives, fixed-term secondment: April 2025 – April 2026
  • Museum of Transology, Bishopsgate Institude, London EC2M, Archive Volunteer: 2023 –
  • Archival research, archive display curation, archive collection and adjacent funding and administration in a freelance capacity through creative work (listed below): August 2017 – Present

Journalism

Speaking Appearances

Exhibiting Shows

  • The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show: Space Station Sixty-Five London – 2021
  • GESTURA: The Koppel Project, London W1F – 2019
  • Lesley Launch Exhibition: The Horse Hospital, London WC1N – 2019
  • Arrows of Desire: The Horse Hospital, London WC1N – 2019
  • Creep Show III: Retro Gallery, London WC2N – 2018
  • Femmi-Errect Witch Bitch: Dalston Superstore, London E8 – 2018
  • Femme: Femmetopia Festival, London N16 – 2018
  • TAT: 177 Hoxton, London – 2018
  • We Wish You a Sassy XXXmas: Sassify Zine in collaboration with Sassitude, London N16 – 2017
  • Coming Out for LGBT: Stonewall, YouTube HQ, London N1C – 2017
  • Creep Show II: Retro Gallery, London WC2N – 2017
  • Light After Dark: National Trust, Sutton House, London E9 – 2017
  • A Fleur de Peau: Retro Gallery London WC2N – 2017
  • Fat Lip (Art, Performance, Protest): VFD, London N16 – 2017
  • Creep Show: Retro Gallery, London WC2N – 2016
  • Living Dead: Retro Gallery, London WC2N – 2016
  • Fountayne Road Open Studios: Fountayne Road, London N15 – 2015
  • Demons: Viva Dalston, N16 – 2015

Creative Production and Administration

Publications: Featured In

DJ Appearances

  • DJ Residency at Retro Bar London
  • Silverleaf x William Grant & Sons UK PRIDE Vol II – Silverleaf Bar, Pan Pacific Hotel London
  • Silverleaf x Couch Safe Spaces – Silverleaf Bar, Pan Pacific Hotel London
  • Butch Please – The Royal Vauxhall Tavern
  • Guest DJ at Pink Glove Disco – Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
  • 10 Magazine x Tom of Finland Exhibition Launch Party – The London Edition Hotel
  • LOUD WOMEN Festival – 229 Great Portland Street
  • Rebel Dykes Exhibition Party – The Cock Tavern
  • DJ Residency at Bar Wotever – The Royal Vauxhall Tavern
  • Fringe Queer Film & Arts Festival
  • Special Guest DJ at DIY Thursdays
  • Polyester Magazine Halloween Party sponsored by Polaroid – The Curtain Hotel
  • Lesley Magazine Parties & Events
  • Amelia Abraham ‘Queer Intentions’ Book Launch – The Glory London
  • Femmme Fraiche Guest DJ – Dalston Superstore
  • Female Trouble Guest DJ – Dalston Superstore
  • Femmi Errect Guest DJ – Dalston Superstore
  • Thinking Flesh First Friday – Centrala Space Birmingham
  • Resident DJ & Promoter at Gender Fvcker Non-Binary Drag Competition
  • Co-Founder Resident DJ & Promoter at Femmetopia Club Night – Vogue Fabrics Dalston
  • Private Parties & Events

Find examples of Kat’s DJ work on Mixcloud