Katy Stubbs (b. 1992) is a South-African British artist who lives and works in London. Stubbs studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York and has completed residencies at Palazzo Monti, Italy, 2021 and ALMA ZEVI, Venice in 2019. She attended the Anderson Ranch residency, Aspen, USA, in February 2025.
Katy predominantly works in ceramics, using the hand-made forms as a canvas for her interest in the tradition of storytelling. “I love the idea of little scenes or still lifes that are of things that could be easily ignored. But by making them from clay they become special." The socio-historical associations that this medium has, in particular with the Greek tradition, are a constant source of inspiration.
Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, at Lyndsey Ingram, London (2023); ‘Katy Stubbs: Price Choppers’, ALMA ZEVI, London (2020); Recent group exhibitions include; ‘Narratives in Clay,’ at London’s County Hall (2025); ‘Life is Still Life’, Woman’s Art Collection, at the Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (2023); ‘Welcome To My World: ceramics with narrative’, The Burton at Bideford, Bideford (2022); ‘New Nature’, Paterson Zevi, London (2022). Stubbs participated in the British Ceramics Biennial (2021), and the Great Women Artists residency and exhibition, curated by Katy Hessel at Palazzo Monti (2021). Her work is in the Zabludowicz Collection and the Katrin Bellinger Collection.