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Kathryn
Sainsbury-
Wilkes
Kathryn Sainsbury-Wilkes is a photographer and researcher based in West Cornwall, with an educational background focussed on Natural History and Darkroom Photography. Her work is rooted in the specificity of place, providing central themes of Cornish history, folklore and landscape. Projects are often long term and adaptive, taking form in a variety of outputs from photographs, moving image, community projects, educational talks and installations. Her work has been exhibited as far as New York and around the UK, with a current focus on Cornish Fogous and their role in the historical ritual landscape.
The talks and projects featured on this website are available for exhibiting/
delivering, if you would like to host an event please get in contact using the email below:
kathrynsw@btinternet.com
I currently work at Falmouth University's Institute of Photography. For anything relating to my position there, please contact:
kathryn.sainsburywilkes@falmouth.ac.uk
Thank you
Awards
Winner - Honey Feet, Border Bodies:
- Best First Time Director, International Music Video Awards
- Special Mention, UK Music Video Festival - 2024
Winner and Official Selection - Kelp!
multiple including:
- Big Syn Film Festival: Best UK Short
- Wild and Scenic Film Festival: Jury Award
- LA Short Film Award: Best Documentary
Production Coordinator and Researcher
- 2023/4
Runner up - The River Fowey, from Source to Sea: Wild Film Fest 'Wildlife on Your Doorstep': Best Short Film - 2020
Highly Commended - 'Love Nature' Exhibition, Heligan Gardens - 2019
Shortlisted - Most Inspiring Individual in the UK, the National Centre for Diversity - 2017
Featured Work
2025 - Fogou, Part Two, (Talk and project launch)
______Gwithi An Pystri Museum, Cornwall
2025 - A Cornish Lens, 'Roots and Routes' exhibition
_____intoBodmin, Cornwall
2025 - Fogou, (Talk), Something Moves Festival, Sussex
Basket of Light Festival, Cornwall
2024 - Fogou, (Talk), Gwithi An Pystri Museum, Cornwall
2024 - Sapphic/Cryptid/Other, Queer Beach Exhibition, ______SEAS Brighton
2024 - Conscious Collective, Illumination Exhibition, ______Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2024 - Border Bodies, UK Music Video Awards, London
2022 - If Trees Had Eyes, Graduation Exhibition, Falmouth ______University
2021 - Lincoln Road North (Sculpture Series), ‘Home’ ______Exhibition, Earl A Morgan Library, New York
2020 - If Trees Had Eyes, Residency, Trebah Garden, ______Cornwall
2020 - The River Fowey, from Source to Sea, Wild Film Fest
2019 - Lichen Tree, 'Love Nature' Exhibition, Heligan ______Gardens
2015 - Single Image, 'Year of the Light' Exhibition, Tate ______Modern
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