Katy Wickremesinghe, Art World Expert and Business Leader

Founder of the innovative culture platform The Wick, Katy Wickremesinghe, joins us for this week’s episode of Young at Art for a dive into her career as an art consultant and leader in business. Katy shares with us the story of why she founded The Wick, as well as her art consultancy company KTW London, which aims to show businesses the importance of art in everyday life. She discusses her role as a trustee of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and why public art is so important in our everyday lives.
Katy gives us a private tour of the art in her home (which she fabulously refers to as the ‘Wicks Fondazione’) and explains how the art that she collects shows the close relationships between her and some of her favourite artists. 
The episode ends reflecting on the events of the last two years – the global pandemic and the war in Ukraine – and Katy tells us why art is so important to her in times of uncertainty.
Katy mentions two exhibitions in the episode, firstly Dulwich picture Gallery’s exhibition Reframed: The Woman in the Window (tickets can be purchased here) and also London’s dedicated public art walk, The Line, (more information can be found here).
 
Harry Stevens is the host of Young at Art and is a 21-year-old art and interiors obsessive passionate about opening up the art world to all. At Young at Art Harry speaks to the tastemakers who are defining a new image of art and design today, with new episodes out weekly. 
If you enjoyed this episode and want to find who we will be speaking to next, you can follow the podcast on Instagram @youngatartpodcast. Today’s guest Katy Wickremesinghe can be found on Instagram at @misskatywick, and our host Harry can be found at @planetstevens. For more information about the podcast, please visit the website, www.youngatartpodcast.com
The podcast’s cover art was drawn by Beatrice Ross, @beatricealiceross and the intro music was written and performed by Maggie Talibart, @maggie_talibart.