Awards for writing and text based art:

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Arthur C. Clarke Flash Fiction Award shortlist

Robert Graves Poetry Prize shortlist

Guardian/Modern Painters Award for Writing on Art

Scotland Year of the Artist Award

Yorkhill Hospital Award for Multimedia Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire

Wellcome Foundation Sciart Shortlist: Multimedia Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire

Words and Women IV

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2024-26: Writer and Artist in Residence, Western Baths

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2023-24: UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature Virtual Writer in Residence, Australian Tapestry Workshop

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Publications: 

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2026: The Happy Prince and the Quantum of Uncertainty, in 'Stories from the Quantum Universe', Arthur C Clarke Flash Fiction Award, Science Gallery, Kings College, London

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2025: Artmag Review: Everything Flows

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Webby and Greyking, Seedbed Press, Glasgow, commissioned by Festival Stoke.

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2024-25: The Western, words from the archive, Western Baths, Glasgow.

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2024: Weaving Witnesses, South and North, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne.

 

Weaving More Witnesses, South, North, East and West, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne.

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Gathering Threads, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne.

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2023: Scottish Review & Artmag The Weight of Air and Memory​

 

Scottish Review Boswell Book Festival

 

Scottish Review Resurrection in the town of Newbury​

 

Journal of the Tblisi Architecture Biennial Swimming in the black sea, essay on Gaelic concept of 'dúthchas' in relation to national identities, Ed. Otar Nemsadze.

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2022: Scottish Review (24.8.22)The Physics of Light + Barbara Hepworth & Martin Creed​

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Scottish Review (26.10.22) Brownian Motion and John Patrick Byrne

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2021: Tell, Tongue, the Mystery, Words during Lockdown

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2019: Berwick Film & New Media Arts Festival Review, LUX.

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Review: Staple Myth  

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2017: 'Komodo Dragon' in Words and Women IV (Norwich: Unthank Books), eds. Bryan, L & Greenwood, B. 153-161.

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2016: Uainead|Degree of Greenness, Tramway. Commissioned by National Theatre of Scotland & Gaelic Arts, Glasgow Life. Author, Kate Robinson; Gaelic translation, Seonag Monk.

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2015: Co-edited with Driscoll, S., Trace: artistic responses to Scottish archaeology (University of Glasgow & Seedbed Press)

 

2014: Sand, fire, peat, dream, Curatorial text for 'Grounded', Glasgow Commonwealth Games. ​

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Gavrilo Princip drinks a cup of coffee...(Glasgow Seedbed Press)

 

2013:  Robertson, Kate, Ed., The Art of Resistance, CARA. Lodged with Tate, Britain.

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2011: Between Us a Phoenix Arises, (Glasgow, Seedbed Press)

 

2010: Memory Attunements, translated from Andenken by Flora Rosanes (Vienna, 1920), (Glasgow: Seedbed Press)

 

2009: 'Wall', in Hidden Cities 5, ed. Jury, Rachel, (Glasgow: Dancing Rabbit Productions)

 

2007: ‘Overlapping Worlds’, Textualities 2: Science and Intuition, ed. Jennie Renton (Edinburgh, Main Point Books).​

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‘On the Pillars…’ and ‘The Ballad of Anton and Lynne’, Hidden Cities 3, ed. Jury, Rachel, (Dancing Rabbit Productions, Glasgow).​

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'Real Streams: Hildegard of Bingen’,The State of the Real, ed. Damian Sutton, Ray  Mackenzie and Sue Brind,(London: Tauris) 88-97.

 

2006: A Search for the Source of the Whirlpool of Artifice (Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press). Monograph on Italian natural philosopher, Giulio Camillo (1480-1544) 154pp.

 

2005: Making Brother Walfrid, (Celtic Football Club Supporters’ Association)

Expanding the Space of a Tent: Making the sculpture of Brother Walfrid​

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'The Celestial Streams of Giulio Camillo’, History of Science, Cambridge, 43, 321-41. (Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.)

 

2004: Reciprocal Earth, poems and images published as a set of 6 postcards; Fold Gallery, Kirkby Steven.​

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‘The Psalmist’ (short version) The Guardian Review, 18.09.04.​

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‘The Psalmist’, Modern Painters, Autumn: 22-23.​

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‘Power and Persuasion in the Theatre of Camillo’, Power and Persuasion: Sculpture in its Rhetorical Context, ed. Urszula Szulakowska (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) 37-48.​

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‘Fame with Tongue’, Reformation and Renaissance Review, 6, 107-123.

 

2003: Truman, J.; Robinson, K., Evans A.L., Smith, D.; Cunningham, L.;Millward, R.; Minnis, H.: ‘The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A pilot study of a new computer version of the self-report scale’, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 12: 9-14.​

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‘Giulio Camillo and L’idea del Theatro’, E-Sharp: Online Journal.

 

2000: Making Light Cross for Scotus College, Scottish Catholic Observer.

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1999 ed., Tall Ships, Short Stories, (Greenock Tall Ships).

 

1997 'Persephone I', 'Persephone II', and 'This', Jacobsen, F. W., Kindlen, M. and Shoemark, A., eds., Living Through Loss, (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers) 147-148.

 

1995 ed., Ae Fon Kiss, (Glasgow: Project Ability).

 

1991, adaptation of The Winter's Tale for Flying Geese Theatre Company schools' tour. 

 

1990 In Ms. Aristotle’s Garden, (Glasgow: Glasgow Museum & Art Gallery).​